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Whats your favourite op shop? Mine are the ones in Bega, NSW. I haven’t had a dud haul yet. We were in Bega recently visiting the in-laws and I was lucky enough to have some spare time to pop into a couple. I ended up getting some great books.
A 1977 Readers Digest Complete Guide to Sewing. I already have a general garment sewing book, but this is loads better, every page is full of diagrams of everything from sewing on a button, to more detailed sewing processes. Christy has the same copy and rates it highly.
A Soft toy book and the sweetest cross stitch design book, here are some of the designs in it
Cadel wants me to make the train cross stitch for him, and Hamish wants the truck. I wish one of them wanted the sweet bear/ mouse above though!
a huge stack of Golden Hands books, I now have nearly all of them up to 20. These book are fantastic for the amount of detail and variety of crafts that they include. You can see more images from these on my flickr stream.
I also got these super cute plates for the kids
And some lovely old books for them as well
And a couple of smaller ones that made the long car trip home with them more bearable.
Sydney peeps, I am looking for op shop recommendations because so far as I can tell my local ones are full of overpriced junk.
Rachel
So back while we were away after finishing these cross stitches I decided to do more. I started thinking about Robots and designed and stitched this.
I was so pleased with it… its even cuter in person… that I wrote it up as a pattern.
The PDF pattern features a complete chart with colour guide, and separate charts for all 26 letters of the alphabet so that you can monogram it for your little one.
It also has instructions for cross stitching if you’ve never cross stitched before.
It along with Moby is available in my Etsy shop.
Rachel
One of the thing I was most looking forward to while we were on holiday was op shopping. You see I’m, not a sun and sand kind of girl, I way too pale for all of that. I had visions of country op shops filled to the brim with the most spectacular vintage sheets. After a discussion with my horrified husband we agreed that I would be allowed to visit one op shop per day or 8 over the total trip.
Well I must say op shopping in general was disappointing. In Townsville they weren’t terribly exciting, and in the country areas they seemed to close very early. In fact in Charters Towers they closed at 11am on a weekday. I didn’t purchase a single sheet, I did however find lots of great old kids books.
These ones were from an Op shop in Ingham for $2.
And these were from a Oppy in Townsville. I especially love “The house in the the tree”, the illustrations are so organic, and inspiring.
I also did a lot of cross stitching while we were away. I hadn’t done it for years but thought it would be a good easy project for a holiday. I started with these super simple ones, which I plan to put on the wall when I find it a good spot. The patterns were purchased from andwasabi
Rachel
