23 June 2011

A new thrift shop....


Always a thrill when I stumble across a new thrift shop. This was on the way to our cabin. I scored big time on the scarves.


including this Richard Allen. I believe he designed for Jacqmar and I have several tucked away somewhere. I will try to collect them together and list them on flickr.


Unfortunately, in my excitement, and given the fact that I had a very impatient R sitting in the car, I made quite a few mistakes....as in this interesting Sorbonne scarf that has tons of color bleed. Still, they will all go into my craft box.
No Hermes or Liberty, unlike Scarlett who picked a winner this week.


Scooped up some delightful, sell able fabrics, like this 1970s piece




4 yards of quilting cotton and some ticking...one is a pillowcase and quite old I think. The other is a remnant and I never know whether to even it out.... as it is quite difficult to describe or show a piece that is cut into.
I will certainly make a return visit as I spied a great pile of old blankets .... next time I will allot more time


Once at the cabin I mended this 30s star quilt as much as I could ....I am not an expert restorer. Already up on etsy, although I do not know why I am bothering to list when the postal strike is ongoing.

4 comments:

  1. Great finds! That's also a lovely quilt.

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  2. great finds... always love a new scarf stash find. Richard Allan's scarves seem to be well collected, I have had several over the years and always sold first time up on eBay. His designs are bold and his signature scarves are top quality. I know the ones sold in Australia all have good retail shop names in the 'designed exclusively for..... by Richard Allan'

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  3. you're certainly an expert when it comes to treasure hunting!

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  4. I am always on the look out for thrift shops too! What a wonderful find you had.

    We'll have to chat sometime soon too about the spinning I've been doing. I think you would love doing it. Really quite easy once you get going!

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