Scarlett loves Fabric

There is a large fabric shop near where I live but I tend not to go there as the prices are a lot higher than the small haberdashery in town.  I was however driving past this shop yesterday so thought I'd pop in, they also have a charity shop up there so thought why not :o)

No surprise that the fabric was overpriced, the poly cotton was £9.99 a metre compared to the £2.99 I pay in town.  They did however have the fabulous remnant bin, it was marked up as everything £1 a metre.  So without any shame what so ever I went in with both hands pulling the fabric out.  There was loads of boring white cotton but then I came across this beauty:

There was about 2 metres of it and it still had the sample price tag - check out the price per metre:

Yes that is really £37.99 a metre!  I think the manager felt a bit sorry for the crazy mum rummaging through the off cuts so he gave me the whole piece for £1 haha! I make that a saving of £74.98 :o)  I better find a really nice project to use this on.

I also found a great piece of red curtain material:

There is about 2 and a half metres of this one and I would have thought it was the same sort of price as the previous piece per metre but again I got this one for £1 :o)  Thank you Mr fabric man.
The charity shop was chocka block with bargain hunters but under a pile of coats I found this:

A patchwork effect single bedspread, sorry the photos arn't great, needs an iron and to be displayed properly but I'm sure you get the gist.  I paid £3 for this, shame they couldnt throw the ironing service in with it *wink*.

I bought a couple of other bits too but need to photo so will save these for a post tomorrow as today looks like its going to be a house-bound day with a teething monkey.

Scarlett x

Linking to paisleypassions thrilling-thursday! and thrifty-thursday