Yesterday I mentioned the cost of quilting and said today I would share with how I'm cutting the costs so that I can continue to quilting long into my golden years. I want to still be quilting when I'm 90!!
I have 5 quilting stores, all within 10 minutes of me and 2 fabric stores.
- instead of 100% loyalty at one quilting store, I will shop at all 5. This month one store is having $5 bag sales of scrap pieces of material. I'll buy some from her. Then I'll go over to another store that is having great sales on fat quarters.
- I plan on putting aside a specific amount of $$ so that when sales come up at the quilting stores I'll be able to add to my stash
- I'll buy my batting at one of the fabric stores because she gives me 20% off. I'll also ask this store if she will give me 20% off my flannel.
- when flannelette comes on sale, I'll purcahse a large quantity. This one is a toughie because the fabric store that puts flannelette on sale at 50% off has a horrible choice of flannelette!!
- ABSOLUTELY no waste of material. Even when it cups to cutting, I'll be more careful so that there is no waste. The tiniest of pieces will be put into quilts.
- Except for the 2 queen size quilts I'm working on, only single and baby quilts will be made.
- My quilts will get scrappier and scrappier (good thing I love scrappy quilts). I love string quilts and now that I know how to make the crumb blocks, I'll make more of those.
- although I would like to purchase some of the new gadgets that have come on the market for quilters, I will not purchase them. I'll keep to my trustie tools that I have now.
- I've seen some awesome quilts made with men's old 100% cotton shirts. Recently while in a thrift store, I seen some nurse's scrubs that were 100% cotton with the cutest of patterns. I plan on watching for sale days at thrift stores and purchasing more shirts along with the scrubs.
3 comments:
You are blessed with 5 stores to choose from. Here we have one fabric store, We can travel several miles to find more but there are not many even at that. We used to have more and I've wondered why they left the area. It's nice you have a plan and take advantage of the sales. Seems as though you'll be quilting for a long long time.
We only have one in our town left and she has downsized so much it is sad. I order most of my fabrics on-line now or have to drive an hour away to the nearest quilt store. Of course you can also check out Etsy, Zibbet shops for reduced fabrics (I sell mine with free shipping) and check out giveaways if you have time!
I agree you are lucky to have 5 stores close to you.
Gill
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