I should have written about my fabric purchases earlier but I didn’t get that far. Â I got distracted by all sorts of other things and my fabric has languished on the table. Â Remember way back in October when Kelli and I spoke at the NE Iowa Quilt Guild Quilt Show? Â Well that’s the day I purchased this fabric. Â I’m certainly overdue to write about it.
I have a rule in my house. Â Anything that needs to be written about on the blog stays on my dining room table until I blog about it. Â This fabric has been there awhile….I need to clean off the table but can’t until I write about it so…here goes.
I did tell you about part of what I bought. Â That was the cute-cute sock monkey baby quilt that I put together and gave my new childcare baby. Â If you missed that read about it here.
The other things I got from a vendor from a shop that closed in Wisconsin. Â I hadn’t heard of her shop before….want to know what enticed me into her booth? Â If you said her scrap bucket, you’d be right!! Â She had a big bowl filled with scraps. Â Any scrap in the bowl was five cents each! Â WOW. Â Five cents each!! Â If you know me at all, you know that had me digging in the scraps. Â I ended up with this pile…31 pieces. Â They are all sizes. Â A couple are fat quarters and one was almost a 1/2 yard. Â All this was $1.55.
The lady vending said that she had a quilt shop for many years and had accumulate all sorts of scraps. Â She was happy to get rid of them. Â As we were talking I told her I was a blogger and that we had a quilt book. Â She asked about a business card. Â I didn’t have one in my purse but did have one with our quilts so I went to get one. Â I ended up bringing her a copy of our book to look at telling her I’d come back and get it at the end of the day.
Our day went on. Â We did our shows and we packed up. Â As I was getting ready to leave I remembered the book and went back to get it. Â We talked a bit and then I saw that she had refilled her scrap bowl. Â Well…(you know me)…I started digging again. Â I came up with this pile then. Â There are 15 pieces this time…so 75 cents bought this!
When I was doing that Kelli was finalizing a few things. Â When I caught up to her she asked what took so long. Â I told her I raided the scrap bowl again. Â She laughed and said, “I should have known”.
So that’s how I ended up with more fabric.
….and how I ended up with this awesome wooden bowl? Â A thrift store find the same day.
I think my fabric are going to hang out here until I get a chance to cut them all up and put them in my scrap users system.
In my defense, who can resist fabric at five cents each? Â Could you resist 5 cent each pieces of scraps? Â Am I the only crazy one?
To see what other are doing with their fabric, check out Patchwork Times.
What amazing pieces of fabric for 5c each! Unbelievable. I love the green and white striped piece – that’s exactly the sort of fabric I choose for bindings. I think stripes, spots or tiny checks make the best bindings.
That’s definitely a bargain!! I say you need to buy at that price! Lol!
I think you used a lot of restraint, because I would have asked how much more do you have with you? (If Dave wasn’t along! HA!) Fun purchase!!
I would have been right next to you picking
fabric for the both of us, I love this kind of fabric shopping it’s like a treasure hunt.
You DO find the best deals! Who could resist five cents a piece scraps? I would have been digging in that bucket right along side you! And that wooden bowl is gorgeous…I can just see a nice Fall arrangement in it as a table center piece.
Lucky you!!!!! I am happy as a clam when I find a scrap bundle for a dollar or two. I never get the deals that you get here in PA. =)
Jo, would you mind sharing the link to your “scrap user’s system?” I’m laid up with a pulled muscle/pinched nerve, so now would be a good time for me to do some sorting of all those garbage bags of scraps. (BTW, I LOVE that bowl!)
I use Bonnie Hunter’s http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2005/06/scrap-users-system.html.
Oh my gosh! I would totally be digging with you in that scrap bowl! 5 cents a piece WOW! I would’ve ended up buying everything they had probably LOL! You definitely are not crazy, lucky, but not crazy! By the way I just want to say I absolutely love reading your blog. Every time I get an email notification I wonder what is she up to next!
I am not going to lie, I would have asked if she had a total price for ALL of the scraps she had with her. :) I bought grab bags this weekend for $10 each. . . LOVE the fabric in them!