my awesome thrift store score!
 

Wow, while I was visiting my family in Ohio, I hit a Village Thrift Store and scored big time! I got 7.5 yards of pink with tiny white leaves and stems, 4 yds. of blue and pink floral, 4 of small yellow floral, 4 of dress weight denim, a new queen size navy blue sheet, a twin sheet in narrow yellow stripe and a twin in narrow tan stripe. All this for only $8.00!!! Six of the pieces were marked $1.50 and most were half-priced color tickets. The 7 1/2 yd. pink piece was marked $2.00.
I am attaching a photo of my score although the white on the pink doesn't really show up, nor does the narrow white stripes on the yellow and tan sheets, which are 100% cotton(as is the navy blue sheet).

Great score!

Sweet find!

Wow, You did great!!!!

Awesome Bargain! :thumbup:
I've found great bargains in Charity Shops and Jumble Sales. You just never know what you could find in the most unlikely place.

Good for you!! Great find!

Good for you, they look terrific. They will all be great to work with.

Great score!

Such a great feeling when it finally happens to a quilter! Enjoy your new additions to your stash.

Congrats on the great score!!

You done good! And your fabrics go welll togehter. Did you buy all there was, or pick and chose to get such a good match?

Hey that is great, makes me want to go thrift store shopping. It is amazing what you can find!

Weren't you lucky.

Good for you!

You did good!

Great haul....shop more thrift store is a good thing. Lots of great finds there.

What a find!!! Sometimes you hit them & sometimes not… I went to a local thrift store last Tues & bought 2 brand new black mens shirts. They were made by Dickie, with employee's name embroidered on by a company. I have needed black fabric for some time. Need to wash & cut up,….

Great find. There is a thrift store a couple of blocks from me, and I've been wanting to make a jean quilt and saw any jean for $2. Wish they had material, maybe one day. I'll keep looking though it's only a walk away.

Good for you!! I once got a great deal like that at a thrift shop too! I still have some of the fabrics. It was so exciting! I often stop at the thrift shop and buy clothes just to cut up fro crafts. Got a really cute wool skirt yesterday...if it had been my size I'd be wearing it... but it's not... so it will be an owl one day! I also got a cute crocheted vest that I was going to cut up to make an infinity scarf... but I tired it on... it fit .. and its cute! So I'll be wearing it for awhile first!

Fantastic find!

If this is a privately owned thrift store and not a chain like Value Village, Goodwill, etc. talk to them and they may have donations that they can't use that they would give you. I found the local Catholic charity in my home town of Dade City, FL did that for me. I asked them to save out any jeans that they couldn't use for 2 days - and they did! I didn't ask an open ended thing, or give an unreasonable amount of time, but I got plenty of jeans out of that thrift store and our spouse abuse center (I asked them to save them for 2 days). I got plenty.

Jumble sales?????? That's a phrase I've never heard before

Our church had a rummage sale last summer. Bunches of stuff left which was given to whichever thrift store that would come and get it. The gal who chaired the event, let me have all the the men's plaid shirts I wanted. In fact, I've been ripping them apart for the last few days. I also took a ton of jeans, slacks, shorts that I will be making shopping bags out of . They'll be going to a local charity. Maybe a abuse shelter or maybe Special Olympians.

My plan as of now is to make a quilt-----------the modfied snowball that has triangles only on two opposing corners------------can't think of the pattern name. It will be donated to the church's auction in April. It's name will be---------------Rummage sale 2013.

Great find on your fabrics. I visit our local thrifts pretty often for sewing supplies but I haven't hit any sales as good as yours. You can get some very good deals if you keep your eyes open.
Rodney

WOW love those kind of finds

Love the re-sale shops by any name for great items for fabrics.

GrannieAnnie, I also took a ton of jeans, slacks, shorts that I will be making shopping bags out of . They'll be going to a local charity. Maybe a abuse shelter or maybe Special Olympians.

That is a great idea to use the pants etc for bags, good mission work.

I did buy most of the cotton yardage, and picked carefully from the sheets. There were a couple pieces of yardage that were not to my liking so I left those for someone else. I always check sheets for fabric content and only buy the cotton ones.
I do find that most fabrics are mixed in with the linens and not separate, so you have to look for them. The fabrics I found were not in a group together, they were in with sheets, bedspreads and blankets.
Another good source for cotton, especially novelty prints, are XL and bigger scrubs. You usually don't lose fabric to buttonholes, etc. and with long sleeves you get a lot to work with.

Great find - congratulations!

Great score and an even greater price. I'm sure you're glad that you stopped in.

Good deal! I've always got my radar antenna out of this kind of find, but haven't found one yet.

I am tickled pink for you and your score! May it all give you hours & hours of fun. :)

Lucky lucky you

Wow, you really did score!

You "done good" lady - great find. :-)

Marysewfun

Wow,how lucky
I never find anything in our thrift stores. It makes me wonder where it all does go.

You rock girl

Well done...I love going through piles of stuff at charity shops....give me a second-hand store over a flash department store any day.

Nice find.

Great find!! Love thrift stores!!!??