Only 300 brain cells are awake... I think

I really don't recommend trying to compose a 300th blog post and giveaway idea while coming off a 5 day stint of long days, little sleep, and a bit too much "hospitality," if you know what I mean.

However, since I did not want my 300th post to be part of the Phoenix Mystery Quilt series, I needed to come up with something today. So instead of napping while my son is "napping" (he's not, really, but that is another post for another day...) here I am trying to put coherent thoughts together (these are the times I am glad I don't work on Mondays)...and have a bit of 300th post fun.

So, we are going to play the shop hop game. On my way to my conference last Wednesday, I was able to stop at 2 quilt shops - and bought a bunch of stuff.

So we are going to play a little "Price is Right" game -I will describe what I purchased at these 2 shops and approximate yardages - and the person who guesses how much I spent and comes the closest (in the case of a tie, I will take the lower figure but you can go over and still win if you are the closest)...will win...something. I haven't figured that out yet, and frankly have come to the end of this little energy boost.

So guess away...

All guesses in US$ please - my brain is too tired to convert... but I will accept guesses from non-US participants.

Include the tax in your guess ... NY state - will let you figure out what that is...

Oh yeah - the hints....

I purchased:
enough yardage for a throw quilt top - including borders and binding but not backing or batting
a fun Halloween panel
5 fat quarters
one Micron pen
pillowcase fabric - cuff and body
three 1/4 yard cuts for turtle backs
1 yard for an eye-spy quilt for the Munchkin
and a jacket pattern...
...oh, and another 1/4 yard of some queenly fabric

to throw a wrench in the works -some, but not all, of this was on sale.

Happy Guessing!

PS - I guess I should set a cut-off date for guesses
- so since I went shop hopping last Wednesday, I will cut things off THIS Wednesday (October 8th) at 2:30 PM, which is about when I shifted from shop hopping mode to conference planning and executing mode.