Savers Thrift store bonanza!!!
 

Soooooooo, I went to Savers on Thursday (25% off in our area).......... and NO ONE was there, to save me from myself. They had bags of fabric. Now I have not been buying fabric for anything but backing and borders for a long time, BUT I got almost 250 yards plus a grocery bag full of scraps all for $90 total. It was kind of evenly divided between flannel, novelty cottons and quilting cottons. My wash machine is going to go haywire, and I going to have to find space to put it away. hehehe

How fun!!!

good catch!

Have fun putting up your fabric. Now your backing and border fabrics have more friends to play with! https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images...es/biggrin.png

You really hit the jackpot. Way to go.

What a jackpot....lucky woman!! I always measure any new material that is bought and then put a string tag (with a small safety pin) on a selvage with the yardage and where I got it. If you cut a section off for a quilt, remeasure what is left and put this new measurement on the tag. Saves me a lot of frustration when wondering if I have enough left over for a certain project.

We don't have a Savers in our area but when I went to declutter my fabric stash a year ago, I took 7 large brown paper bags full of fabrics and 1 whole bag of just scraps. Never saw any of them hit the shelves so either the workers in the back grabbed them or they went to the ladies that make quilts for the disabled. I did find a couple pieces of dress fabrics at one of their other stores in another town about 6 months later though. Fabrics go quickly here as we no longer have a fabric store in town other than Walmart's and I won't buy from them.

Enjoy your new purchases and have fun with it

lindaschipper what a great idea, I usually put where I got it so I can look for more if needed. That only works if it came from a store though, but I do know not to use it if it's not big enough. Putting the amount on the tag would save time when pulling fabric. Thanks.

Oh what a stash bash you must be having! Have fun with all your new treasures.

I've done this also. Quite often though, I write measurement on selvage with permanent marker(paper behind in case of bleeding, but hasn't bled yet). Re-mark or cross off and indicate new measurement when needed.

I also write info on the selvedges with any handy sharpies :) Sometimes I will write on a scrap of paper or I have packages of tags for like yard sales and will pin those. I use brass safety pins for that, or just pin the selvedge.

I made some good scores in my Goodwill rounds today, enough of a beach themed Alexander Henry print for a quilt back -- just when I had decided on a beach themed top earlier this morning!

There were more things that tempted me and none of what I got was on sale, but still several pieces of usable yardage and a piece to my Pfaltzgraff Yorktowne dishes that I didn't already have.

Great plan. I do this too but I write yardage on stiff paper then staple to selvage.

I'm glad nobody was there to save you from yourself! LOL
Great haul, good for you! :)

oh, good buys are always so fun. sighhhh! Between staying home these past few years and having to look at my huge stash...I have been avoiding going places that will tempt me. I so would like to go on my state's shop hop this year,....but....I already have quite a stash of past "state shop hop" fabric. There are a few fabrics that look like they would be really fun. I already bought not one but two new machines during the shutdowns both of which can embroider so I am attempting to learn how to do that on each of them. I have embroidered in the past, but none since my old "floppy" embroidery machine. so yep, is a learning curve now.

That was your lucky day for sure. Have fun with all that fabric.https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images...es/thumbup.png

Nice score of fabric for you!