Rayen

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 th...

While at the quilt show I randomly picked up some scrap and bargain bin fabrics without really thinking about making anything particular. My subconscious must have done the choosing because they all weirdly work together. Add a little black, a little violet, and a little blue, and they'd make a pretty lap quilt. This scrap bundle of bird fabrics was labelled 6 half yard cuts for $4.00. They actually gave me 8 half-yards. I got this tiny tote with ribbon and tissue paper from the guild's boutique. I considered going back to the show on the second day, but since it was on a Saturday there will be a lot more people there. I don't want to get sick right before Thanksgiving. I got to take pics of most of the quilts, and picked up some fun things from the vendors and the guild boutique, so I'm happy.