Two friends named Joanne and Cathy had a stash reduction sale today. I was the first one there. Well, what would you do when someone says they're selling batiks and African prints for $6 a pound? (For you yardage friends, there's about 4 yards in a pound of fabric.)
African prints are somewhat of a rarity in quilt shops around here. You get a lot more traditional fabrics -- flowers, tone-on-tone, geometrics, small prints -- but I love the bright and different use of colors in African prints.
And batiks -- well, they are heavenly. If you love color, batiks are like the perfect sunset at the end of a perfect day.
In any case, $90 later, I've made a sizable transfer of stash from Cathy to me. That's about $1.50 a yard. Batiks run from $9 to $10 per yard when new and off the bolt.
Major stash score. I'm happy.
This qualifies as cheap thrill number 4!
And I finished A Room with a View by E.M. Forster last night. My favorite quote: "There is no rehearsal for life." I think this one's a bumper sticker.
I would have been there right with you.
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