{"id":458,"date":"2006-03-28T09:14:18","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T14:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/weekend-fun\/"},"modified":"2006-03-28T09:14:18","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T14:14:18","slug":"weekend-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/weekend-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"weekend fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday, I drove out to Sturbridge to meet up with doll club friends and Susan Fosnot<\/a> for a fun day of shopping for doll stuff. We did this same expedition last year <\/a>when Susan was in town. Someday we might make it to some of the other stores in Sturbridge!<\/p>\n

We went to Wright’s Factory Outlet<\/a> where I got brown rickrack (10 packages for $1), crewel needles (3 packages for $1), sheets of plastic that are used by quilters to make templates and you can iron on them- I will use them when I fuse fabrics because I am always messing up my iron and ironing board (3 sheets for $1), some faux silk embroidery ribbon (3 pkgs for $1), and some furry textured trim that looked like it would be fun to play with. Then we went over to the Antique and Vintage Textiles<\/a> store. There is so much to look at! My pictures are pretty bad but…<\/p>\n

drawers and bins and boxes of buttons-<\/p>\n

\"biutton<\/p>\n

fabric sorted by era- back to the 1800 and forward to about ’70s-<\/p>\n

\"fabric<\/p>\n

This shows the fabic that is on open shelving- mostly large panels like drapery panels. There are also bins full of yardage and smaller pieces for each era. There is loads of more stuff there, all very interesting, but I was distracted by shopping and didn’t do a good job with photo documentation.<\/p>\n

This is most of what I came home with-<\/p>\n

I bought a bag of scraps ($3) because it had some nice old cotton rickrack in it that I wanted- this is the rest of the stuff-<\/p>\n

\"grab<\/p>\n

the rickrack that was in the bag was a little unfinished project. The blue rickrack was also in the bag. The other white and the lilac I found seperately. It is all nice cotton stuff-<\/p>\n

\"rickrack\"<\/p>\n

tapes- cotton, rayon and silk-<\/p>\n

\"tapes\"<\/p>\n

and I got sucked into examining all the amazing buttons. These are the ones that came home with me-<\/p>\n

\"buttons\"<\/p>\n

see the little 3 hole buttons! The loose ones in the middle were all together in a bag of misc. white shell (mostly) buttons. There are lots of tiny buttons just right for doll clothes, or grandma earrings.<\/p>\n

And this was the item that I just needed to have, even though I will probably never use it. I just thought it was so pretty-<\/p>\n

\"lace<\/p>\n

This is one of 7 pieces, all totally off scale for dolls… but what can you do… I will but it in with my other lace and everytime I sort through, I will find it again and it will make me happy. What more could I ask for?<\/p>\n

It was a great day and Susan came home with me. I will post about that next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Sunday, I drove out to Sturbridge to meet up with doll club friends and Susan Fosnot for a fun day of shopping for doll stuff. We did this same expedition last year when Susan was in town. Someday we … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}