On Saturday morning I went to a fabric sale, wheweee what a sale it was! I do have to say though it was bittersweet as some family lost a love one that resulted in this sale. I did not know the lady or her family but it was sad anyway. But the family can know that her things are going on to be used in loads of other homes now. They had to use a Uhaul truck to bring stuff over from the house to the American Legion where they held the sale. It was only from 10am-3pm. I don't think there was any way they could have sold it all as my friend was there around 1pm and she said there was lots left. Maybe they will decide to do another sale!
So the deal was $1 a yd. for flat folds and $5 for a bolt no matter how many yds. were on it. There must have been 100 bolts, and table after table of flatfolds. YIKES I have/had no willpower!! How do you not want to just pick up everything in site. Think tons of backing fabrics for one thing. I found several pieces for backgrounds. Most are not modern, although, some of the bright colors would work. I did find a modern bright good for my donation quilts and a piece of light grey tone on tone. There was Christmas, floral, tone on tone. They did a good job of sorting them by color or theme. I wish I would have ran to the batik table(if I had known which one it was) as they were only $2 a yd. You had to take the whole piece, no cutting was happening at all. Some pieces I got were 5 yds some a little more. You also had to measure your own piece and use the honor system and tell the cashier how many yds you had. Oh and then they had finished quilts on 3 tables and antique quilts, all hand stitched, on another table.
Just look at all my goodies... I am a very happy quilter. Wantta know how much fabric there is on my ironing board???? Take a guess now. I am lucky I have a supportive DH as he just saw stacks of nicely folded fabric, but then when I told him how many yards I bought his eyes almost popped out, LOL. Now the thing is I have to find a place to store it all!! I plan to use some today, I have runners that need quilting so I'll use some for backings, that will help bring the pile down a bit, haha.
So I came home, petted, fondled, refolded and wound everything around my 6" ruler to make them all nice and tidy. So what would you have done, buy lots and lots or not?????? Ok I'll tell ya, there is about 120 yds. I didn't unwind and measure the bolts as we didn't have to do that at the sale since they were just flat out $5 a bolt. I could have easily bought twice that as I am kinda nutty that way!
Just a reminder that the Island Batik Ambassadors have wrapped up their April projects but one of the ladies was kind enough to post links too all of them. So if you are wondering what other projects were made for the month you can check them out below.
Linking to a few of the parties on the left side bar.
Henry Glass Fabrics has a Desire to Inspire challenge, and for March they picked me!!!! The fabric arrived yesterday(Friday). It was like Christmas seeing what all was in the box.
