long time with no thrifting

I haven’t been thrifting in a very long time, I guess I just got tired of buying interesting things that I don’t really need. When I spot something I just “have to have,” I ask myself, “The next time I move, is that going to go with me?” and if I have to admit it’s [...]

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at the antique show (trailers)

There’s something about aluminum tear-drop trailers that is so much fun. Wouldn’t it be great to have one and belong to a caravan club? Instant friends and destinations! Several trailers, not necessarily tear-drops, but mini-minis, were at the show and displayed so you could view their gussied-up interiors. I’ll start with the turquoise trailer. You [...]

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thrifting: kids patterns

I never find old patterns. Almost never. But when I do, they are kids’ patterns. That’s fine, I’ll buy them. I’ll put them aside, and who knows — maybe sell them in another 10 years when they are even older. These were all bundled together, so I could see the pajamas (which is what I [...]

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sewing: musing about embroidery floss

I pick up embroidery floss whenever I see it while out thrifting. I picked up a whole, filled bead-box with about 100 colors for $4.50 one time. Maybe even more colors than that. So that’s about four cents a skein, while nowadays a skein retails for about thirty-five cents. It’s not like floss is going to [...]

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thrifting: Bucilla pillowcase pair

Yay, I finally thrifted a pillowcase blank where the manufacturer is legible! Bucilla, and they have a lot of options available for sale on the web. These are my favorite pillowcase blanks to find, because the cotton is the best quality and the designs are significantly more intricate than their competitors. But I’d never found [...]

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Thrifty Thursday: lots of finds!

My sewing machine finally could not be coaxed into a consistent tension (all those awful loops disfiguring the back side) so I took it into town for a maintenance check. If there’s little bits of fuzz somewhere fouling up the works, I could not find it – but maybe a professional can figure it out! [...]

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score! beautiful tablecloth while thrifting

I haven’t been thrifting much lately, because as I said, once you have everything you need, it doesn’t make sense to keep buying more stuff even though something is cheap or old. But I can’t say no to old linens, and this tablecloth is like-new gorgeous! I am guessing it is from the 1950s or [...]

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long time projects

I picked up an old table while out thrifting about two years ago. I knew it had potential, but wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with it. Most GoodWill furniture is of crummy quality or is unfixably dinged up, but this table had remarkably few scuffs and chips. So into the garage it went [...]

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thrifting: pink gingham apron

Things have been slow on the thrifting front, but I did find a sweet pink apron. There’s chicken-scratching (is that what those white stitches are called? My mind is blank, if that’s not right) around the hem, and lots of pink rickrack. Rickrack seems to be the trim of choice for aprons. Up it will [...]

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thrifting: stylecraft cups

Can you believe I found a whole set of these cups, and they aren’t chipped and the handles aren’t broken??? I’m not 100% sure they really are Stylecraft because they aren’t marked on the bottom; they say only Japan. But wow–I find one of these cups every six months or so, and now a whole [...]

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