Cool Beans! A great find at the thrift store!

[coffeebreak]

I check this store regularly and on wednesdays is 25% off the entire store so I always check it out...mainly for furniture on that day. But today, I checked the craft section and there was this gallon size bag full of zippers! $4.99
I have been making zipper pouches, hoping I could sell some to pay back my fabric addiction, however, none have sold.. nor anything else and I guess I'll just have to stop as I can't keep buying this stuff ....it is sending me to the poor house! Anyway, ... the bag is full of zippers of all colors and I am thinking..probably 75 zippers in there... cool. I buy it and come home and open the bag to put them in the washer and good grief... there was several sandwich baggies in the middle that I didn't see that were each full of about a dozen same color zippers! I keep pulling zippers out of this bag... good grief.. there must be 150 zippers or more! And they are all 11" which is perfect as I can make them shorter if I need them shorter! Then I remembered the 25% off day and the bag of zippers was $3.75 for 150 or more zippers! Nylon ones! So.. safe to say I am stocked with zippers for the distant future! Granted, I wish it had been fabric and I probalby won't be making any more zipper pouches, but I have them for my next project.

I also got a gallon size bag of laces...couldn't tell all, but what I could, I knew I could use. $2.99. Once home... again, more in there than I realized and alot of lace pieces....yard or more and about 12 unopened packages of ric-rac and bias tape! Some other crafty items I have used in the past...and can have if I need them. But the bias tape and ric-rac alone were worth t he $2.99 minus 25%! I had the idea while back to some how incorporate ric rac into a quilt...maybe a piece across a 5" square or something like that. I'll have to think more on that!

Okay, I am calmed down now... everyone...back to your sewing studios!!!

[Hulamoon]

What a cool find, but you know there is more than pouches out there

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[coffeebreak]

What a cool find, but you know there is more than pouches out there

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Wow Hulamoon! I know theres more stuff out there, but would have never thought about using zippers that way! What will they think of next!? Thanks for sharing that!

[lourixe]

Ric-rac is also often used as apliqué for stems like these:
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[Lisapc]

What a find. Congrats on the great deal!

[Miss Sheri]

Lucky, lucky girl. Lorie those pinterest ideas were super cool. I'm glad other people think of fun stuff for me to copy, haha.

[Jean Sewing Machine]

Wow, I am envious of your zipper bonanza. I am surprised the zipper pouches don't sell, I love mine!

[bdmsmith]

I always love a good find---congrats!

[ilive2craft2]

What a find! Have fun!

[pcbatiks]

Now that is a great find! Congrats!