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A record of my crafty projects

Friday, September 14, 2007

Lots of thrifting and treasures this week. I bought the beet, the pea pod and the carrot you see here a couple years ago when I was working at the nursery. There was a squash there too - but the week I decided to go ahead and buy these it was gone - someone bought it! After it sat there and collected dust for probably 3 years! So last week when I saw the squash at goodwill for $1.21 I grabbed it.

At a garage sale I found these - 32 cloth napkins made of linen - $2. Maybe a future embroidery project?
At the other goodwill - an apron kit from the fad-of-the-month club. Not even kidding, that is what it says. I love the little birdies, I guess there was whole co-ordinating set of pot holders, place mats, napkins, and the apron. I don't know about you, but I always make a point of matching what I wear with my pot holders and place mats!
Monday we visited our friends who now live in Athens, she gave me a box of fabric including this vintage pink/brown pattern. I have lots of ideas for things to make with it and probably won't run out, there are about 10 yards of it. Thanks Sondra!
A couple weeks ago I bought a bag of embroidery things at goodwill - I usually just buy the unfinished kits for the hoops and the unused floss - and this bit of yellow gingham with orange embroidery was in one of the bags. Today I made it into a wrap skirt for Hazel with some previously thrifted seam binding. She loves it - her favorite colors - and she said, "It's like one of those cooker skirts!" (She means an apron.)


And I made a wrap skirt for myself too - cut down from a muu-muu/housedress type thing that was in with the fabric from Sondra. It is a really cool patterned fabric, and now Hazel and I will be ready for our beach vacation coming up!

1 Comments:

At 8:51 AM, Blogger electricbluebird.com said...

OMG I so totally owe you an email! I love those fabrics! I dragged out my sewing machine and I've been poking around with stuff.

I am sorry I couldn't get out there Monday. I miss ya!

 

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