And here is me feeling like a total skinflint here!
I misread a notice at Woolfest in June, cotton print material @ £3-50! I thought, wow, what a bargain: I'll have 2 metres of it please. When the feller said £14! I nearly dropped.
Why do they put the price so large and not tell you it is half a metre price? So yes, £7 a metre is my dearest to date, but I am very tempted to pay more if the design is special. And I love Harris Tweed, but when I last saw some at the Rheghed centre it was nearer to £60 per metre! But gorgeous. (that's what set me off buying a RH loom and weaving my own material, not very successfully to date, I might add!
But this sewing lark is growing on me....fast.
ETA:
Ahhh I nearly forgot! I visited a fabric outlet a couple of weeks ago and paid £9.00 per metre for some gorgeous Liberty print lawn cotton.