Vintage Sewing Notions - Vintage Thrifting Weekend

Hi Friends, 

 I'm so glad your here! 

Today, I'm so excited to share a little tip for you creative crafters. The thrift store is the best place to find affordable sewing notions,

I gave a $1.00 for this 'Bag of Sewing Notions', because there were a few vintage items I could add to my Vintage Sewing Notions collection.

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- cute little pink cloth strawberry pin cushion

- a tape measure and button card with vintage advertisement, look at the graphic on the card, awesome!

 - a couple of thimbles

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Look at all the useful sewing notions that I will be able to use 

sewing bobbins, extra spools of thread,

 fusing tape, Singer sewing machine needles, and a functional wrist-pin cushion, all for a $1.00

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Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to stop by 'My Little Colorado Cottage'.

 I would love to hear do you buy your sewing notions at thrift stores or yard sales.

 So until my next post...... 

May God Bless You and Your Family,

 I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

I found some Wonderful Sewing Notions While Out Thrifting 12-29-2023

Hi Friends, 

 I'm so glad your here! 

Today, I'm so excited to share a Sewing Notions thrift haul.

I found two bundles of cotton gingham fabric for rustic country cottage crafting

the $ 4.00 bundle has 14 flat folds

and the $1.50 bundle has 3 flat fold pieces 

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I also found a 50 cents box of sequins for adding sparkle to my crafts, 

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I was super excited to find another Tomatoe Pincushion, a scrap of 2" Silver Ribbon, and  a scrap of 2 1/2" Poinsettia Print Ribbon.

I'll be putting the ribbon in to my ribbon stash for future projects

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Lastly, I picked up a Pillow cover sewing kit, I thought the green material was felt, however, when I looked closer it was cotton with a cross-stitch pattern.  I'm thinking it might be a good gift for a friend or I might just use the kit for other sewing projects, we'll see!

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 Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to stop by to see what treasures I have found out thrifting this week. 

 I would love to hear what you have found thrifting and how you style it in your home. 

 So until my next post...... 

May God Bless You and Your Family, I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Friday Vintage Thrifting - So Many Sewing Notions

Hi Friends, 

 I'm so glad your here! Today, sharing what I found at my local vintage thrift store

This particular day, it didn't seem like there were any new and reasonably priced treasures to be found!

A second time through, I notice a large basket of grab bags in the sewing area.

This bag looked interesting for $3.00. Is that a little sewing basket?

Isn't this little basket cute?  

Inside this cute basket were odds & ends

fabric swatches, buttons, packet of sewing needles, tiny brash safety pins,

measuring tape, 6" ruler and a metal shoe horn with advertising!

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some other items in the grab-bag were wooden thread spools, a tweezer, coarse black thread, spool of pink ribbon, buttons, and a little seam ripper

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 Second grab bag for $2.50 .....

Had more sewing notions

rick-rack, pocket liners, thick black thread,

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a nice bundle of red and white ruffle lace trim,

 vintage black and red type writer ribbon,

1-inch elastic waist band on a card, 1/4-inch elastic bundle,

and a interesting 'Moppolls' instruction sheet.

I remember back in the 80's or 90's this craft project was a favorite in all the craft fair shows.

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Also in the grab-bag....

was this cute little 1960's Childs Sundress Pattern

Also a pattern to embroider the flowers on the front of the dress

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The favorite of this grab-bag is the Cross and Crown Quilt pattern with templates!

I was so glad to have the opportunity to stopped by my local vintage thrift store today.

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 Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to stop by to see what treasures I have found out thrifting this week. 

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 I would love to hear what you have found thrifting and how you have used or styled it in your home. 

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 So until my next post...... 

May God Bless You and Your Family,

 I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Thrifting for Vintage Treasures at Two Local Thrift/Vintage Stores

 Hi Friends,

 I stopped by the local thrift store and found a few treasures I'm excited to show off! 

I saw a vintage sewing machine cabinet very plain with a sewing machine they wanted $150.00 and it didn't work and the cabinet wasn't even pretty. I'm going to give it a couple of weeks or so and go back and give an offer I think.

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Local Budget Center Thrift Store

First treasure I found is the terra cotta pots.  I've been collecting terra cotta pot for my herb garden.  When ever I see one reasonably priced I pick it up.  The two pots I found today, were $1.00 for the larger and $.50 for the smaller pot.  I'll be using these two terra cotta pot for herbs in the garden.

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As I walked in the door of the thrift store, there was a basket filled with cookies cutters priced from $1.50 to $2.75.

I was over the moon when I found these cookie cutter of the Peanuts characters.

  I was charged a total of $6.00 for all 13 cookie cutters.

I have a large jar above the kitchen cabinets that houses my collection of red Tupperware cookie cutters and HRM cookies cutters.

My Grandma had aluminum cookie cutter with the designs to make a gingerbread house I saw the gingerbread man cookie cutter, it brought back great memories cooking with my Grandma.

I have a large aluminum strainer above the kitchen cabinets where I store all of my aluminum cookie cutters, so I just added the new cookie cutter to the strainer. Also I placed the white mug -$.50- as well on the shelf.

 

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I have incorporated the little cobalt blue bottle -$1.00- into a Patriotic vignette for Memorial day vignette

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The sewing notions and embroidery hoop - all at $.25 each - hoop I placed in my sewing room with some other related sewing items.

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The bag of beads and brass bells, I'll stash them with my craft supplies for later use.

Vintage Thrift Store

Of course I had to stop by the local Vintage/Thrift Store to see what was new

I'm working on a laundry vignette and for $1.00, this blue compact clothes line will be a great addition to my laundry room when I get it done you'll be the first to have a look.

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I was looking through a box at the store that has a great selection of bottle openers and I found a wooden handle cork screw - $3.00. I have a small collection of bottle openers, I'll be adding to my barware collection 

and possibly the two handle item was - cigar cutter? nut cutter? pickle cutter? I spent a $1.00. Has anyone have one of these?  What is it used for?

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The Westcott wooden ruler that I found for $0.50.  I incorporated the ruler on a shelf in my computer area with other vintage school related treasures.

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The cute little aluminum sauce pan - $1.00, I picked up was incorporated with other vintage kitchen treasures above the kitchen cabinets.

This was a great haul and the items were not overly priced I don't think. I hope I gave you some inspiration on how to add some of your collected treasure and incorporate them into your every day décor.

My God Bless 
You and Your Family through these trouble times.

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett