ham anyone?

Today I had a few minutes to kill before I picked the kid up from preschool so I stopped in at Goodwill. I hadn't been in quite a while and SweetB has been posting about her good luck thrifting for fabric so I had to take a look. When I first got the book Zakka Sewing the thought crossed my mind that the perfect thing to stumble on would be someone's 40-year-old fabric stash. Thrifting for fabric has its obvious drawbacks: you can't predict your results, the fabric quality may not be as high as today's fabrics, and sometimes the musty/thrift smell.

My biggest find today didn't turn out to be the two pieces of vintage fabric that I found (but they are nice, the fabric on the right has rooster and quail vignettes as well)

instead it was the pressing ham that I purchased for $1.99. Wow! It is an oldie but a goodie I think, made in the USA and it even has a nice plaid cover. The pressing ham is used in garment construction for pressing out seams and shaping items during sewing. I also found a really nice cream and sugar set that was made in Japan. So for 10 minutes of shopping I did pretty well.