Skip to main content

Lucky 13

Today is supposedly the first day of fall, so it's time to get busy on my holiday projects. Although I'm finished thrifting fabric -- at least for a few years -- I needed some thread, which isn't getting any cheaper these days. What I was looking for was included in a seven pound craft lot that cost me $13.00 plus shipping. Let's unpack it and see what more I got.

The original owner must have embroidered; there are two hoops, two small sharp scissors and a brand-new Crayola 24 skein thread pack. Some kits also came with the lot; a crewel that has already been started, a small beginner macrame (which I've never done) that is new, and a small diamond art kit. On the latter, I said I'd never do one again after that dragon I made, but if everything is in the kit I'll give it another go.

The thread was perfect -- 77 clean, mostly full spools in white, black, blues, pastels and a few greens and reds. There were also some old fashioned metal bobbins with thread still on them. Most are Coats & Clark Dual Duty.

There were six spools of Gutermann thread, which definitely is not cheap, and one Aurifil still sealed in plastic.

The bag of notions, unloaded. There are zippers, several packs of elastic, a beautiful pair of Fiskar pinking shears, a ball of twine, specialty hooks and lots of embroidery thread and yarn. Four large spools of neutral-color serger thread came with the lot as well, and these will come in very handy for me as basting thread.

The oddities from this lot are three of the oldest and tiniest crochet hooks I've ever seen, and a brand new wrap around bun maker for hair.

The diamond painting kit does have all the drills and pieces still sealed, so I guess I'll be making this, too. Sigh.

At least it's a sunflower, which I like, and it's not huge. Stop in tomorrow for the numbers.

Labels

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Other Stashes

Along with clearing out the spare bedroom and tidying my office and our guest bedroom, I decided to reorganize some of my stashes. This is all the yarn I have on hand, sorted by color. It looks like a lot, but lately I've been using up a minimum of half a bin every month, so this is approximately a year's supply. All of my solid color cotton perle thread. I go through a lot of this every year, too. I need a container in which I can fit all of it together, but I haven't found the right one yet. I won't show you all of my fabric -- I'm still reorganizing this stash -- but I went through everything and donated two bins of fabric I won't need to the local quilter's guild.
Post a Comment
Read more

Downsizing

This was my fabric stash once I sorted everything -- 22 full bins. I spent a day taking out and boxing up what I could part with, with the goal of trying to reduce it by half, so I'd have 11 bins. I was very strict with myself, and removed everything that for one reason or another I was sure I wouldn't be able to use. This is what I ended up with -- 12 bins of fabric that I'm keeping. It's not quite half, but close enough. Half of what I took out went to a local quilter friend, a school and Goodwill. These four tightly-packed bins will be going to the local quilting guild once I make arrangements with them for a drop-off place. I am relieved and a little sad and now determined to control my impulses to thrift more fabric. I don't want to do this again, so until I use up six bins, I can't for any reason bring any new fabric into the house.
Post a Comment
Read more

In Progress

I promised myself I would show you the good, bad and ugly of my cleaning this year. This is what it looks like when you dump thirty years' worth of stashed fabric on the floor -- and oy, what a pain in the butt to pick up again! This is what it looks like after it's been sorted, folded and placed in containers, which took me about a week. Now the hard part is to downsize my stash by at least half, I think (that's my goal, anyway.) I've already e-mailed the president of the local quilting guild, a local friend who is a quilter, and a public school art teacher I know to see if I can donate some of the excess to them. The rest will go to Goodwill. Already I've reduced my vintage textiles from two bins to one, and my scraps from three bins to one. It's probably the hardest clean-out I've done, which is why I saved it until last. I know I have too much fabric, more than I can use in my lifetime -- but at the same time, I love it. So I have to...
Post a Comment
Read more