Originally Posted by BellaBoo
A good budget stretcher is to go to a thrift shop and buy men's cotton shirts to cut up. The shirts have the best plaids and small prints that's hard to find. If you buy shirting fabric in a quilt shop, if you can find it, it's very expensive.
So true - go on their 1/2 off days and those xxlarge shirts give you a lot of fabric for little money.