Originally Posted by
ibex94
QuiltersSon -- I am very sorry for the loss of your mom and brother. That is rough. Your mother's work is beautiful! When you start to organize the fabric piles try to keep projects together with their patterns if there are any left undone. Keep yardage separate from scraps. It is just easier to organize and keep track of things that way for selling. Rulers with rulers, thread with thread... you get the feeling right? You work with wood so keeping like materials together should be instinctive for you. As you box or bag things up, make sure you label it so you don't have to reopen it to remember what it is. That long arm is HUGE! I am sure someone may have mentioned contacting the manufacturer to find out if they have someone you should contact to resell it. I think Iceblossom's link to long arm University will get you the biggest bang for your buck but I don't know how quickly things sell on that site.
Some of the quilt stores in the area may be interested in purchasing some of her yardage or might even allow you to consign some items with them to sell. There is no fast or easy without an estate sale person taking care of it for you. Keep getting the word out. I hope you get some help soon. Thank you for sharing your mom's talent!!
Thank you, I don't think the entirety of the loss has set in yet - it feels like I'm on a spinning top and something keeps winding me up to go and go and go, Very strange feeling, can't put my finger on it, feels like the edge of sadness with just enough depression sprinkled on top to let me know more is coming.
Like that.
My mom seemed to be very organized -
I think. Here's a couple in a LONG row of shelves of, well, I don't know what you call it, umm, cut fabric??
About 15 more of these [
said the man banging his head on the table over and over again...]
And of course, rulers:
Right, feels like she was organized - yes, no??
The estate sale seems stupid at this point. I just found out today that I don't have to sell her house for maybe as long as 6 months so that should give me a decent amount of time to reach out to all the different places you guys have suggested.
I can't start calling anybody till next week, I'm zipping back to LA tomorrow then I've got a trade show in MI (The Battery Show, in case any of you guys are going to find yourself in MI this coming week, you know, we could get together and talk about batteries and thread and bobbins and quilts and EVs and stuff...).
Ugh