A few weeks ago, I went to the Salvation Army Family Store on Rising Sun Ave in Philadelphia while I was out of town visiting friends. While looking for furniture, I found what appeared to be a lovely end table. It ended up being a closed sewing machine cabinet with a Franklin De Luxe Rotary [...]
Satin stitch has to be my favorite embroidery technique. Of course, it takes up the most floss and the most time, but I think the returns warrant the extra effort and supplies.
As I promised here, I would show you a thrifty project soon. I’m using one of the $1 pillow cases and “coloring in” the [...]
I recently went on a “spending spree” in my neighborhood thrift stores. Our little corner of DC is lucky enough to have three right along the same street within 4 blocks or four-tenths of a mile of each other (I will list them at the end of the post)
So here is my haul:
And here is [...]