Wow, this sounds like a fun and huge event! Let us know how it turns
out.

When we had our fabric sale last year I was totally surprised at how
much of those old 70's calicoes (in about 6 colors and three different
prints) went out the door. One lady was picking through that area
looking for every bit of the bright yellow. Who can predict what will
be unpopular?

Do you have places lined up to take any leftovers? We've had good luck
with SCRAP in S.SF taking odd fabric and things. Our local libraries
were willing to take any leftover books for their sale as well.

marcella

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"Pauline" wrote:

Thanks a bunch Sandy! Yes, I feel comfortable with a starting bid/price of
$50.00. If it doesn't sell, we'll slash the price 50% during the last hour
of the sale.

Fabric Follies & More is a fundraiser for us. We did this about 5 years ago
& raised about $5,000.00, so we're going to give it a go again. Since this
is a fundraiser (in a non-quilt show year), we are asking the members to
donate all those fabrics, patterns, books, magazines, notions, quilt tops &
UFO's they no longer need or want, for us to sell. We accept pretty much
anything that is craft related, so we have received LOTS of yarn & lots of
cross-stitch patterns & supplies as well. We also have received some
non-quilting fabric, which we price at $1 & if we don't sell it, it goes to
the thrift store. We have received a couple of "higher priced" items, such
as the quilting hoop, an Alto Quilt-Cutter, (retails for about $200),
various quilt tops & some other kind of a quilting frame that I don't even
know how to research. The higher priced items we are putting in a silent
auction & they will be available to view at our website & we'll have a
running slide show of those items at our June meeting. The sale is in July.
I'm co-chairing this event & so I'm seeing most everything that has been
donated. Some great stuff - some not so great stuff. If it's really,
really bad, we are either trashing it (seriously flawed fabric, etc.) or
taking it to a thrift store (out of the area, so as not to offend anyone).
We want to put on a good show & not sell anything that is junky, cause we
want people to have a good shopping experience & come back the next time we
do this. So far, the most bizarre donation we have received is a light
fixture!!!! That isn't going to make it into the sale - it's already made
it's way to the thrift shop.

We are sending flyers to other local guilds, we will post an ad on Craig's
List & put an ad in the Penny Saver. This is my first time co-chairing the
event, so learning lots as we go along. We price LQS quality fabric at
$4/yd & other cottons at $2/yd. We are also going to have grab bags with a
$1 off coupon for a local quilt shop, plus a notion or fat 8th or pattern.
We sell these for $1. We want to partner with the LQS, as well, so we can
help to promote their business as well.

We did do a "member's garage sale" a couple of years ago. Unfortunately,
when we planned it, we did not expect to have the response from the members
that we did. I think we did it in April & we ended up overflowing to the
patio area. Even with renting construction lighting, the lighting was poor
& the members did not have a great experience with it. I tried to promote
that this year, but didn't get enough interest. I was going to rent a
larger facility & do it on a weekend, to take advantage of the daylight.

Let me know if I can give you anymore details!

Pauline
Northern California