I had a hankering today to peruse my local thrift store (thankfully, or perhaps dangerously, it is literally nextdoor to my building). I was thinking about searching through all the sheets to find some nice fabrics worth salvaging. And I found three! I also found what appeared to me to be the mother load of bias tape, among other sewing notions. Here’s all the stuff I got:
All the notions I scored (plus one skein of yarn)! So much bias tape… some of it still in its original packaging! Awesome.
The three great patterns I found among the sheets. I also got a white sheet to cut up and make bias tape with, but plain white isn’t really worth photographing…
I gotta say, I’m feeling pretty thrifty, admiring my stash of goodies. I spent under $25 for all this (and the four sheets alone were about $13 of that)! Can’t wait to see what comes of it all!
a stitch in lime 
June 25, 2010 at 11:15 pm
well done!!! don’t you just love thrift shops!
June 26, 2010 at 8:59 am
I really, really do. I’m so happy I live nextdoor to one!
June 26, 2010 at 7:41 am
I heart a good deal so hard. As a sewing no0b, I am curious: tell me more about bias tape…
June 26, 2010 at 9:21 am
It’s a strip of fabric cut ‘on the bias’ — so diagonally with respect to the grain of the fabric, which makes it stretchy. So it’s used to stabilize curves and corners, since it can stretch without puckering. It’s usually pre-ironed and sold with a single fold (both of the raw edges ironed in towards the centre) or double-fold (raw edges ironed in, then a crease in the centre as well). So it’s good for wrapping around the edge of a fabric, and can be a nice decorative border for things like blankets and hems, too. 🙂
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