I don't know how long it's been since Ikea opened a store only 40 minutes from my house, but it's been quite a while. Until yesterday, I still hadn't gone. I was afraid I wasn't strong enough. I was terrified of Ikea. Because I knew I'd want everything there. And, as you may know, I'm not so great in the self-control department sometimes. However, yesterday I steeled myself and drove down. And I didn't do that bad! I came out with a couple bright red trash cans for my sewing room ($1.99!!), a plant stand that I plan to spray paint red (because I like to spray paint things red!), some great little juice glasses, some kitchen towels, a fun apron, and 3 cuts of fabric (I'll admit - that might have been my biggest reason for wanting to go!) It's surprisingly heavy nice stuff for the price - $5.99 - $8.99/yd! I decided that one piece needed to be a new curtain for my dining room.
It's like a self-illuminating curtain! Faaaanastic! I love it.
I also got a couple yards of this:
It's thinner, and honestly I kind of want to make a pinafore-ish dress with it. Not a frilly thing, but sort of a dress layering piece - sort of like a tunic is sometimes a layering piece for another shirt. I don't know how to explain it, and honestly it'll probably just sit in my fabric stash for 5 years until I decide to use it for something entirely different!
It's thinner, and honestly I kind of want to make a pinafore-ish dress with it. Not a frilly thing, but sort of a dress layering piece - sort of like a tunic is sometimes a layering piece for another shirt. I don't know how to explain it, and honestly it'll probably just sit in my fabric stash for 5 years until I decide to use it for something entirely different!
Don't know what I'll do with it, but it sure is fun! I think it might be a wall hanging to cover an odd plumbing access door. I'll probably make a big wooden frame and stretch the fabric around the edges like a canvas. Yeah, I conquered Ikea and had fun at the same time! Oh, I also got some lingonberry jam - mmmm!
Today, because it's President's day and I didn't have to work, I ran over to the Corner Cupboard - an odd little thrift shop plunked in the middle of a neighborhood (I suppose that shouldn't seem odd - in old neighborhoods like mine, that was the way business often were - a little grocery on the corner, a barbershop in the middle of other houses. Very mixed use. We're just so used to strip malls now, I guess, that such things seem weird.) Anyway, it's very tiny, but there was a whole section with cuts of fabric (lots of stretch polyester!) bins of old zippers, ribbon, craft supplies, etc. There were a couple bags of yarn, but most were acrylics. I did find a bag, however, with a big mess of grey fingering weight wool (no ball band - just a "mess" of it, which I realized was still in hanks after I took it out of the bag and twisted it up, and also found one ball that someone had already wound up), one skein of tan-ish vintage Bernat fingering weight, and one unlabeled skein of green mystery stuff (which, after I took it out of the bag, appeared to have either been randomly snipped up, or had been attacked by moths, though I wasn't sure it really felt like wool. Either way, I decided it wasn't worth the trouble/risk, and threw it out.) Get this - all that for 69 cents!
I'm not super crazy about either color, but they're both light enough that they could be easily overdyed. The hanks of grey wool are a little coarse and shetland-ish so I think they'll be great for some colorwork - maybe a pair of Selbuvotter gloves or something! I'm pretty jazzed!
3 comments:
OOOh! Chris! Where is this thrift store? I always seem to go to the same ones and I've been wanting to try some new ones!
And IKEA. Oh my. I love that place. I just went on Thursday. Actually I've been meaning to chat with you about a little sewing project for something I bought there!
Love the new curtain. Really really love that second leafy fabric that you want to make into a tunic like thing.
I heart your new curtains! ...and both the other fabrics (and I agree; most everything looks good spray painted red)
Catherine
p.s. - was tickled to see the wrist pincushion in use :o)
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