Savers Thrift store bonanza!!!
#11
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 1,097
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.
#12
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Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: Greater Peoria, IL -- just moved!
Posts: 6,168
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.
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.
#13
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Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Dakotas
Posts: 3,025
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.
#15
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Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: northern minnesota
Posts: 2,480
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.