Thrifty Thursday

Welcome to Thrifty Thursday hosted by Leigh! This is my Thrift Store "Fabric" Edition. Years ago I was just learning to love thrifting and I was also learning to work on costumes for the Victorian Porch Tour. My friend, who was the costume chairperson, taught me to shop for fabric at thrift stores. You can get great, expensive and vintage fabric by looking through the cloths and linens! Last week I bought these 3 things with ulterior motives-

An apron and a towel (new) that has mis/monograms on them and a linen skirt. I was going to use the apron for a pattern but the monogram was easy to pick out so I did. I remonogrammed my own initials and added some ribbon to make it my own. Total cost $3.99

Same with this wrap around towel. Cost $4.99 I'll use it as a swim suit cover-up this year. It already has the cute zebra ribbon and the elastic and Velcro top. I just had to redo the monogram. At first I was going to cut it off - it is very hard to take the monogram off terrycloth! But it came off .....eventually!

I got a remnant of burlap that I used to make this pillow. It has ribbons woven into the fabric where I pulled out threads! Look at this post by The Country Chic Cottage to see how it is done!

I've been so inspired to make pillows by Rhonda of Blue Creek Home lately. She has a giveaway going on right now! I noticed that she used a stencil that I had on one of her pillows. I just needed some linen. Have you priced it in fabric stores? $21.99 a yard!!!! Not Thrifty!!! So the third thing I bought at the thrift store was a $.50 linen skirt!!! It was a wrap skirt so I got at least a yard. Always look at the larger size skirts and dresses to get the most fabric for your $$$.

I paired the linen with some black and white check I had. Wish I had taken a picture of the back! I used the hem of the skirt, overlapped the back pieces and used the buttons that were on the skirt to close the pillow! Nothing goes to waste!

Still using that same skirt and a different stencil, I made this applique to put on this burlap pillow. I dug in my button jar for some vintage buttons to anchor it.

I really had fun playing with pillows this week! In fact, I went back to fabric shop again and bought a great white cotton skirt with hemstitch embroidery and a pleated ruffle....and a huge natural tent like linen dress! More fun!!!!!