Originally Posted by D'Marie
Oldswimmer, you're my kind of person.I like to look for bargains and unusual places to get them.IWe used to go to auctions because sometimes you can get whole boxes of quilt materials there for as cheap as $o.50. I figure it's not to see how much you can spend on making a quilt but how little you can make a nice quilt for.We used to have a sewing factory,in our town,and you could get boxs of nice scraps or sometimes even yards of nice material cheap.Good thing I have a large house because I have boxs of scraps saved for quilts. Course I share them with friends.
Oh..... auctions... that used to be a really addictive habit. I was a regular at our Wed night auctions. It has the same comraderie as quilting friends, except maybe a little more competitive. Three years ago there was an auction of a quilt store that went out of business. Oh my, you should have seen those quilters bid! We all ended up with plenty of bolts, and later I would find them in the dealer booths at the flea market, so picked up even more! About the same time there was an auciton of an upholstery shop, and I came home with large rolls of old barkcloth and 1930's & 40's fabric. Had to go all 3 days, but I satisfied my addiction! Last week at Goodwill, I found a plastic bag full of what look like feedsack scraps. When I got it home and opened it (they wrap up lots of scraps or pieces in a plastic bag and tape it with almost a roll of tape to close it) I found it was 8 feedsacks that had not even had the string taken out of the sides yet. Fully intact feedsacks! Actually, probably flour sacks... the 25 pounders! D'Marie we would have FUN together! Peggy
The most expensive for me is having them LA quilted. I have to become more confident in quilting them on my machine!