I finally got a yard sale find!
05-13-2011, 11:32 PM
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Wow! I was on my way home from taking the kids to school this morning and there at the entry to my own neighborhood was a yard sale sign that said there was fabric! Well, it turned out the lady having the sale was friends with a doll maker here in the area who died a couple of years ago. She took a bunch of fabric and stuff off the family's hands and had decided to not hold onto it any longer. There was a box of treasures for $5 which I snatched without even really looking through it because it was borders or parts of costumes pieced with tiny angles and decorative stitches and such. I will have to post pics of some of this woman's tiny piecing. Then I got 13 yards of batiks, Jenny Beyer and other nice fabrics for $7 and eight feedsacks for $1 each! And I got first pick! After I got my haul home, I decided to go through it a little. That made me regret having put one of the fabrics back because it was used in some cool pieced borders. When I went back, not only was that cut gone, but so was the whole box of feedsacks I hadn't gotten! Whew! That was close! The only problem is they smell like old smoke. So I will need to remedy that at some point. Several of the feedsacks still have the string at the top in places!
05-14-2011, 12:43 AM
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put the fabs into the washing machine. obviously, for the vintage fabs you will want to use a gentle cycle and a gentle detergent. when the water has filled up, and the machine starts agitating, add 1/4 cup ammonia.
i will never understand how something that smells so foul can remove odors, but it works.
i will never understand how something that smells so foul can remove odors, but it works.
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