Another great way to save on fabric costs is to join a quilt guild! In pre-pandemic times, my quilt guild had lots of smaller pieces of fabric (left-overs) that people could take for free. Larger pieces (often donated by shops) were reserved for people to sewing "comfort quilts" to be given away by the guild. Plus, you can make friends with folks who might be happy to pass along their left overs to you. (Some people love saving scraps for future projects, and some folks are happy to get all the scraps of a project out of the house once the project is done.) My guild is looking at doing everything on-line for the next 9 months, but some day we will meet in person again!