Quilts, Etc.

Sunny

Shar> We have a new shop opening at the mall this month called Quilts. Etc.

They are cheap quilts. All appear to be handquilted, but its not nicely done. And the prices are more like $35 canadian. I don't know about the quilt quality or how they are made, but they have the handmade look and by handmade I mean that sterotyple I dont want it too look "handmade" type of way... but that is just my opinion. They exisit in every mall around this area. They remind me of the "quilts" in hotel rooms actually. Good I guess for some who want a quilt and not pay the price that a real handmade one would cost.

Carissa

turning up at Wally World and Target.

Sunny

Carissa wrote:

I was thinking more of the quilts at JC Penny and the one on my bed. :( soon I hope to have a hand made one there. Did anyone look at the price of sheets on that site?

500 Thread Count; 100% Cotton Sateen; 18" Deep Fitted Price: Queen $199.99; King $239.99

Now to me that is a high price to pay for sheets even if they are cotton sateen and 500 thread count.

I wish I could f>>From the looks online, these will be similar to the "handmade" quilts

Don't get TOO excited Sharon. Those stores are all over Alberta. They have some nice home bed/bath stuff but if you are looking for "quilts" what they have is better than Walmart but probably not what you are imagining. I was disappointed when I went into my first one about 6 or 7 years ago. Now that I know what they are ,I find I look there for towels or sheets for gifts, and check out their stores for sales when I have time to kill in the mall (doesn't happen much anymore, since now I drive an hour to get to a mall). A new store is always fun to check out tho. Enjoy!

Marilyn in dreary, grey Alberta (supposed to rain all week)

We just picked up sheets at Big Lots. We got two new beds so I kind of had to. Usually I make them, but they had some very good prices on some very nice sheets. You have to keep checking for such stuff at those kind of stores. Nobody ever knows what they are going to get in or when. Often you have to wade through a whole lot of trash to find the good stuff. After searching through tons of polyblend sheets, I came out with flannel sheets for all four beds, some very nice sateen for the two double beds, a linen weave set for my bed (king) and some jersey knit sheets for the twin, all in 100% cotton. Eight sets of sheets with pillowcases and I got them very cheaply. I was thinking of going back for some of the super cheap poly blend sheets to make mattress pads out of, but Sears ran a sale and we got pads for the two new beds there for about what cheap sheets and cheap polybat would cost, and with no effort required on my part.

You need suspenders for your sheets. I am pulling a blank on proper names for things (too little sleep, and too much work this weekend). You can buy elastics with garter fasteners on each end that you can fasten onto your sheets under the mattress to keep the sheets on. They are pretty easy to make yourself too. Or if you prefer you can buttonhole the sides of the sheets, run ribbons under the mattress and tie the ribbons through the buttonholes. Being as I don't fancy mucking about with elastic and all to make fitted sheets, that is what I do to turn flat sheets into bottom sheets when I make them. Yeah I suck at old fashioned properly folded corners. :)

NightMist

Thanks everyone for all the info. I figured they'd be cheap quilts at those prices - dying to see them tho'. No I'd never buy one - I make my own, but I was really just wondering what it would do to the sales of quilters around here. I like to try and sell at least one a year, but an elderly friend of mine sells quite a few every year. Well I guess it will come down to knowledgeable buyers who are looking for quality quilts.

Sharon (N.B.)

I bought 600 tc sheets on overstocks.com a while back. Fabulous sheets and a fraction of the prices you've listed. NAYY... DeNise

Jacquel> I was thinking more of the quilts at JC Penny and the one on my bed.

Denise, I didn't say I bought them, I said that is the price they had on them online in that store. I am still looking for some that are not deep pockets, but I don't think that is going to happen.

BTW, I mentioned JC Penny quilts and said I have one in another thread a few weeks ago. Well today I changed sheets on my bed and I was looking at it closely and it is awful. There are not 4 stitches per inch in a lot of it. No wonder the first time I washed it I had to get mother to resew it for me.

Jacqueline

There are two shops within an hour of us that are what our pastor calls the Ladies Buzzard shops. If pastor needs the benefit of our expertise on Tuesdays (senior citizens 10% off day), he knows where to find us. A local guy buys out truckloads from stores all over the country that have had fires or really gone out of business. We never know what might come in from day-to-day and tossing the rubble is big fun. FWIW IMHO sateen sheets are not that great. Sateen stretches, thus, it bags, sags and wrinkles. We have a set of those 500 ct sateen sheets but they will probably never get to see a bed again. Might use 'em for absorbing water if the creek starts rising but we only found them annoying as bed linens. Polly

Howdy!

The truth about "thread count" :

Sateen: yeah, what Polly said; you can have my share.

Speaking of bed covers/linens, several years ago someone recommended using used mattress pads as batting in a scrap quilt so some of us did. Mattress pads stretch and bag and wrinkle, too. I re-did that quilt a year afterwards.

Ragm> There are two shops within an hour of us that are what our pastor calls the

Polly I don't care for sateen either, actually not sure I have ever had sheets out of it. I buy Egyptian Cotton sheets for my beds, but I have enough sheets that I shouldn't have to buy any for a few years. I try to catch them on sell. I can't see paying full price for much of anything unless you need it right away. The only items I normally pay full price for are milk and bread, and fresh fruit and veggies, but I normally only buy them if they are on sale too. Everything else I buy when on sale. If ground sirloin is on sale I might buy 10 lbs and freeze in 1 lb-2 lb packages, roasts I will buy 3 or 4 of them at a time. Veggies, if it is one we eat a lot of I normally buy a case of it. My dad was smart when he had this house built he had two kitchens put in it, and one of the has shelves from my grandparents grocery store in it, that is the one in the basement and we have it looking like a grocery store, too. Plus I have two freezers. Now most of our veggies we can from our garden. Tomatoes, Tomato Juice, pickles, peppers, chow chow, and green beans; potatoes, we keep in the dairy out behind the house, we freeze Okra, greens and corn, apples, peaches, blackberries and blueberries, strawberries and such.

Jacquel>There are two shops within an hour of us that are what our pastor calls the

Truth! If babies have satin skin, then we ladies of a certain age have sateen skin! Roberta in D

"polly esther" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:THEUg.9696$ snipped-for-privacy@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...