SusieQOH

I buy a lot from Missouri Star Quilt Company and they have great sales and all-over good pricing. I've never gotten bad fabric from them. There are a few others I like but they are my main source.
It's pretty easy for me because I like certain fabric lines so I always know what i'm getting (at least so far)

OneBusyGranny

we have quiet a few thrift stores here and they all carry fabrics. first place I go to in the store. Find some great bargains.

Wanabee Quiltin

Yes, fabric is cheap here if you are on the lookout for it. Hobby Lobby has coupons and their fabric is very good. I shop thrift stores and my stash from there is tremendous. I also have bought beautiful name brand fabric at flea markets. My local quilt store sells name brand fabric at $10.99 a yard but end of bolts and unpopular fabric get a flat rate of $6.99. I have made lovely quilts from these end bolts. We were in Canada at a huge store and I just couldn’t pay for even one yard of fabric, it was horrendously expensive. I usually buy from online stores now with flat shipping of $5. Wish you all had our cheap rates.

Boston1954

I believe that anything less than $11 a yard is pretty good. I've found some good buys over the years, but I have also had a lot given to me by my sister. Now that is a bargain.

charley26

I do not buy any pre-cuts, they are very expensive, especially Moda and some other brands.
I will buy FQs (in a matched group) occasionally, especially if I attend a quilt show - Malvern, for instance. Have you heard of Doughty's? I am lucky to live nearby, they are also online, and have lovely fabric. But, I find a lot of the fabric I use in charity shops and sales, I repurpose a lot of fabric too, so perhaps I am looking through rose tinted specs with regard to fabric prices.
Cheap fabric is cheap fabric, and the people who make it are probably paid very little too.

dee1245

I usually shop at Joann's with coupons or on sale, Hobby Lobby, their's is always 30% off the list price on quilting fabric, at least at my local store, and Walmart, they carry Waverly fabric at $2.99 for solids and $3.99 for the prints. Waverly started out in upholstery and drapery fabrics. When I purchase online, it is usually through Connecting Threads. They have a lot of sales and I usually purchase their batting at a really good price. I don't have the extra funds to purchase through the local QS, unless it is the only place I can get a needed fabric or from the sales room reduced to 4 or 5 dollars.

Becky's Crafts

When we visit our family in New Hampshire, we go to certain thrift shops. At just one last year, I got 15 yards of good quilting cotton for $3.50! I also buy from GoodWill and I shop online sales. If I see a shop that carries the fabrics I like, I sign up for the newsletters & get notice of any sales. Anything over 30% off I look at, but the prices need to be cheap as I'm on a fixed income. I have also been blessed with lots of fabric from friends who quilt & don't want their scraps. It gives me lots of choices.

MrsWiggs

A friend and I go to the quilt show in Paducah, Kentucky every April. We go to Eleanor Burns Quilt in a day shop where she has fabric for $5.50 a yard. We stock up for the year. Good quality though it may be last years fabric. To me beautiful fabric is never out of date. We also go to Hancock’s of Paducah- a fabric shop that covers about 1/2 acre. Their fabric runs from $6.00 upto $16.00.

tuckyquilter

I pay about $10.99 to $13.99 depending on what I'm using it for. It's good quality. I think the difference is that we have so many choices of where to buy that makes the difference. There's a place about an hour south of me that has top quality fabric for $2.98 a yard. I want to go back. But I do mostly scrap quilting with Other Peoples Scraps. My friend all give me there stuff.

doris.meek13088

Joann's Fabrics does carry some higher quality fabrics and usually have at least one coupon going at a time. Most of the time that I do shop at a quilt store it is because we are on holiday and my husband likes to let me wander in them. He usually picks out more expensive fabrics than I do without a special need. I do have a large stash but figure that I will not be able to buy much after I retire in 4 years. I was able to go back to Austria about 4 years ago and found that decent fabric was very expensive there.