Estate sale find!
10-30-2010, 03:54 PM
#41
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Southern IL
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you know the saying 'she with the most fabric wins"? Well we found the winner about 12 yrs ago. My cousin worked at a Moose Lodge & some lady said her sister passed away, left her a million dollars. Her only complaint was she was too old to enjoy that million dollars now, she'd wished she'd gave it to her earlier in life. Then went on to tell about how her sister collected fabric all her life & they had an estate sale to get rid of all her belongings. My cousin asked her what all she had in the estate sale & she proceded to tell her. This woman had 66 boxes of fabric. All measured 5 yds & up or 5 yds & under on every box. They sold 66 boxes at the estate sale & still had 22 boxes left! My cousin & I went over there to look at it & once she saw it, she offered her $200 for all of it & they took it! This fabric filled one whole side of my 2 car garage! We had so much fun going thru all this fabric night after night after we got it home. Thank goodness someone had a truck to help us because we could have never carried all of it. I still have 99% & have thought about selling it because I just have not used it. But for now it sits nice & neat in my closet all folded & ready to be used. These are the best pics I could get of it.... ;o}
10-30-2010, 03:57 PM
#42
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 145
How wonderful. Wish I could have been with you just to see it. I just attended the Twin Rivers Quilt Show in New Bern, NC. So many beautiful quilts. Makes me want to put all other life activities on hold and just quilt!
10-30-2010, 04:23 PM
#45
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 183
good for you . I went to our local goodwill store and foung a lg. plastic tote for 3.00. it gets better when i opened the tote it was full of fat qt. still in pkgs and a whole finished quilt top x block still not done lots of layer cakes. so ask at the checkout if 3.00 was the right price ,lucky me it was so counted myself very lucky. counted 45.00 in fat qts
10-30-2010, 04:34 PM
#46
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: northeast Georgia
Posts: 662
Originally Posted by cherryberry
I just got back from an estate sale and am so excited! There was a sewing room full!!! I only got one bin of fabric for $6.00, all browns and other women ahead of me got the rest and there were 2 closets full. Wish i could have got there a little earlier. However her quilting books had no price and apparently no one had asked. I grabbed up 12 books and took them to the checkout. Cost $2.00/ book!!!! I got Volume 1,2, and 3 of Better Homes and Gardens Quilt -Lovers Favorites,Quilting with Fons and Porter, 365 Fun to stitch Quilt Blocks, Debbie Mumm's Quick Country Quilts for Every Room, The Thimbleberries Guid For Weekend Quilters, Quilting Pieces of the Past, and 3 books from Rodale's Successful Quilting Library. $ 2.00/each! I'm a happy camper!
10-30-2010, 06:45 PM
#47
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Chico, California
Posts: 44
Dear Cherryberry, I bet the lady who left her prised items would be so please that you got them and appreciated them..I just got a singer traddel machine cabinet with a electric sewing machine put into it.old too, it looks like the picture by your name..it cost $25.00.. is that a good deal??
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