Saturday morning and I was standing in Borders, seriously tempted by Selvedge. If any of you haven't come across it Selvedge is a fabulous magazine, full of luscious photographs of textiles from all over the world. Only it's expensive for a magazine, and I'm trying to save money. But it is lovely ... might go back tomorrow and buy it.
I did mooch around a craft store and buy more Anchor tapestry wool - two skeins of peachy orange and a skein of banana yellow. No matter how much wool or thread you have, there's always room for more, isn't there?
My wanderings also took me to a charity (thift) shop or two. Sometimes you can't find a thing you would give house room to, but occasionally careful browsing can yield up some treasures. One of my past favourites was an indifferent looking embroidered box I found which had been sellotaped together. Peering inside I saw someone's button collection. Maybe the former owner didn't sew any more? Or perhaps they were being ruthless in their de-cluttering. Either way for £2.00 I got a great collection of new and vintage buttons, many really pretty. Another charity shop yielded another bag of buttons, mainly in pinks and reds, my favourite colours. Some buttons were still fixed to their original cards. Peach coloured buttons with the trade name Glamor, originally sold for 2 shillings. Another pearly pink selection was labeled Bond Street Fashionable Buttons. More Glamor buttons, this time 5 cherry red ones had cost 11p in days gone by.
I've collected various sets of cups and saucers from charity shops, most of which are stuck in cupboards as there's no room to display them. These six Midwinter cups and matching saucers worked out at fifty pence each, and I could probably sell them on for a tidy profit on Ebay. But I like them, so they're staying put.
P.S. The first picture of the quilt features hidden treasure in its own way, the treasure being my cat Caesar. He seems to have claimed this small dotty quilt for his own.
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