Nine Pounds First Look

The nine pounds of fabric I won from a Goodwill online auction arrived, so let's see what I got.

Here's a shot of everything. I got A LOT more fabric than I expected. Among them are some very nice batik scraps, bird and peacock prints, and a bunch of quilter's panels. I can already tell whoever owned this fabric was a huge fan of bird and outdoor-themed quilts.

I'll have to count all the panels when I measure the lot, but there are a pile of them. Weirdly, there's one cartoony space panel. Then again, I have a fat quarter with an ancient Egyptian print, right? So you never know what will make it into a stash.

This Halloween panel is just adorable. Pretty sure that's a Hoffman (checking, and yep, circa 2017, which gives me a rough estimate of how old the stash is.)

Some of the panels are older than the Hoffman -- maybe from 2000 to 2010? -- but in new condition. All of the fabric is. There is a bit of a storage smell, so I'll have to wash everything, but this was definitely more quality than I expected.

Stay tuned to see how many yards of fabric I will get out of my 9 pounds. :)

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