We finally made it to the favorite flea market on Saturday! We had tried the week before, when they were supposed to open for the season, but the whole operation got flooded out. But this past Saturday, it was sunny and 70-ish, so we went a-hunting...
Here's what i left with:
A small leather make-up case, a little smaller than your average train case
A tailor's ham, which will probably go to my sister, since i kept the last one i bought for her...
A sleeve roll (and i've been needing one, but new ones are expensive, and not that easy to find!)
A sewing box, containing mostly unexciting notions, but also a pair of nice Wiss pinking shears
A 1940s craft booklet with instructions and projects for crochet, knitting, tatting, and embroidery - and which turned out to have another knitting pattern stuck inside
Three issues of McCall's magazine from 1940
A school songbook with lots of popular songs from about 1915 to the early 1920s
Not a bad morning's haul, really. Would have been grand to stumble onto some great patterns, or some fabulous vintage fabric (say, just enough for that apron i want to do) - but there's always next time. The thrill of the hunt!
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