Thursday, May 26, 2011

Big stash increase! Garage Sale Finds

Today a friend called me to tell me that she spotted some fabric at a garage sale.  She said they had little bundles for $1.  I was curious and thought I would check out the lead.  This is what I got:

I roughly measured it by holding it the length of my arm (which is a generous yard.)  There is over SIXTY yards of fabric here.  I paid under $20 for it.  That's less than 33 cents per yard!!!  A lot of it seems to be in one, two, three, four, and even a six yard piece.  I am guessing it is from the 80's and 90's by the writing on the salvage pieces.  I think there are two vintage sheets in here.  I can tell the fabric from the bolt easily by the salvage.  Here are some of my favorites:
The flowers are about the size of a dime.  I should have put a quarter on the stuff...

I think this is an upholstery fabric.  It will make a great bag soon.

Some Christmas stuff...  There's over four yards of the Santa fabric.  I'll have to think hard how to use that.

Interesting print with the elephants on the bottom???  All in all it was a great day.  I didn't even clear the lady's table.  There were several polyesters and some corderoy there.  But it will be fun figuring out where to use these.  I have a feeling I won't need to buy a back for the next Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt.  Wonder when that will come out.  Can't wait!

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For a really cool raceday jellyroll challenge go to
http://blog.1choice4quilting.com/2011/05/ladies-and-gentlemenget-ready-to-start.html?showComment=1306484939420#c1557265693813324777

It sounds like a lot of fun.  I hope I can fit it in this weekend during nap time!

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Tales At Wayne Manor is having a giveaway.  You could win a whole box of fabric.

3 comments:

Linda said...

What a lucky find!!
Is there a chance the upholstery fabric has only dots on the back? This looks very familiar. It looks the the back of some upholstery fabric I once had. It had the stripes on the wrong side and little dots of color on the right side.

Melinda said...

excellent haul!

Lynette said...

Wow - Love the elephant fabric!