Temptation Numbers

There are 24 different fabrics in the lot I couldn't resist.

Altogether they measured out to 42.71 yards, including eight pristine yards of this navy and white striped cotton.

The original owner probably made clothes and other sewing projects as well as quilts, and the lot were their scraps. Here's a piece of evergreen velveteen and a purple faux suede.

An adorable yard of Wilderness kids fabric. This lot has some of the nicest quality fabrics I've got by thrifting; some would definitely sell for $8.99 or more a yard. There's a medium blue solid synthetic that appears to be evening gown fabric, and that can run $20.00 a yard or more. There were five fabrics including the navy/white stripe and the blue gown fabric that were 2-1/2 yards or more in length. The only downside is that everything has a bit of a storage smell, but everything can be washed or cleaned.

I would price this lot at $5.00 a yard for resale, or $213.55 total value. I paid about a dollar a yard for the lot via the buy-it-now option (which Goodwill online sometimes offers), so I'm quite happy with what I got.

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Love Means This

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Other Stashes

Along with clearing out the spare bedroom and tidying my office and our guest bedroom, I decided to reorganize some of my stashes. This is all the yarn I have on hand, sorted by color. It looks like a lot, but lately I've been using up a minimum of half a bin every month, so this is approximately a year's supply. All of my solid color cotton perle thread. I go through a lot of this every year, too. I need a container in which I can fit all of it together, but I haven't found the right one yet. I won't show you all of my fabric -- I'm still reorganizing this stash -- but I went through everything and donated two bins of fabric I won't need to the local quilter's guild.

Store Closing Haul

The mega Books-A-Million store over in Sanford is closing, and offered an extra 20% off on their current stock -- all sales final -- so I went over to do some shopping. Safely but sadly there was no one in the store but me the entire time I was there. The Holly Jackson novel is for Katherine, the Halloween board book is for Oliver, and the copy of Garden Spells is to keep on hand because I give that book to everyone. The rest of the books are for me. I love Anne Cleeves, and the Galbraith novel sounded interesting (the first couple weren't, but I'm willing to take another chance.) The Escape Room is by a new-to-me author, plus it was cheap. The GreenCraft mag is just a guilty pleasure. Hopefully the smaller BAM nearer to me won't close. I don't buy many books from brick-and-mortar stores these days, but that's really the last one within reasonable driving distance.

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