So when the e-mail arrived from guild president reporting a yard sale with loads of fabric, it was easy to say ...'have more than enough. don;t need more'. That was Friday.
Saturday afternoon, another e-mail arrived reporting on a trek to the home and the result..... tons of fabric, bolts of fabric... and cheap prices. still.... how much fabric can you store??
Sunday morning, i realized the home was only a few miles from mine..i decided to take a trip over to check it out. Yes, a mistake i knew. I actually checked to see what sort of money i had to play with (mistake #2).
The deceased had a mini fabric store in her well appointed basement, and a nice sewing studio too. The kindly daughter, Denise, drive down from NYC to try and sell off some of the overflow from her mom's house. cotton fabric, now going for between $7 to $10 a yard was being sold for about 3 yards for $1. ok... so how could you pass that up?!
There were two guild members there, both with armloads of bolts of fabric. This was the second trip for one who brought the other along. I started to wonder what had been there, if the reports of what had been purchsed were true. (One member reported 150 yards of fabric for $50)
Plan, plan... i needed a plan.... i decided to look for medium/light colors and yardage to use as backings for projects. as i started to pull stuff from the shelves, another guild member arrived and we laughed at our inability to pass up a bargain, fabric, and more stuff we really did not need. (did i mention this was all before 9a.m.??) once i had an arm load, i paid for my purchases and headed to the car. Two more guild members arrived.
I did not measure and wash (it smells of cigarettes). will definitely want to see what my $30 brought.
for now.. here is a photo of my bargains...
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