What A Sale
Dec. 10th, 2019 03:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crockpotcauldronWent to the December quilt guild sale! I made out like a bandit. Here's what I got for $22:
1) an actual antique quilt (I know!!!) in white and double pink, with a double t block pattern and very nice quilted wreaths in the plain blocks. It's throw sized, and does have a strip of fading from where it was undoubtedly folded to display, but that's okay. It is a bit dusty smelling, so I'm going to find some Orvus soap and give it a soak before I let it touch any textiles I own.
2) an absolute shitton of white and unbleached muslin. The bundles were absurdly cheap, and I do like and use muslin, so I'm very happy to have it. It will be years before I need to buy muslin again.
3) three yards of an absurd Alexander Henry Halloween print with Universal monsters all over it. It's good quality fabric, too!
4) various bundles of cloth - found a lot of red, which I desperately need, some vintage-colored Nile green and pink solids, and even a bit of orange! That will keep me going for a while!
5) a full set of quilt clips, for securing a rolled up quilt while you feed it through a machine. I was just about to buy some!
6) some decent thimbles, specialty needles, and odds and ends. I am always up for new thimbles. I don't collect them or anything - I use them. It's surprisingly hard to find a good dimpled thimble these days! Everyone's selling the dumb gridded ones or the jelly or leather ones. Brass and nickel are the way to go.
7) an entire mason jar's worth of absolutely top notch buttons. I love buttons so much. They're like treasure to me. There are metal ones and old ones and colorful ones and weird ones and I am in hog heaven here.
8) a book and a bunch of loose patterns I am excited about
9) scraps for paper piecing
10) two cute quilting-themed puzzles
Seriously, it was absurdly cheap and I am so thrilled to have so much raw material for my projects, and such cute and useful things. I filled up a box and a massive tote bag, and I had to ask them to keep my stuff for a while as I pulled up the car (I like to park further away because the older guild members prefer a shorter walk to the building). I am very pleased with my haul.
Mitzi has returned my paper piecing books in the nick of time - I have a couple patterns I am planning for Christmas gifts. Did I mention she is making stained glass with the patterns? I've seen one piece already, from a Maaike Bakker pattern of a witch silhouette flying in front of a fire orange background, and it was very cool. Linda has asked for my help reverse engineering a paper piecing pattern - it was printed in two issues of a magazine, but Linda only has one. I told her it was no problem. I don't consider it a great ethical dilemma, and I'm not gonna make an eighty year old try to hunt old magazines on eBay. I have helped Francis find a sewing bee. All around, a great meeting!
I currently have an entire day of work ahead of me, hemming raw edges and putting my fabric through the wash. I've discarded all papers and plastic bags I got, because they had a funny stale smell to them. I'm not particularly sentimental about the papers buttons come attached to. The puzzles are going to get a sunlight and mild cleaner, which does help and doesn't damage them. The metal things got washed.
I will tell you later about the dwarves - I'm all the way up to Bombur! Gotta put them aside to do Christmas presents, though.
1) an actual antique quilt (I know!!!) in white and double pink, with a double t block pattern and very nice quilted wreaths in the plain blocks. It's throw sized, and does have a strip of fading from where it was undoubtedly folded to display, but that's okay. It is a bit dusty smelling, so I'm going to find some Orvus soap and give it a soak before I let it touch any textiles I own.
2) an absolute shitton of white and unbleached muslin. The bundles were absurdly cheap, and I do like and use muslin, so I'm very happy to have it. It will be years before I need to buy muslin again.
3) three yards of an absurd Alexander Henry Halloween print with Universal monsters all over it. It's good quality fabric, too!
4) various bundles of cloth - found a lot of red, which I desperately need, some vintage-colored Nile green and pink solids, and even a bit of orange! That will keep me going for a while!
5) a full set of quilt clips, for securing a rolled up quilt while you feed it through a machine. I was just about to buy some!
6) some decent thimbles, specialty needles, and odds and ends. I am always up for new thimbles. I don't collect them or anything - I use them. It's surprisingly hard to find a good dimpled thimble these days! Everyone's selling the dumb gridded ones or the jelly or leather ones. Brass and nickel are the way to go.
7) an entire mason jar's worth of absolutely top notch buttons. I love buttons so much. They're like treasure to me. There are metal ones and old ones and colorful ones and weird ones and I am in hog heaven here.
8) a book and a bunch of loose patterns I am excited about
9) scraps for paper piecing
10) two cute quilting-themed puzzles
Seriously, it was absurdly cheap and I am so thrilled to have so much raw material for my projects, and such cute and useful things. I filled up a box and a massive tote bag, and I had to ask them to keep my stuff for a while as I pulled up the car (I like to park further away because the older guild members prefer a shorter walk to the building). I am very pleased with my haul.
Mitzi has returned my paper piecing books in the nick of time - I have a couple patterns I am planning for Christmas gifts. Did I mention she is making stained glass with the patterns? I've seen one piece already, from a Maaike Bakker pattern of a witch silhouette flying in front of a fire orange background, and it was very cool. Linda has asked for my help reverse engineering a paper piecing pattern - it was printed in two issues of a magazine, but Linda only has one. I told her it was no problem. I don't consider it a great ethical dilemma, and I'm not gonna make an eighty year old try to hunt old magazines on eBay. I have helped Francis find a sewing bee. All around, a great meeting!
I currently have an entire day of work ahead of me, hemming raw edges and putting my fabric through the wash. I've discarded all papers and plastic bags I got, because they had a funny stale smell to them. I'm not particularly sentimental about the papers buttons come attached to. The puzzles are going to get a sunlight and mild cleaner, which does help and doesn't damage them. The metal things got washed.
I will tell you later about the dwarves - I'm all the way up to Bombur! Gotta put them aside to do Christmas presents, though.
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Date: 2019-12-10 11:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-12-11 12:26 am (UTC)Oh also I got stuff for my mom: heat resistant batting for making potholders, and a Scottish whiskey tin for her sewing kit, since she has Scottish shortbread tins for it. She has profited this day too!
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Date: 2019-12-11 12:53 am (UTC)Good luck on your Christmas present stuff -- it's getting down to crunch time for crafted things. :)
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Date: 2019-12-11 03:34 am (UTC)A jar of shirt buttons sounds like the best thing for sticking your hands into. You know, those white or yellowish shiny buttons that spawn in the darkness of sewing kits and that can never be used up in significant quantities.