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For $15

When I bid a max of $15.00 for this fabric lot at the online Goodwill auction site I did so out of whimsy; I knew for sure someone would outbid me. It was 40 lbs. of fabric. No one can buy what would probably be over 100 yards of fabric for that little.

Well, you can guess what happened. I won the lot for, yes, fifteen dollars.

It definitely belonged to a quilter; I found three Missouri Star books and some patchwork in the box.

I also got 39 of these gorgeous patchwork blocks; enough for a quilt. And then there was the fabric. You remember, that forty pounds of fabric? Yep.

The multiple yardage pieces include about eight yards of this brown and cream floral decorator fabric down on the bottom row here. With the exception of a couple flannels the rest of the fabric is quilting cotton.

Many of the fabrics are expensive brands like Moda and Hoffman. Lots of batiks, French General, holiday and juvenile novelty prints, and even some North Carolina sports prints.

It's probably more fabric than I can use if I live to be ninety, which I likely won't, so I have to really think about how I can share the wealth. I might donate some to art teachers who use fabric at the public schools in the area. Everything also has a bit of a storage smell, so I will have to launder it, but otherwise it's very clean.

All of these photos are not everything that came in the lot. If I posted them all we'd be here all week. I'm also a little afraid to measure everything, but I probably will anyway to work out the cost per yard.

Cross stitch stamped quilt panels, anyone? I got six huge ones in the lot, too. :)

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