Guess what I just found!
I was walking to the subway from work and I found 12 copies of American Quilter on the street. The issues are from the 80s and 90s. They're full of amazing pictures, stories, patterns. It felt like someone left them there just for me!
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Oh how fun ! and something relaxing to read on the subway :)
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excellent find! you were blessed.
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better than finding a dollar bill or change!!
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What a wonderful surprise!
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Wow! What a great find! It will be fun to see what was hot in quilting a decade or two ago...
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Wow thats so weird !
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Great find!! And here I thought I got lucky when a guild had a sale and I bought a mess of them ... four for a quarter. Free is always better!
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You will see how things have changed in the quilting world. Lots of changes, for the better.
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I have a really nice friend that I met on the board that has been giving me her old magazines from 2006-2012. She put a note on the board a couple of years ago, and every once in a while she will email me to pick some up. I'm talking about fifty at a time. I am loving life.
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Unfortunately, I couldn't get a seat!
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The quilting fairy smiled on you!
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What a treasure! I could read quilting magazines all day and never get to my machine. Kind of like cookbooks, I never make it to the kitchen either.
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WOW! My niece went to a resale shop and got me a stack also. It's so much fun looking at the ads too! You can see the companies and products that have stood the test of time.
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A lucky find for you. I have some of my old quilt magazines that I go through from time to time and lots of things have changed, but many patterns, etc. have stayed the same. So glad you found them.
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Awesome find Sarah! Have fun with them!
BTW I love your avatar; the cats have a sort of yin and yang and heart-shaped theme going on. Slightly modified they might make a cute design for an applique...hmm.... Are they your cats? |
They're not - my cats don't get along that well!
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What a fun find. If you decide to make any of the quilts, I hope you will show pictures!! Enjoy!!
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How lucky for you!!
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Cool! It so fun to find things let alone things that you treasure.
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My son lives in Brooklyn & often finds "treasures" that have been put on the curb for anyone to take (a daughter lives in a large city in CA. & they do the same thing there) every once in a while he'll call about a curb side sewing machine to check if it is one he should rescue for me.
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The Quilt Gods were looking down on you.
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I bet there's an avid quilter out there somewhere racking her brain trying to remember where she put them down!
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I think an angel from heaven knew you would take good care of them. Congrats on your find.
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That is fantatic! Now you have a true treasure....
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There are so many patterns that are still the same over the decades, just made with different colors. Should give you a lot of inspiration. Have fun.
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How strange! LOL! But good for you.
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Sometimes the "old" tips are the best tips in the magazines. Then sometimes one scratches their head and wonders !LOL
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What a great find. I'm sure it will be a lot of fun to look through them and see what kind of quilt patterns they were making 10 and 20 years ago.
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I bought about 25 at The Bennington Quilt Festival for .50 a piece. They are fantastic.
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What a treasure you found
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You are so blessed! They were for you to find!
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SCORE!!!! What a find!
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Clapping for you!!!!! Yup those magazine issues were just waiting for you to pic them up!
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Enjoy your treasure!!
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What a great find, enjoy your new stash of magazines hope you can find some great quilting patterns.
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That was my thought, then my second thought was can't wait to read all the posts to see if someone claims them and can prove it. Now, wouldn't that be something!
I have been to many many sales with sewing items and never found anything for the prices many of you have posted. Around here they want $2-3 each. Fair price I suppose but have to save those pennies for the fabric. |
WOW...that was a great find! I hope you had a good time reading those books...Did your bucket list grow?
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