So many of you post photos with stories of great finds at yard sales or of being gifted a stash. I never thought it would happen to me, but it did! A friend met some ladies who were cleaning items out of the apartment of a deceased relative. They asked my friend if she knew any quilters who might like some fabric. My friend’s SIL is a quilter, and she knew me! My friend took home a huge load of items. She kept back a large plastic tote of fabric for her SIL to go through, and kept some 1930s repo fabric for herself. I received two big plastic totes and several baskets of fabric, six quilting hoops, and some miscellaneous notions. All is good-to-excellent quality fabric, mostly by major fabric companies. Almost everything is quarter- to half-yard cuts, tons of fat quarters, very little yardage. The pictures below show most of it (my DD took home a plastic grocery bag of retro prints before I got it all sorted). There were also four pieced lap-sized quilt tops in Americana colors that just need borders (one is in the background of the stash) and some miscellaneous pieced blocks.

This quilter used scissors and templates and carefully drew her sewing lines on each block and hand-pieced. She absolutely loved patriotic themes and I have more variations on red/white/blue/gold stars and stripes and flags than you can possibly imagine. And she had a passion for stars! To say she was star-struck would be putting it mildly. In addition to the patriotic fabrics I have stars that glitter and shine in almost every color imaginable, as well as some celestial themed fabric with planets and stars. Also a nice stack of homespuns and some assorted prints. Funny about people’s tastes – there’s hardly a scrap of green in any of this, and not a speck of orange. No browns. Limited yellow, she tended toward gold. I have gotten about half of it washed; I’ve done 8 loads so far. I’m going to have to clean the sewing room and rearrange all my storage.

How lucky for you!

Lucky you!

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You thought your time would never come for such a stash. Well, it was certainly worth waiting for wasn't it? You will have some pretty quilts.

Oh lucky....lucky you!

Great gift!

Looks like you are going to have some fun! :thumbup:

Awesome, have fun with all your new "eye candy" :thumbup: :D :D

Wow!

Wow you got a real nice stash there.

Sibyl

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I bet you feel like it is Christmas!

Seems like your time has come. Enjoy!!!! I too love stars and can just imagine the fun you will have looking through all those.

Enjoy the new explosion of stars! Lucky you :thumbup:

Lucky gal!

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Boy were you lucky.

Very cool. I love your cupboard there in the background!

What a nice gift you received. Have fun quilting!!!

WOW! How great.

Lucky u! Have fun playing!!!

Thats alot of fabric. I went to a yard sale yesterday and this lady had 50 yards of white cotton for doing backs on quilts and got it for 30.00. Come home and it took me two loads (kingsize on my machine to wash all of it-now I have to press it. I was on cloud nine-I love fabric.lol My back was hurting so bad after I folded it from the dryer.

Congratulations!!! Great score!

WOW! SCORE!!!! :thumbup:

Sounds like there were a couple fabric winners this weekend.

Congrats!

Wow! Glad you got lucky!

Wow, way to go.

If a stash comes to me as the result of the death of a quilter, I will respect the quilter and respect her stash. Enjoy your good fortune.

enjoy! ;-)

What a fortunate day! If this is only part of the stash, this person's collection of fabric/notions must have been HUGE. (Of course, I am a minimalist, my fabric fits on one small bookcase...for now.)

u have been blessed!!!

Fantastic....I am sure the quilter will be looking down from the stars and smiling, knowing her stash went to worthy quilters:).

How lucky for you!

Christmas came early for you. Congratulations on your lucky break,

Lucky you! Enjoy!

Wow and a big congrats! You are ready set and go. Well maybe buy some yardage for borders and backs. You also got to buy some orange and green to go with it all.

Congrats on the haul.

Enjoy!