Thrifted Art Mags

The high price of magazines made me decide to bid on this collection of 30 vintage issues of Quilting Arts, dating from Spring 2002 to April/May 2010. I used to be able to afford an issue here and there of QA (and still pick up one now and then), but it was a bit too pricey for me to invest in a subscription. Anyway, no one challenged me for them, so I ended up winning the lot.

They arrived in pristine condition, with a few of these seasonal gift-making issues that I really like.

Here's everything that came. Each issue retailed for $7.99 new; to buy thirty of them back in the day would have set me back $239.70. I paid $14.99 for the lot, or about forty-nine cents per issue. Savings: $224.71

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Better than Fried

I cut some chives from the kitchen garden to make garlic-chive baked fries for dinner. This is a great side dish for veggie burgers. Click here for the recipe from Taste of Home.com.

Stuff

After finding this Caron one pound skein of lovely peach yarn in my thrifted lot I raided my stash for two cakes of Mandala in Pegasus, which matches it perfectly. For practice and hand therapy I'm going to make another Worth Street Afghan with this free pattern , but this time I'll use the yarn that was recommended for it plus the one pound skein. I'm not quite ready to do the vintage/recycled linen quilt I had planned (still a bit too nervous about the idea), so I'm going to use some color therapy and make a quilt from these thrifted green fat quarters. I considered doing another Yellow Brick road patchwork pattern, but I might go with a split rail fence like this one.

The Mercantile

If you don't mind walking 33K square feet in retail space, The Mercantile may be the vintage/arts store you'd enjoy visiting if you're ever in Orlando. I certainly did. Because it was busy I didn't take any photos in the store, but it's absolutely amazing and chock full of antiques and artisan creations, most of which were pretty reasonably priced. For $21.00 I invested in a picture of sailboats for the guest bathroom I'm redoing, and a fairy mystery jar of cool stuff. The jaw was hand-painted and decorated, and utterly charming. I think I wanted the jar more than the contents. As you can see the contents were both generous and pretty cool, too. I finally have some vintage gloves to use for my art quilter bingo challenge!

Rayen

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