I usually end up going at least once a week, sometimes twice if I'm lucky.  Mondays and Saturdays are my usual thrifting days, but I missed Monday this week so I wanted to make sure I had time to go Saturday.  I was feeling a little sick when I got up on Saturday, so we didn't get out of the house as early as I would have liked, and the thrift store was about to close by the time I arrived.  Still, I managed to turn up some good items even in that short amount of time.  

The picture above is kind of an overview of all the small items I found.  It's hard to see thanks to my crummy cell phone picture, but basically there's a ton of vintage rick-rack, lots of lace trim and seam binding, a lot of blanket binding and quilt binding (some vintage, some newer), and a couple packs of bias tape.  Also, there are two size Q crochet hooks and plastic size 12 knitting needles.  In addition to all of that, there are several never-opened packages of vintage snap kits in a couple different styles, and some vintage brass buttons on a card.  That big spool on the upper left is a 50 yd. roll of industrial strength iron-on mending tape, which I was beyond thrilled to find for a thrifty price.  I've already found a fantastic use for it:  repairing the holes in my dog's stuffed lizard toy, which becomes shredded instead of splitting along a seam, making it pretty much impossible to sew shut.

I love the wrapper from this old pack of rick-rack.  I already took the rick-rack out and put it in my storage box, but I had to save this because I thought it was so pretty. ^^

I really have way too much rick-rack, but I can never say no to more when I see it, especially if it's old.  In fact, I can't seem to resist any type of old sewing notions. ^^;

Anyway, I also got several bundles of lovely vintage fabric, including approximately 5 yards of bright, grass green pleather.  I was thrilled about the pleather...usually when I find vinyl or pleather, it's just scrap remnants, and often the colours are not exactly ideal (taupe, anyone?  Yeah, I didn't think so...).  The pleather had its original purchase tag still attached:  1.75$ a yard.  That must have been quite a few years back, because I've never seen pleather that cheap, even on sale.  

Besides the green vinyl, there was a pretty "patchwork" pattern fabric with a border print.  I might make a dress from that if there is enough of it for what I have in mind.  I also got some pin-wale baby blue corduroy, royal blue fleece, green silky-type material, a light green and blue printed polyester, some stretchy blue fabric with abstract lions printed on it (yes, this fabric is a little strange...), and...I think that's it!

But no, I'm still not done. ^_^;

I have to spazz about the really cool old knitting row counter I found!

It's hard to see well in the photo, but it's made by Susan Bates, and it has 10 red pegs that you move around to keep track of your rows, pattern rows, and increases and decreases.  Each kind of thing you count has its own little area on the raised plastic peg board.  This was a lucky find as it still has all of its pegs and came with the original instructions. :)

This thing will definitely come in handy when knitting season rolls around again.  I do have several of the counters that you slide onto your needle, but I hate those because they always either fall off, or the little counter wheels are too loose, and they turn on their own when my knitting is stored in my bag.  I also have one of those Clover brand clicker-counters, which I love (mostly because of the clicking action ^^;), but of course it only counts one thing at a time.