Your best quilting related garage sale or market find--
#1
I am just wondering. I love to go to sales every Sat I can. I have found so many wonderful items over the years. I truly feel blessed as this past weekend I found an embroidery machine for $50 in great working condition. A Brother PE 150. I know it is a bottom line but we all have to start somewhere. I have found wonderful fabrics & notions as well. But I feel this was probably my best quilt related bargain.
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You did good. My best buy was a Montgomery sewing machine for $2.00 no pressure foot, I figured if it didn't work I would decorate it. It turns out it does work and it works great.
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Ontario, Canada
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My best buy at garage sale was a featherweight for $45. The guy selling it was forever wheeling and dealing and selling "stuff" at fairly frequently held garage sales. He was always bragging about the $ he was collecting but he obviously knew nothing about featherweights. I cheerfully forked over the cash and didn't let on how thrilled I was. The funniest part was about three months later, he phoned me about buying another featherweight at $45. I snapped up that one too. Now both my daughters have a featherweight and my oldest is cranking out "snoods" for her Cavalier dogs (my avatar Molly is a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel) to keep those long ears out of doggie dinners.
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Austin, Texas
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Great garage sale finds:
- a real gold bracelet for 25 cents. It was in a box of junk jewelry.
- a med sized cutting mat for 25 cents.
- an old ('50's type) black leather motorcycle jacket with all the zippers for $25. That was back in 1979 and hubby still has it (not sure it still fits him, though)
- a real gold bracelet for 25 cents. It was in a box of junk jewelry.
- a med sized cutting mat for 25 cents.
- an old ('50's type) black leather motorcycle jacket with all the zippers for $25. That was back in 1979 and hubby still has it (not sure it still fits him, though)
#10
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Mableton, GA
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1. An elnita all metal sewing machine for $10 in perfect working order, all parts and manual
2. A vintage singer electric in a mahogany cabinet, all parts and in perfect working order - $24.98
3. Huge box of quilting fabrics $5.00 which I shared with my quilting buddies.
4. Box of scraps cut into approx. 5" squares from which I made an entire quilt top. $4.75
I am hoping to stumble upon a featherweight.
2. A vintage singer electric in a mahogany cabinet, all parts and in perfect working order - $24.98
3. Huge box of quilting fabrics $5.00 which I shared with my quilting buddies.
4. Box of scraps cut into approx. 5" squares from which I made an entire quilt top. $4.75
I am hoping to stumble upon a featherweight.
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