{"id":2220,"date":"2011-04-18T08:39:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T13:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/?p=2220"},"modified":"2011-04-18T08:39:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T13:39:17","slug":"thrifted-craft-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/18\/thrifted-craft-supplies\/","title":{"rendered":"thrifted: craft supplies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/5629202921\/\" title=\"knitting needles and doilies by yarnattacks, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5030\/5629202921_69cd4498ab.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"knitting needles and doilies\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Before 7am on Saturday morning, I was setting up a little garage sale with my madre. I was semi-successful in getting rid of old clothes and stuff. Enough to make me look forward to a future garage sale and de-cluttering the downstairs walk-in, which was the place we hid our non-essentials when we first moved in. Even my son made a couple of bucks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/5629180585\/in\/photostream\/\">selling his toys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After we finished packing some stuff up, I took a shower and we headed to our favorite thrift store about an hour before close. It&#8217;s a ministry shop, so there&#8217;s always new things and usually my favorite types&#8211;stuff from an old lady&#8217;s craft basket.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/5629783372\/\" title=\"doily closeups by yarnattacks, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5109\/5629783372_f4bfd3ed7b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"doily closeups\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/15\/sunshine-resale\/\">Sunshine<\/a> did not disappoint! I found: a little box full of crocheted lace (doilies and collars), a few sets of knitting needles, including 4 sets of DPNs and a circular, and some embroidery floss.<\/p>\n<p>We headed across town to my uncle&#8217;s house and stopped at a thrift store we used to go to every weekend. There, I found this old plastic faux-woven box, a pyrex fridgie, a few bags of needlepoint supplies (wool &#038; canvas!), 3 fabric button kits, a polaroid camera, a sun tea pitcher, and more.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/5629203907\/\" title=\"107.365: crafty thrift scores by yarnattacks, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5181\/5629203907_20eb4838a7.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"340\" alt=\"107.365: crafty thrift scores\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It was definitely my lucky day in terms of craft supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Later, I&#8217;ll share a new hat! The shape of the week (maybe month, now?) was triangles. Andrew is pretty good with shapes, so I tried getting him to draw one. No luck, but he likes pointing them out, so that&#8217;s good. Anyway, I did some needlepoint triangles last weekend and this past weekend I knit some. More details later!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5030\/5629202921_69cd4498ab.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"knitting needles and doilies\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Before 7am on Saturday morning, I was setting up a little garage sale with my madre. I was semi-successful in getting rid of old clothes and stuff. Enough to make me look forward to a future garage sale and de-cluttering the downstairs walk-in, which was the place we hid our non-essentials when we first moved in. 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