OMG and more estate sale bargains

We returned from our wonderful Road Scholar trip on Thursday. I hope to post the travelog tomorrow -- many photos, many great discoveries.

Meanwhile:  I finished Tree Farm, my One Monthly Goal for September.  This is the 2017 AAUW holiday raffle quilt. Proceeds benefit national and local AAUW projects.  The red strip on the left side was because I didn't get the top centered on the back. (I also had to baste it twice. The backing is directional. The first time I basted it upside down.)

Friday afternoon (yesterday) I went to an estate sale in Wadsworth, the next town west.  I mostly wanted to see the house (here).   The bookstore/library display shelving on the upper level is an efficient way to store a lot of media but certainly unexpected in such a house.

It was the second day of the sale so prices were reduced 25%. There was so much stuff that there were other discounts. The finished basement was FILLED with women's clothing, much of it unworn. (Eclectic sources: Chico's to Target to Wal-Mart.) Books/magazines were reduced to 4 for $1.  Out of several hundred cookbooks I bought two published by local churches. (I will give them to the library for the local history collection.) I bought a dozen quilt books and magazines.

Where there are quilt books there is likely to be fabric.

But first:   unused Tammis Keefe cocktail napkins (6"), $3.

Unused tea towels and three unopened packages of Montgomery Ward bandanas (4 per pkg), .75 each.

Quilt fabric was priced by small (1 yd and under), medium (2 yds), and large pieces (3 yds+).  I took all that appealed to me.  Price: $73.  At home I measured:  72 yards.  $1 per yard isn't bad!

As I've said, if I can't help buying fabric I might as well find bargains.


See other September OMG finishes on the Elm Street Quilts blog

Adding Monday linkups, too. 
Design Wall Monday
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