thrift shop lately has been a little predictable. natural linen. some silk. actually a very beautiful man's silk shirt.....BUT, this week we have these:
this shirt/jacket is corderoy. i have not owned anything corderoy in YEARS and i don't love the color, BUT, the double yoke is just so great and unusual....am wondering how i can change the color???????? and then this so totally great very used denim skirt...with these gussets!!! i think that's what we call them?...i sewed a thread through and wounding it on the beam so you can see.... but...hmmm...it's for a tall woman, which would not be me....i could wear it as a dress, really, if i sewed on spagetti straps...and it has a waistband and a zipper, so...how do i shorten it??? if i cut it shorter at the bottom, i will lose the beautiful effect of the gussets??????????? and then:
an amazing wool blanket. amazing for a couple reasons, the first being that it is two colors. and it appears that the two seperate colors of wool were "felted" together? i've never seen a blanket like this. and then, look at the binding...it is SO worn....but, when removed, it's just this totally wonderful fragment...worn, but not weak. what on earth could have worn those edges like this? and then
what is one woman's pale is an other's Perfection. These from Deb Lacativa arrived today. i sit and stare at them, holding them, looking back and front and see so so so much in them. And already one piece is perfect for the cloth for Wendy's kids...for that horizontal piece across the top. Perfect.
so it's a very good day and on the horizon a storm makes its presence known and the Mocking Birds are pretending to be the little finches that are coming for the sunflower seeds. Life is Good.
