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THAT IS A GREAT FIND
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Wow ... what a find indeed !! Have fun :)
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Great find. Enjoy!
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Those kind of surprise finds are worth their weight in Gold. Have fun and make a memory
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You said holy scrap! That cracks me up!
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Originally Posted by lisalisa
my local thrift store sells bundles of fabric for a dollar a bag. You never know what you're gonna get. A little of this and a little of that. They're great stash builders. Well today, for some reason, they dropped the price to 50 cents a bag so I loaded up. When I got them home I found what must be 2 or 300 orphan 9 patches. Mostly done with different fabrics. The really amazing part was that they are all hand sewn! Holy scrap. I'm blown away and sort of saddened that someone didn't get to see their project(s) completed. The stacks in the photos are the orphans. Everything else in the pics is what was in the rest of the bags.
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I think it is wonderful that someone who can do something with another quilters UFO's got this stash. I have more things started than I can finish in a lifetime. Plus I have scraps and UFO's from my X's mother and grandmother, and my mother. I sure hope a quilter gets my UFO's and stash. I enjoy the process of piecing and designing as much as the finished product.
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Good for you... what a lucky find!!!
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What a great fabric find. Have fun with it. It must have felt like Christmas while opening the bags. :-P :lol:
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It certainly turned out to by your very lucky day!
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Boy, I hear this so often i guess i better pay attention and hit the thrift stores. Good for you. Wish me luck!!!
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You hit the mother load
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Good for you and lucky too.
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Wow what a find!!!Looks like a lot of fun to me!!!
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Lucky you, that sort of thing never gets past the back room of our thrift stores, let alone to the front of them for anyone else but staff to take.
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WOW!!!!!!! What a great find!!!
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OMG!!!!
Looks like you and your DN can have a sewing day. :D :D Enjoy your great find. :thumbup: |
WOW!! Happy for you!!!
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WOW! Do you think you will finish them off or are you thinking of undoing them and making them up again in a different way?
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I boxed some up and sent them off to one of the charity quilters here on the board. Two pound of blocks and it didn't even dent the stack. What's in the pics is a little mis-leading cause they are so densely packed together.
I'm a little afraid to wash them. They are quite clearly old, have been stored for a while and the nature of the hand stitching makes them very delicate. I might have to re-enforce them. I really don't know what to do except stare and marvel. |
Great find!
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WOW!! What kind of thrift store do you have? wish we had one that took material and put it in bags. Wish we had a good thrift store...we have Goodwill and a couple consignment stores, but would love a SA!!!
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At our local Lifeline store, anything half decent is skimmed off out in the back roomand doesn't even make the front of the store. What's left is crap.
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Such a deal, a great find!
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What a great find!
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What a great find for you...enjoy!
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I think it would be so neat to put all of the orphan blocks together in one quilt or maybe two. Do you hand quilt? That would be a real treasure in itself. just my opinion
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Originally Posted by Gerbie
I think it would be so neat to put all of the orphan blocks together in one quilt or maybe two. Do you hand quilt? That would be a real treasure in itself. just my opinion
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Btw I weighed the bag they're in. 10 pounds. That's after I shipped 2 lbs off. They're all 6 1/2 blocks. There are probably enough for several quilts. Might be fun to do one of those double sided things.
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The reversible or (double sided) quilts are really easy to make. p.m. me if you need more info on it. I can't remember the name of my book at the moment, but will find it and give you the name. I think the author is Sharon Pederson, not sure at the moment, but that name comes to mind.
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It is sad that they were just given away but lucky you for getting them.
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Are you kidding me ! Wow ! Enjoy
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A genuine lucky packet, good luck to you.
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Nice find -
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I bet some granny made those.. very nice find :)
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Nice find. Nothing around here like that.
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You were so lucky. Great buy I would say..
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I take that back. There are 400 plus blocks. I counted them. I presume it would have been 500 if you count what I sent off already. Sad thing is I didn't even buy them all. The people who run the place separated them into different bags. I didn't want to look like (more of) a freak hauling them out, but if I go back today and they are still there I'm going to snatch them all up. They seem to be all done with vintage fabrics. A few are current-ish. Some are made with poly and flannel. It's been a trip going through them all.
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great find
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Holy cow, that's a lot of vintage blocks! I hope you sew them all up into something beautiful! Great find!
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