My husband has time to hit the yard sales more that I do but I go when I can. He loves looking for old west junk :wink: This morning he went to a sale that had some bags of fabric. Not knowing exactly what I use he just bought it all ....for 5.00!!! He came home with about 10 Walmart bags stuffed tight! I went thru it and most of it was new yardage or large scraps I can use....some will go in my next sale. :) BUT...when I got to the very last bag in the very bottom was a old brown paper sack. I was almost scared to stick my hand in! :shock: I pulled out what you see in the pictures below. Need I say more!! :!:

I have really GOT to start going to yard sales. Those are beautiful!

They are hand stitched by the way....tiny stitches!

What a fantastic find - can you send some of your local yards to Ireland please? You seem to find great bargains.

Wow!!! That is one terrific find!
They look like they are made with old material.

Beautiful dresden plates!

I don't know if I'm allowed to say on here but these are for sale. All I wanted was the fabric. You can pm me if interested.

looks like feed sack blocks, I have some and they are some of the same fabrics! Great Find!!!

you lucky girl, you!!!

WHAT!!!???? A hubby that buys fabric for you? I want one of those! Ha ha ha ...
Nice find! I am sure one of these gals will snap it up from you quickly.

I go, but have never come across anything like some of the people have!

HOLY COW!!! You are hitting the mother load on these!
Sure wish I had yard sales here!

I am wishing I lived around your neighborhood!!! There's never anything like that around here!! Good for you!!!!! :D :D

Those are awesome. What a great find.

All hand done, also? That is a WONDERFUL find!

How absolutely fabulous your find is!!

Man, uou made out great. I never find good stuff like that at ours WHEN i go.

Great find. The only thing I ever find is baby clothes and toys around here.
You are going to have a beautiful quilt with those blocks.

Those are beautiful. Good work, hubby!

Your Hubby is definatley a keeper ! I never find anything that good around here . Have fun with all the new fabric and remember we will be watching to see what you make :shock:
Sharon

Those are so pretty. I'm happy for you.

You must make a quilt with those beautiful blks.keep someones great hand work going on, wow-wow

Those are beautiful! And you are willing to sell them? You DON"T want them! :?

WOW! Those are beautiful. How do you put those together to make a quilt? Do you have to applique them onto a chosen background?

Wow! Great hubby to get these for you. Here is my story: I went to a fabric yard sale a few years ago. My sister and her hubby hit the yards almost every weekend. She saw a this one in the newspaper yard sale postings and told me about this one, about 28 miles from where I live. It was to die-for, older lady moving and her grandkids are helping with the yard sale, helping downsize the fabrics she collected. $5 a plastic bag full, all you could stuff into a Walmart size bag. A few scraps but most were from a yard to 3 yards. I stuffed $25 dollars worth of great material. I wasn't the only fabric-crazed lady there, several other die-hard-get-up-at-the-crack-of-dawn were there too. Even some sewing tools. Just as I was loading my treasures into the car, the older lady came out and she was yelling at her grandkids. They had taken a lot from her "keep pile" and some of it had already sold and left. Oh, she was upset with those kids. Me? I got quickly out of Dodge City.

I'm interested!!! Pleas email me at [email protected]

I don't know how to pm you but I would love to have these. Like you I don't know if this kind of thing is supposed to be done here. please contact me so we can talk about it. :mrgreen: :D

I like your Yard sales. We have nothing like that around here.

If they are not spoken for yet please e-mail me [email protected]. I will be happy to give them a new home. Thank you

how wonderful that these fell into a quilter's hands. Now you can preserve this beautiful work.

they don't have yard sales like that around here, another great find for you, have fun and tell us all your stories very interesting keep up the good work!

All I can say is, WOW! What a great find!

I need to start going to yard sales and garage sales.

Go to the web site:
sewitsforsale and list it.
Seems like everything sells in a few minutes. I have got some great buys on that site.

What is the exact url? I googled sewitsforsale and all kinds of sites comes up. :?


Go to the web site:
sewitsforsale and list it.
Seems like everything sells in a few minutes. I have got some great buys on that site. [/quote]

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SewItsForSale/
It's a group that you join free.
They can only list sewing items, like book, sewing machines, fabric, etc.
I have purchases several things on the site.

What a find, I think it was destined to fall into a quilters hands. I find sewing notions and some great quilting material at my local thrift store .25 to .50 cents apiece(you can tell when someone has donated from an estate sale)but never anything like that, gorgeous!

I think I'll come go "yard-sailing" with you!

Hey, if your looking to do something with the dresdens, there's a new book out called "thouoghtly modern dresden". Writin by "Amelie Belden". Check it out. zeke...............

Fantastic.... :-)

what a great find, some one really did not know what they were doing. you are so lucky. :mrgreen: