And lemme tell ya. The thrift store? On half-price day? Freaking insane. There weren't even any signs or anything, but everyone seemed to know about it. I heard someone say they'd heard it on the radio.
I saw a guy examining a pressure cooker. I was thinking I should point out that it was missing the little wobbly piece on top, when I noticed he already had five other pressure cookers in his basket. I think he probably knows how they work. Also, did you know you can get fake trees at the thrift store? Well, you can:
That whole long aisle you see - that's just the women's sweater aisle. And this is only the women's sweater aisle in one of the two stores. The other one has just as many. (For reasons that are unclear, my thrift store actually consists of two separate giant thrift stores under one roof.)
They had about 20 checkout lines open. (Just on the one side - who knows how many more on the other.) It was pretty excellent. I got a bunch more sweaters. This is the haul I picked up the last time I was there:
More cute scarves, comin' up! Ah, thrift store, how I love thee.
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I too love thrift stores, sometimes wiling away the first half of a Saturday morning visiting all three Goodwills. I realized the other day that when I get dressed, there's a good chance I'm wearing everything but jeans from a thrift store. Madison's a fantastic city for it - a wealthy, liberal population means lots of expensive clothes going to charity.
I'm inspired to blog a photo of my thrift-store wardrobe. M.Bro was just talking about sorting out the summer clothes she wants to keep, so maybe I'll take pictures while she's cleaning her side of the closet.
I just realized that what I don't buy from thrift stores, I often buy using the profits from reselling things I find that are too big for me. I buy too many clothes, but it's an internally-funded hobby. Like cycling would be if I won races.
the best thing i've picked up from the Goodwill in a really long time are my new rollerblades for a dollar. a-mazing!
The GF is a *huge* fan of thrift store shopping. I can't bring myself to buy clothes there because I cant' help but wonder if they guy who owned it first was all sweaty and gross - or a leper.
But I do enjoy looking at all the non-clothes stuff. It's like a huge garage sale!
Dude - I'm pretty sure sweat, grossness, and leprosy all come out in the wash.
You need to drag me along some time you go thrifting... Especially because if I do manage to make this little house adventure work out, I'm going to be dirt. ass. po'. for a year or more while the pendulum tries to find the middle again...
I like the sweaters. You should make a girly rainbow striped scarf with long strips sewn together horizontally and vertically!!
(...she said without ever having crafted anything :D)
I did make a rainbow scarf for G-dog, but all the stripes run the same way...what do you mean horizontally and vertically?
We can SO have a thrift store adventure. I love that place, I'll go any time (until the county zoning people shut it down, which may happen).
Nice sweaters! Who on earth would need 5 pressure cookers?
Ok...hmm...fun experiment with ASCII art...
Standard TOWWAS scarf...yes?
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IBYB wondering re: horizontal and vertical seams:
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That is very nice ASCII art! But, uh, I still don't get it.
TH - Maybe he's opening a restaurant. He was going for another one when I walked away....
Ok...let me try again (mostly because this is *way* more fun than working)...
Standard Rainbow (where red = R, blue = B and green = G and a seam is a ----) :
RRRRRR
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BBBBBB
BBBBBB
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GGGGGG
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Fancy horizontal + vertical rainbow question (same key as above, only yellow = Y and a vertical seam = |):
RR|BB|GG
RR|BB|GG
RR|BB|GG
RR|BB|GG
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YY|RR|BB
YY|RR|BB
YY|RR|BB
YY|RR|BB
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GG|YY|RR
GG|YY|RR
GG|YY|RR
GG|YY|RR
See? Two way seams. Might be too patchworky...but that was the idea...whenever it was that the idea struck me. Heh. :)
Ohhhh, I get it. Yeah, that's beyond my scarf skills at the moment - I think the extra vertical seams might make it too stiff? I dunno, maybe I'll give it a shot later. Eventually I'm going to be drowning in felt scraps, and I have to find *something* to do with them.
Yeah, I can see that. I wonder if you could sort of whip the edges together instead of an overlapping seam? I dunno...and my sewing is *very* rudimentary, so I'm not sure I could help.
But a patchwork scrap scarf would be very cool if you could figure out how to do it! Maybe you could start small? I know a couple of little people who probably don't have scarves who would think a Miss TOWWAS scarf would be the bees knees! ;)
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