Bargain Shopping

I stumbled on a great deal in a Casper quilt shop last week and doubt that I will ever find such a bargain again.

The shop has a section in the basement where the clearance fabric is displayed, so I headed downstairs when I entered the shop. I was on a mission to find some backing fabrics for Quilts of Valor. The QOV I frequently make require about four yards of fabric each, so spending full price of $11 or more for yardage can deplete my QOV funds fairly quickly. In the basement, I found three fabrics with a 30% clearance price.

I returned upstairs. The clerk was helping someone else, so I put the bolts near the cutting table and wandered the store looking at patterns and fabric. Tucked near the back of the store was a small alcove with a sign on the wall indicating the fabric in that section was $1 a yard. Really? I perused the fabric and found two bolts of Jenny Beyer fabric, one with broad stripes that would make an attractive quilt back and another with smaller stripes. I took the bolts to the cutting table and asked if they were indeed $1 a yard. I was assured they were.  I have never seen fabric priced so low in a quilt shop - NEVER.

I left the shop with yardage for six and a half backs for Quilts of Valor and a wild, orange print (shown under the receipt) for a totally different project.

While the fabric was being cut, I was chatting with another customer and discovered she is a longarm quilter. She offered to quilt my next two Quilts of Valor. Fantastic!

I felt like dancing down the street when I left the shop.