QUILTING & YARD SALES
07-15-2011, 09:40 AM
#51
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Thursday, I went to a Living Estate Sale and found most everything overpriced. Then under a table I saw a box that looked like maybe fabric. I checed it out and most was cotton fabric with a lot of checks. It was $2.00 so I took it without looking real close thinking I would find a few yards of usable fabric. When I got home and started going through it, serging so I could wash it I came up with over 30 yards. Makes it pretty cheap per yard, huh?
07-15-2011, 10:11 AM
#52
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Location: Oklahoma
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where can I start. I got my oval hoop on a stand, just about all my material, some pkgs of batting (unopened) just about all my books, In fact the only thing I have gotten at the stores is my machine, needles, thread and most of my batting. You might say I'm a yard sale quilter.
07-15-2011, 10:31 AM
#53
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Originally Posted by Landers
No I don't look at yeard sales & I have found that there is nothing that helps my addiction. I made a New Year's resolution to not buy any fabric until my trip to St. Louis this September. Well I have broken that resolution 7 times!!!
07-15-2011, 10:39 AM
#55
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Mid-Michigan
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Originally Posted by jaciqltznok
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!
You are right. I've been to a few held by family, and they know how to move the stuff out. You dig and poke around and they look at all the stuff yer holding and give you a "Take it and Git" price.
Others want more than brand new, and then most others in my area, like the "professional" one I went to a month ago wanted $180 for a set of used sheets. I don't care if they tied em in a bow, they are still used, and don't think if they were priced right, that I wouldn't untie that bow, and inspect them first!
I betcha they had 90% of everything left over after the sale.
and dontcha hate when the sign saya estate sale, and you find it's a garage sale? Fisher Price, and everything - except what we go to estate sales to buy.
07-15-2011, 10:51 AM
#56
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: upstate rural NY
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I do go to yard sales. I just got about five yards of cotton which i will probably use for backing for $5. I just got a Rowenta iron at the Salvation Army for $6. I got my 301a at a junk shop. I found a Singer fashion mate for a friend for $5. and a friend found a better one for $12. We are going to start a quilt class for newbies so cheap supplies come in handy.
I learned to stick to quilt shops for my top fabric. I have been burned by low quality stuff.
I learned to stick to quilt shops for my top fabric. I have been burned by low quality stuff.
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