TeresaA

I went to the last day sale at a little quilt shop in my area.

And I binged.

I bought 11 Marti Michell template sets, including her multi-kite ruler (which will work for my Dresdenish circles that I want to do because it has half-kites that are 11.5 degree angles!). I also bought a couple sizes of her hexagon template sets, a 60 degree diamond tool, a 45 degree diamond tool and her corner tool for blunting triangle corners so you can fit them to squares without guessing the center. (I know I can do 60 and 45 degree diamonds with a straight ruler, but the templates make them mindless, plus offer some patterns and things that I hadn't thought of.) I bought one set that gives the square in a square dimensions for my storm at sea, so I'm set there. Oh, I also bought her 45 degree kaleido-ruler. All of these rulers and templates were 70% off! so I spent no more than $7 for a set, and many were only $3 or so. But did I need all these templates? Probably about as much as a hole in my head. Some were duplicative blunders, but for what I saved on the ones that I REALLY wanted, I guess a few blunders are okay, especially since the shop was an hour away and I didn't really want to drive back because I had regrets about not buying something.

They had a demo Clover applique iron in new condition. I've always wanted one. $3.50.

They had some of the Clothworks Seedpackets fabric. I love gardening. I bought the remainder of a bolt of one that I can hand-dye. $1.50/yd. I didn't buy any of the others. I have a LOT of fabric.

But I binged. And I spent the budget that I'd laid aside for some other tools that I want. It's not that I can't buy those tools anyway, it's just that the sensible side of me doesn't want to.

How do you approach going out of business sales? They feel like once in a lifetime opportunities for me, but I seem to get things I may or may not need, just because I don't want to lose out on the opportunity. How do you prioritize?