Expenses: Supplies and Fabric

I couldn't help myself - I went to the fire sale one more time....  This time determined to get needles, yellow, green, orange, and blue.

So this is my haul - 31 yards of fabric plus, 20 packages of needles, 3 spools of thread, 1 crib batting.

Beautiful fabric - clear colors....

$140.71

These are beautiful fabrics - I'm lucky to get them at such a good price...

When I was picked out the first batch (all plain) there were two ladies also looking at the plain fabrics.  They had a piece of patterned stuff that they wanted a plain color to go with it.  I could hear them whispering about how bright my color choices were (not in a good way bright).  Oh well.

I don't know how these colors will look once they are used - but I hope they will be spectacular!  They actually seem rather dull to me - that's why I grabbed some dots too.  Also, as I really don't want to go back again to a fabric store for a while.  I certainly must have enough now!

I got a wonderful deal on the needles - so went wild and got all they had on display.

I got three spools of greyish colors of thread - I picked different shades just so I wouldn't get bored.  Also I was thinking I could combine the colors when doing FMQing.

So now I'm going to cut 2 inch strips and test for color bleeding in my bowl of boiling water and white paper towels - then I will wash and iron.  (Hopefully while I'm working on my LibRR rectangle rows!)

Some thread and dot fabric too!

 Oh, I asked them if they had scraps of batting or knew a long armer who had scraps, and the one guy said he took the scraps and the other lady said she mailed her scraps (batting and fabric) to a friend who was really kooky as all she did was scrap quilts.  She wasn't talking to the right person..!

One of the ladies who is attending the Gwen Marston/Freddy Moran quilting class with me said she could bring her batting scraps for me to use for my FMQing practice - will be nice to not have to use the old towels I was thinking I'd have to start using!  She suggested I find long-armers and ask for scraps and if I wasn't successful to let her know and she'd bring a bag for me!

I'm really glad to have such nice fabric in my stash now.  I remember when I first restarted quilting that I read post on the Stashbusters list from ladies who had retired.  One had acquired a bunch of cheap fabric - just what was on sale when she went to the store. The other had gotten what she described as more timeless plain, tone on tone fabric - she said something about how she had invested in her retirement with this fabric.

Before this last month, most of my fabric was what I received from my mom and my godmother - not the colors or patterns I would have picked out for the most part.

So now - I have a nice collection.  I think I'll just need to get batting now to put these in quilts!

Needles (Type & Size recommended by Leah)

Crib size batting and thread

Isacord Thread (Metal)	1.00	$6.00
Fb. 4073  A3671 A Touch of Wool Batting (Crib)	1.00	$9.35
		$15.35
50% off		$7.68
tax		$1.39
Total		$9.07		$9.07	$8.26
Schmetz Universal 80/12 -5 in pack	20.00	$1.50	$30.00
50% off			$15.00
tax			$1.16
			$16.16	$16.16	$16.16
	Yards
Fabric	0.75	$5.00	$3.75
	1.00	$6.10	$6.10
	1.00	$5.49	$5.49
	1.00	$5.49	$5.49
	1.00	$5.49	$5.49
	1.00	$5.00	$5.00
	1.00	$6.10	$6.10
	1.00	$5.10	$5.10
	1.00	$6.10	$6.10
	1 1/8	$5.49	$6.18
	1.00	$6.10	$6.10
	1.00	$5.10	$5.10
	1.00	$8.10	$8.10
	1.00	$5.00	$5.00
Total	13.88		$79.10
50% off			$39.55
tax			$3.11
			$42.66	$42.66	$43.21
	Yards
Fabric	1	$9.80	$9.80
	1	$5.10	$5.10
	1	$6.10	$6.10
	1	$5.50	$5.50
	1 5/8	$10.35	$16.82
	1	$5.25	$5.25
	1	$5.49	$5.49
	1	$5.00	$5.00
	1	$6.10	$6.10
	1	$9.80	$9.80
	1	$9.30	$9.30
	1 3/8	$10.35	$11.73
	4 1/8	$6.10	$25.16
	17.125
Isacord Thread (Dophin) Fb 0152 A3021	1	$6.00	$6.00
Isacord Thread (Sea Shell) Fb.0170  A2821	1	$6.00	$6.00
total			$133.15
50% off			$66.57
tax			$5.26
			$71.83	$73.08	$73.08
	31.00	yards	grand total	$140.97	$140.71
					Actual paid