So I drove 40 minutes to Garland to look through a lady's fabric stash. She advertised on Craigslist that she would sell some of her stash by the yard for $3-$5 per yard. I thought, well, ther probably won't be a whole lot I like so I'll put $40 as my max and I don't have to spend it all if I don't find enough that I really want. This weekend, I worked as quickly as I could to make the $40 doing my new data entry job. I took out the cash so I wouldn't spend more than my limit and Lincoln and I drove off on our journey to Garland. Chris took the old car so I could drive on the toll roads and that in itself proves how dedicated I was to looking at this fabric. The end of the story is she had a lot of really cool fabric that I really wanted and I spent more than 3 times my budget. Oops.
I bought 2 yards each of these:
Then 1 yard each of these:
Then 1/4 yard of these:
and these:
Can you really blame me though? I mean, come on!
Afterwards, we went to see where Chris works and have lunch with him. Lincoln fell asleep in the car on the way home. I managed to stay awake. It was a fun day trip, but it sure wore me out.
7 comments:
You were right. It's the quarter yards that excite me the most. But what a haul! They are all so pretty. (Oops. Sorry to bother you in the midst of your data processing marathon.) :o)
Whoa...that some dedicated fabric shopping! Good work. Even I, who does not sew well, can tell that you got some beautiful stuff. Well done.
You might just be a fabric-o-holic. Way to go! I like what you got and I also like that you went ahead and got what you wanted.
It would appear that it was definitely worth the trip -now if you bought all that, how much of her stash did you leave behind??
Yeah, fortunately for her these were pretty much all on bolts so I think she still has plenty to work with. There was so much great stuff to choose from. I was might impressed.
I meant mighty impressed. Where did my "y" go?
Wow, I would drive 2 hours (well, my husband would drive since I can't) to get that much fabric at such a good price :)
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