Of course, it's easier to buy cloth than to make anything...

Stopped in the Hermitage Goodwill again this morning, ended up buying the pieces below (and leaving lots of nice-but-not-me cloth behind.)

The top piece is a laminated Tula Pink print, 40" of it, but with a few inches cut off of the entirety of one edge; it's sill a solid ¾ yard in area.  I looked it up when I got home--the 99¢ I paid for it is  a...um...very good deal.

Next is a rare purchase for me--a solid that isn't black.  It's 37" selvedge to selvedge, so it may be vintage, and there's 1 yard 7" of it.  It is, I'm pretty sure, cotton pretending to be linen.  I may have felt some pity for it, since it was color of the week (so marked down from 99¢ to 49¢) AND it had remained unpurchased on Half-Off Saturday.  (Poor thing, I didn't even buy it on Saturday...oh...wait...)  I  think it coordinates fairly well with the laminated print, both in terms of color and texture contrasts.  Not sure what I'll do with them, but that doesn't (usually) stop a purchase...

Finally is a lightweight crêpe, 54" wide by 3 yards.  It involves at least some wool, I think, from the way it feels.  I won't know for sure unless I do a burn test (smells like burning hair) or start working with it (makes my arm itch inside.  Whee.)  It's a nice, slightly cool black.  Three yards of 60" possibly wool crêpe for for $2.99 is irresistible enough, right?  Then add that this tag was still on it:

...and I'd say we're looking at a piece of vintage yard goods as well...  Wikipedia says the last Stewart store closed in 1992, and I know tags like this tended to have been printed in huge quantities and used until they were gone, but I doubt the Stewart stores were still selling cloth very far into the 1980s, if even that long.  Plus, $2/yard for wool(ish) crêpe?  My guess is that it's been a while since it was that price... (I'll contain my gushing over the joy I get from vintage utilitarian graphic design like this.  Futura, ooh.)  I guess I'll attempt a hot-towel-clothes-dryer pre-shrink on this cloth, too.  Always a new adventure...

What do you think of these pieces of cloth?  Am I silly to keep buying completely random stuff at thrift stores?  Do you wish I'd JUST SEW SOMETHING ALREADY?  *grin*