Fifty-Six Cents Per Yard

I finally got a chance to measure all the fabric in the mystery patchwork lot, and it turned out to be more than I imagined.

Altogether I got three yards of this gorgeous mint condtion vintage gold metallic lightning/rainbow batik fabric, which I discovered now sells for $14.99 a yard. That's $44.97 retail for just those two pieces of fabric.

The fleece and flannels here totalled 5-1/4 yards. The cheapest retail price I could find for the fleece was $10.77. Flannels run about $5.99 a yard, so those two would have cost me $19.47.

Much of the fabric is quilt shop quality, like this lovely yard of Robert Kaufman Fusions #7, which presently retails for $12.99.

I can't put a price on the patchwork. I'm just honored that it came my way, and I'll be happy to finish it.

Adding up all the measurements, the total for the lot was 28.5 yards. I'm comfortable pricing all the fabric I received at $5.00 per yard resale (as indicated above, some are worth a lot more), so that $142.50 worth of fabric. I paid $16.00 for the entire lot, or about fifty-six cents per yard. Thrift your fabric, friends.

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