Originally Posted by
TeresaA
So Iceblossom, I live near Seattle as well, and would love to know which thrift stores you visit. I've gone to several and frequently find things priced for our affluent area. I hardly ever find treasures like the one you're showing. So where to you go!
I'm willing to share! It's been the Covington/Maple Valley store (not the Kent store) that's been giving me the good stuff lately and where I got the two treasures in this thread
Earlier this year/last year I also got a ton of my Pfaltzgraf Yorktown dishes there. I somewhat regularly go to the big Goodwill downtown at Dearborn, but haven't had much good luck there recently. I live in Renton, and very rarely find anything I'm interested in at "my" store, but often get yarn there and there is usually fabric, just not quilting/not things I'm interested in. Been having pretty good fabric luck at the St Vincent's in Renton as well. picked up a bag not worth bragging about there a week or so ago as well as a really nice piece of yardage of tiny little daisies on a red background. I also check the Southcenter location on a regular basis, it's in between Costco and the big Joann's so on my route of places to go.
Last week I found out the Bellevue Goodwill location has closed, guess I'm going to have to visit the Redmond location now instead.
One of the ladies in my small group has been having much better luck finding vintage fabrics at thrift stores lately, I never find them any more -- guess she gets there ahead of me!
The thing about the thrift shops is it does help if you go regularly. Back when I was actively collecting vintage fabrics I had a route I did on Thursdays (when tag days start at Goodwill). It's sort of fun when you start to recognize the other collectors, would chat with some of the other vinyl record people in particular.