Shabby Chic Thread?

cat64

Great finds Elaine:D

Bibbitybob

Elaine, those rose plates are gorgeous, and love the bench!!

I hit the carboot this morning, didn't get much but did get these two plates and the mug for £1 the lot.



Then I popped to Dunelm and found these oven gloves and tea towels to match my new kitchen.



And then this fabric was £1.99 a metre in the fabric shop across the road (if anyone knows S!!!!horpe, it's part of Roseby's, next to the Range!) so I boguht half a metre of these three.



Pretty pleased for a morning's work!

bibbly

Love the jug Bibbitybob, and the fabric is pretty. What are you going to use it for?

Bibbly
x (whenever I see your username I almost think it's mine, iyswim!!)

jamtart6

Lovely fabrics bibbitybob (great boot sale bargains too!). I might dig out some fabric to see what I have already got ! I love my renewed passion for crafting!

bibbly

Remember this ....

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250228854026&ssPageName=ADME:X:AAQ:GB:1123

I'd love to see someone DO something with it! I reckon that went for a really cheap price ... I had expected it to fetch more.

Bibbly
x

Bibbitybob

Bibbly I keep doing the same with your username!

I'm having a bit of a patchwork obsession at the moment, I thought it would be perfect for that. I made myself a business card holder last week, and just finished some bunting too.

Pipkin

That bunting is gorgeous!

Did you sew different fabric strips together to form the triangles?

Have you anymore close up pics of it?

vivw_2

elaine373 wrote: »

Hello,I went to a carboot sale today and got a few items.The candle stick cost me 50p, the staffordshire rose plates cost 50p each,
The mustard pot stand? cost 20p. The shaving pot cost a pound

The bench table was a bargain at 2.50 and the quilt cover was 3 pounds,

This large piece of gold coloured material was 20p as the man was packing up and selling everything for 20p.So all in all a good carboot sale.I do need to declutter because as you can see form the table bench picture i have too many pieces of junk, (Mainly the childrens)

Wonderful buys....love the pink plates. Believe the colmans stand is actually a tea pot stand. The Colmans Mustard shop in Norwich used to sell lots of advertising bits like that. When I was a student in the late 70s in Norwich I had quite a few of the old advertising posters they did

bibbly

They're lovely. I am SO desperate for a sewing machine.

I have NEVER SEWED ANYTHING in my LIFE before (truly, and I'm quite old lol), but at the weekend I had a practise and hand sewed these (oh, I have cross stitched btw!)

The problem was that the finish is really rough, after I had turned them back the right way to stuff them iyswim. Any tips?





So any of you clever lot can tell me how to get round that? Also what do you use to stuff things like this? (I'm not telling you what I used lolol!!)

Bibbly
x

vivw_2

Bibbitybob, I love the tea towels ....were they expensive?