QUILTING & YARD SALES
07-15-2011, 04:19 AM
#31
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Location: Yankton South Dakota
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Love Yard sales, and when you bring your stash home, it is like Christmas. I particularly love finding someone elses UFOs and pieces, because you can think of where you want to put them when you finish them. My DH doesn't even mind anymore since I had used up a lot of my stash over the last few years and haven't recooped it yet. LOL
07-15-2011, 04:46 AM
#33
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Location: South Carolina
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Same here, but I think I'll put that on my list of things to do. Maybe I can be as lucky. I have bought at goodwill on dollar day, shirts, skirts, etc. that was made from the perfect fabric for something I was planning. Another shopper asked what size are you looking for, I said the biggest that is made of a fabric I like. She thought I was crazy. Maybe I am, but HAPPY being so.
ditto here also...never been that lucky
Originally Posted by mjsylvstr
Originally Posted by owlvamp
I have never been to a yard sale that had fabric or any quilting stuff.
07-15-2011, 05:20 AM
#34
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Location: Perth Ontario Canada
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Originally Posted by craftybear
When I was in Shipshewana last month I got a big box of quilting magazines for $2.00 the whole box
also another big box of quilting books for $3.00 the whole box
I was doing the happy dance
also found an Amish glider chair for $10.00 regular $499.00 or higher
also another big box of quilting books for $3.00 the whole box
I was doing the happy dance
also found an Amish glider chair for $10.00 regular $499.00 or higher
07-15-2011, 05:21 AM
#35
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Location: league city, texas
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i love yard sales, thrift stores, anywhere i can get fabric cheap....i just to do the 'burn' test on the fabric, and the cottons go to the quilting pile, and the blends go to the other pile (still can be used for all sorts of things!!)....yard sales are the best friend a quilter has.....
07-15-2011, 05:25 AM
#36
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Originally Posted by PrettyCurious
Yards sales are fun. Estate sales not so much. They are alway too pricey, and held by those snobby "professional" folks who think yer money isn't good enough anyway. I know it's gonna be a bad one when I see several folks leaving without a thing in their hands.
If you need it, you will find it at a garage/yard sale!
If you need it, you will find it at a garage/yard sale!
but they are ALL fun! Lots of really OLD vintage stuff around here!
07-15-2011, 05:45 AM
#38
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Location: Yorkville, IL
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Originally Posted by luvTooQuilt
you can find just about anything.. fabric, notions, machines.. you just need to be at the right place at the right time..
I was fortunate to get real feedsacks in an auction ( 3 boxes) for $30.
I was fortunate to get real feedsacks in an auction ( 3 boxes) for $30.
07-15-2011, 06:11 AM
#39
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Location: Wisconsin
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With the state of the economy with prices going up and the quanity packaging going down, we quilters have to go back to the depression years and learn a lesson. I don't recall any garage sales back then, but I do remember friends exchanging clothing that still had some useable fabric and scraps, even the smallest ones. I also remember a shortage of sewing thread. Rather than cutting off the end of a needle full of thread, the ladies in my mother's quilting club would make a knot that would pull through the fabric and end up somewhere in the batting by tying the end of the sewing thread to the free end off the spool. Some ladies even quilted off the spool for a whole block, then did the tying as the stitching got too long to pull any more thread through.
Were those the "Good old Days." I really don't remember, I was born in 1928 so was too young to realize whether they were good times or bad times.
I am making up a box of small scraps (less than 4 inches). If anyone is interested, I will mail them for the price of the postage.
Send PM to me. First come, first serve.
Were those the "Good old Days." I really don't remember, I was born in 1928 so was too young to realize whether they were good times or bad times.
I am making up a box of small scraps (less than 4 inches). If anyone is interested, I will mail them for the price of the postage.
Send PM to me. First come, first serve.
07-15-2011, 06:13 AM
#40
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Location: Traverse City, Michigan
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I try to hit estate sales or "Mother going to nursing home sale" The Savation Army store. Then, in the RV park we are in during the winter, peopleknow that I make charity quilt and they bring me their stuff.. I must live to 150 years in order to use my stash in two homes
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