Op Shopping

I spent the day with friends up at Toowoomba. I spent money in patchwork shops and we went to St. Vinnies Op shop.  This is the place for Op shopping.  I needed more time, there are lots of Op shops I didn't get to.

They had a half price sale on today so all the embroidered doilies were 50 cents each!!!  Can you believe it?  I really picked the work over and only choose those pieces that were well stitched.  Some pieces I know what I will do with. 

These sandwich plate doilies are going to be needle cases.

These I will use for quilt labels.  (Who ever stitched them used two different coloured greens.)

       

This I will use on pockets on a little girls skirt.

The stitching and crocheted edge on this one are really nice.  Don't know what I am going to do with it as it is too good to cut up.

These two are so horrible that I love them and the stitching is well done in sections.

These last two pieces are going to my friend at the Museum. The lace work looks like a mixture of bobbin and needle lace and has been made especially for this piece.  I will starch and block it so that the lace sits correctly first.

I bought all these pieces for the grand total of $4.50.  I'm going back!

Comments

[shirley bligh]

You have such interesting things on your site. I love reading all the things you write about.

The lovely doileys are a find. My grandmother had some similar if not the same as the white ones at the bottom.