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Carolinagirl
True Blue Farmgirl

486 Posts

Kim
Rutherfordton NC
USA
486 Posts

Posted - Oct 11 2006 :  09:06:00 AM  Show Profile
I'm getting ready to start embroidering some kitchen towels (hopefully for Christmas, depending on how motivated I am). Does anyone have any good places to get the plain old cotton, floursack kind? I've found one dealer on ebay who sells them, but I didn't know if there was some sort of surplus or something where I could get more than 2 at a time.

Thanks-
Kim in NC

Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl

9094 Posts

Nancy
West Seneca New York
USA
9094 Posts

Posted - Oct 11 2006 :  09:13:40 AM  Show Profile
Maybe Jenny will know, I think I remember her saying that she gets her towels at k mart.
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Carolinagirl
True Blue Farmgirl

486 Posts

Kim
Rutherfordton NC
USA
486 Posts

Posted - Oct 11 2006 :  09:50:09 AM  Show Profile
Dang. KMarts all closed here. I just found another dealer on ebay selling 38x31 floursack towels, 10 for $15! That's pretty good, althought that's a huge towel.
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candismom
True Blue Farmgirl

560 Posts

Elizabeth

560 Posts

Posted - Oct 11 2006 :  09:50:23 AM  Show Profile
Hi Kim,
I get mine from either www.allaboutblanks.com or Aunt Martha. You can do a search for Aunt Martha and order them on line. I have ordered from them lots.
Hugs,
Elizabeth
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GaiasRose
True Blue Farmgirl

2552 Posts

Tasha-Rose
St. Paul Minnesota
2552 Posts

Posted - Oct 11 2006 :  10:14:05 AM  Show Profile
I get mine at the local hardware hank....check there.


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Tasha-Rose
blog: http://gaiarose.wordpress.com
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Lizabeth
True Blue Farmgirl

560 Posts


Washington
560 Posts

Posted - Oct 11 2006 :  3:24:01 PM  Show Profile
Lehmans has a good price and the towels are a generous size.
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl

11381 Posts

Jenny
middle of Utah
USA
11381 Posts

Posted - Oct 11 2006 :  3:47:59 PM  Show Profile
I get mine at the local Ace hardware. We don't have a Kmart around here..but I think someone else did say that they got theirs at one. My problem with ordering them online was paying the shipping cost..it made them cost more than local. There are for sure diffferent types and grades. I like the bigger thicker ones best.

Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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Carolinagirl
True Blue Farmgirl

486 Posts

Kim
Rutherfordton NC
USA
486 Posts

Posted - Oct 11 2006 :  7:38:35 PM  Show Profile
Oh- thanks y'all. I never ever thought about the hardware stores! I'll check with them tomorrow. Do I just ask for flour sack towels, or kitchen towels, or what?

Edited by - Carolinagirl on Oct 11 2006 7:39:33 PM
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GaiasRose
True Blue Farmgirl

2552 Posts

Tasha-Rose
St. Paul Minnesota
2552 Posts

Posted - Oct 11 2006 :  7:59:56 PM  Show Profile
I would ask where they keep kitchen towels. Ours keeps them right by the regular kitchen towels. I get them in a 6 pack for $6 and change. Not bad I think.

I feel bad now that I have been buying them though....every year there is a flea market up in a neighboring town and the Relay For Life is there selling them for $1. I always get a couple of them as the flea market is once in the Spring and then again in the late Summer, so I end up with about 4 of them. I think I will be giving them a little more for each towel (the embroidery on them is stunning. OI love them and I buy them in memory of my Grandma who died a year and a half ago at 66 of breast and ovarian cancers) because I know how much time goes into them now and I know how much each towel costs just cost alone to do the project.

Sorry, a little off topic....


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Tasha-Rose
blog: http://gaiarose.wordpress.com
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BlueApple
True Blue Farmgirl

430 Posts

Julia
Oregon
USA
430 Posts

Posted - Oct 12 2006 :  04:56:34 AM  Show Profile  Send BlueApple an AOL message
I bought a package of two at our local Fred Meyers for $2.99. Great price and they are huge so I will cut them in half. The only negative is that they are rather thin...I would like them a bit thicker.

Julia
BlueApple Farm
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Carolinagirl
True Blue Farmgirl

486 Posts

Kim
Rutherfordton NC
USA
486 Posts

Posted - Oct 12 2006 :  05:19:34 AM  Show Profile
Julia- we noticed the Fred Meyer when we were in Oregon this summer. We didn't see any WalMarts. Is that what a Fred Meyer is- like a WalMart? We don't have Fred Meyer here.

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BlueApple
True Blue Farmgirl

430 Posts

Julia
Oregon
USA
430 Posts

Posted - Oct 12 2006 :  06:16:36 AM  Show Profile  Send BlueApple an AOL message
Fred Meyer is similar...you can buy just about anything as well as groceries.

Julia
BlueApple Farm
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GaiasRose
True Blue Farmgirl

2552 Posts

Tasha-Rose
St. Paul Minnesota
2552 Posts

Posted - Oct 12 2006 :  06:29:00 AM  Show Profile
are they are horrifying as Wal-Mart? or mor elike Trader Joes?


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Tasha-Rose
blog: http://gaiarose.wordpress.com
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Leezard
True Blue Farmgirl

950 Posts

Elizabeth
Novi MI
USA
950 Posts

Posted - Oct 12 2006 :  06:37:29 AM  Show Profile
Oh I love Trader Joes! :D

Here's a site I found with flour sack towels that seems quite reasonable. http://www.americanchairstore.com/floursacktowelsinfo.html
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Shirley
True Blue Farmgirl

734 Posts

Shirley
Olympia Wa
USA
734 Posts

Posted - Oct 12 2006 :  11:48:44 AM  Show Profile
I got some at ShopKo, the only place ive found so far. they were alittle more 3/5.99
I washed them before embroidering and they seem to be pretty good fabric
shirley
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Carolinagirl
True Blue Farmgirl

486 Posts

Kim
Rutherfordton NC
USA
486 Posts

Posted - Oct 12 2006 :  2:20:10 PM  Show Profile
I found them 5 for $5 today at WalMart! I'm going to wash them real quick and then start working! Thanks everyone!

Kim in NC
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Shirley
True Blue Farmgirl

734 Posts

Shirley
Olympia Wa
USA
734 Posts

Posted - Oct 13 2006 :  12:30:05 AM  Show Profile
I wonder why some WalMart carries them and others dont
Ours doesnt carry them?
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MustangSuzie
True Blue Farmgirl

634 Posts

Sarah
New London Missouri
USA
634 Posts

Posted - Oct 13 2006 :  03:45:15 AM  Show Profile  Send MustangSuzie a Yahoo! Message
I also find them at the local farm store (Farm and Home or Orchelens)


Sarah
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