Thrift Share Monday - April 30

Wow! Where did April go?  This month flew by.  It started out with great thrifting, had a lull in the middle and ended just as good as it started.  My scores started out early in the week with a great find at my favorite thrift store.  At one point last year I had decided that I was going to collect the butterfly gold Pyrex/Corning Ware for my own personal use.  This was...

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Thrift Share Monday...Opps Tuesday - April 24

Where is my thrifting mojo? It's garage sale season, as in Saturdays are flooded with garage sales, and for some reason or another I'm missing them. Two weekends ago, I had a garage sale so I missed out, yeah I got rid of some junk, but I really missed out on acquiring vintage junk.  This Saturday I was out an about early, but I hit up some venues missing out on actual garage sales.  So...

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Thread bunching issues fixed

Yay!  My sewing/thread bunching issues are fixed.  I don't know what fixed it, but one of the suggestions must have done the trick.  Such a relief. One thing I've never done on my machine is run something through the tension disk to make sure they are free of debris.  So that's a new trick/tip for me.  Thank you for helping me fix this. Here is what I did Replaced my needle...

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Sewers, I NEED your help!

OMG!  I'm seriously gonna lose it.  All day I've been working on some Lulu Pouches, and as easy as they were two days ago I'm doing my damnedest at making them difficult. It's not the pattern, it's me (haha).  I'm rushing through it, and putting wrong sides together (ugh), but that's not the main problem. My bottom thread is bushing up like a 70's Playboy model (tacky? if so...then...

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The Lulu Pouch

My other projects (WIP/UFO's) seem to be moving at a snails pace.  I've had flags/pendants for more bunting for almost a week now, but for what ever reason I haven't got around to the binding to string/sew the pendants together.  Ugh! I've also started some fabric nesting bowls, and for streamline reasons I've made about 6 small bowls, but now need the other 5 larger sizes.  Small,...

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Thrift Share Monday - April 16

Eek! My thrifting has been sparse, the last two weeks.  Soooo sad. (Scroll down if you want to jump right into my thrifted finds) Easter weekend me and my whole family (10 of us) rented a beach house in Galveston, which took away from potential good garage/estate sale/thrift finds at home.  I had hopes that I could make some scores while out of town, visions of vintage sheet scores from...

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