Some people are just lucky! I have been to one quilter's estate sale and purchased fabrics but many of the more senior quilters quilters (I just can't say old quilters) designate their stash to organizations that use them for charity quilts. Our guild has received many generous donations and we have made hundreds of quilts for local hospitals, organizations that temporarily house people going through transition, re-hab hospitals and the like. But we seldom come across finds like I've read about here. Same goes with sewing machines. A part of me is very jealous but then I don't have the storage space and I simply don't want to be the winner - you know, the one who dies with the most fabric. So I'm trying to us what I have first and I think that's what we are all trying to do.