Did This Just Happen?
By Morley Hunt
@Morleyhunt (21737)
Canada
March 31, 2019 7:11pm CST
Last week my sister and I headed out to investigate a source for fabric remnants.
I had learned of this opportunity from someone I met on Facebook.
We had an hour to drive....then between the GPS and the directions provided by my friend we pulled into the driveway. The building looked like an unlikely place...but we saw the door with the awning....so we knew we were in the right place.
Minutes later we had been escorted into a cutting room where we were invited to help ourselves to the fabric pieces in two large cardboard boxes.
We exchanged glances and started the selection process.
I was looking for a large variety (I need about 1000 different prints in a 2.5 inch square) for a charm quilt.
My sister was looking for things she could use together in a quilt.
Within half an hour we were back in the car headed for home...with disbelieving grins on our faces. All we could say was Wow!
We will go back.
Arriving home we sorted through our haul. Did the math.....and realized we had just purchased approximately $800.00 worth of premium quilting cottons for the paltry sum of $14.00.
Have you found any unbelievable deals lately?
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10 responses
@GardenGerty (157552)
• United States
1 Apr 19
I am resisting fabrics right now. I won a large quantitiy last year. You got a wonderful deal, though. I love the colors in your photo.
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@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
1 Apr 19
Ssomehow at that price I felt no need to resist,
We were pretty tame. We had about 14.5 pounds of fabric.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
1 Apr 19
Was this part of an estate sale? I mean, it seems like you got away with highway robbery!
@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
1 Apr 19
No. It was at a warehouse where fabrics are cut for quilts....fat quarters etc.
This shows a little more of our haul.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
1 Apr 19
@Morleyhunt Oh wow, you got quite a big haul then. All of that for only $14.00?
@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
1 Apr 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum yes....that's was just some of what we got for our $14.00
@LadyDuck (458006)
• Switzerland
2 Apr 19
@Morleyhunt I can imagine your feeling, I would have loved a similar deal.
@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
1 Apr 19
We walked out of there like the cat that had just finished the cream. Grinning like fools and asking each other if this was for real.
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@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
1 Apr 19
We had so much fun. We felt like a couple of toddlers given the tub of ice cream and a spoon with no supervision!
@JudyEv (325755)
• Rockingham, Australia
1 Apr 19
That is an incredible deal. I won't ask where you're going to store all these pieces.
@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
1 Apr 19
I folded mine down to fit in a shoebox....my sisters needed a boot box.
Fabric? I can always find room.
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@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
2 Apr 19
@JudyEv I went after small pieces, my sister wanted larger...my largest piece is at least 2 meters....her (my sister) average piece is probably a quarter meter.
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@JudyEv (325755)
• Rockingham, Australia
2 Apr 19
@Morleyhunt That's good. I guess they are quite small pieces really.
@scarlet_woman (23465)
• United States
1 Apr 19
not like that
we don't have even one fabric store on the island anymore.
those are pretty blues.
we don't have even one fabric store on the island anymore.
those are pretty blues.
@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
1 Apr 19
I have repurposed clothing into doll clothes and quilts. Right now I have an abundance of fabric.
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@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
1 Apr 19
Oh yeah! this was worthy of a post all to itself.
@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
1 Apr 19
As I was writing my response to your discussion I knew it was post worthy
