Vintage Haul Part 1

Old textiles, especially those that are sturdy enough to be used for their original purpose, are at the top of my favorite things list. We have a small square dining table that we're keeping for Kat while she's off on her adventures. It happens to be of odd dimensions, so I only have three tablecloths for it (and one of those has a big hole in it now.) This vintage embroidered linen tablecloth is a perfect fit, and came with four matching napkins.

Isn't the embroidery gorgeous? Like stepping back in time.

I'll have to do something special with this cutter quilt piece. The colors are just perfectly mellowed.

This embroidered linen hand towel is definitely vintage and yet was never used.

How can I tell? Still has its label attached.

The seller of my vintage haul sent some delightful extras along with my order, too. That kind of generosity is something I truly appreciate. There's more to see -- stay tuned for Part 2. :)

Comments

nightsmusic said…

Beautiful pieces.

June 3, 2022 at 5:08 AM

Old Loves & Such

My guy kindly bought me my favorite Chinese take out the other night, and my fortune cookie offered up an interesting story starter: This sounds sweet, right? Only the first thing I thought of was an old love coming back from the dead . . . . must be October. In other lovely news, my favorite hand-dyed thread artist, Lorraine from Colour Complements , is moving her business from Etsy to her own web site. Many of my favorite sellers on Etsy are leaving due to the whole "free shipping" coercion debacle, which has also soured me on the site. To show support I did a little shopping at Lorraine's web site and got in these: I love her threads and trims; you simply can't buy anything like them anywhere. Her work makes my specialty thread box look like a treasure chest: At night I'm spending just as hour working on quilting the scrap project runner, and I'm making slow progress: I'll keep quilting the runner while I try to decide on a design for t...

Wild Ride

Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds is an epic, dazzling film that hurls you into the Korean version of the afterlife while showcasing some of the most impressive special effects I've ever seen in any movie. The story begins with the death of firefighter Kim Ja-Hong (Cha Tae-hyun) who jumps out of a burning building with a child in his arms. The kid lives, but he dies at the scene. Two strangers inform him that he has passed away right on schedule, and toss him into a vortex that takes him to the world of the afterlife, where he meets his three guardians: Gang-rim (Ha Jung-woo), Haewonmak (Ju Ji-hoon) and Lee Deok-choon (Kim Hyang-gi). At the gates of the afterlife Ja-Hong learns that he is considered a paragon (an exemplary person who lived a noble and self-sacrificing life) and is eligible to be reincarnated -- but there's a catch. First he has 49 days to make it through seven hells in which he will be judged on his sins. His three guardians will help and defend...

Progress

My guy is back home safe, sound and exhausted. I think he just realized he's over seventy now. :) I didn't finish a sewing project while he was gone, but I did make some progress on the beach bag. I've tacked down all the fabric elements on top of the old backing fabric I quilted. Time to break out the embroidery thread box and have some fun.

Valerean

Search This Blog