You gals don't know how lucky some of you are. To have decent quilting fabric within an hour is awesome. My closest LQS is approx 1hr 45mins each direction. But there are 3-4 shops in that area, so, when I go, I stock up with patterns or ideas in hand. However, fabric here(Moda, KonaBay, Seaside or the better ones), all run between 14.95 and 26.95 per metre, I kid you not. I wish there was such a place to buy more reasonably priced material. Oh well!! we do what we got to do...right? Even when I had my shop a couple of years ago, fabric was anywhere between 12.95 & 18.95 a metre.