Be Careful What You Thrift For

I wanted some dress making fabric with which to practice pattern sewing, and saw a lot of nice looking yardage in this lot, which I thought might be mostly polyester or linings. Anyway, I bid on and won with one one challenger who gave up almost at once.

This huge, heavy box arrived a week later, and as soon as I lifted it I thought, "Uh-oh." The memory of that gigantic lot of quilting fabric I got for pennies came back to me.

It's not 103.25 yards of fabric like that other lot. It's 64.5 yards. I was right in that it most definitely is dress making fabric: mostly gown-quality silks, silk charmeuse and heavy satins. The five yards of navy blue silk charmeuse by itself is worth around $150.00. The satins are the high-quality type that can run as much as $80.00 a yard. Conservatively I think the lot is worth somewhere in the neighborhood of a thousand dollars. I bought it for $13.00, or about twenty cents a yard.

Image credit: the first pic in this post came from the original auction listing on ShopGoodwill.com.

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