A Quick and Practical Gift
Each year at our December meeting, the ladies in my quilt group bring little handmade treats for each other, things like credit card holders, key fobs, bowl cozies, handmade soap, etc. So I… Continue reading
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The Endeavourers’ Reveal Day: Vintage
It’s time for the reveal of the quarterly challenge of the online art quilt group, The Endeavourers. This time the theme was “Vintage”. I love using vintage textiles, and I have already done… Continue reading
Family Quilt Mystery Solved
Back in 2017, my mother-in-law downsized, and passed four quilts on to me. Since they were in an old family trunk from Ohio, I justifiably assumed that they had come from family in… Continue reading
ScrapHappy May 2024 — A Vintage Top is Finally Quilted
It has been seven years since I bought this scrappy vintage top, and I finally got it hand-quilted. I estimate it took me at least 60 hours, and I did very minimal quilting,… Continue reading
Pattern Books from the 1970s and 1980s
We have reached the end of the great collection of pattern books that I picked up in an online auction. Handwritten notes clipped into these books show that the original owners, Minnie and… Continue reading
Pattern Books from the 1950s
As the year comes to a close, it seems like a good time to dip back in to the pattern book collection I got at an auction in the spring. The 1950s brought… Continue reading
ScrapHappy November 2023 — Scraps from Many Lives
Back in 2012, I sketched a plan for a way to use all the vintage handkerchiefs I had gathered up over the years, and this year I finally got around to making it.… Continue reading
Recipes from Old Cookbooks
Updated to include the recipe for frozen pudding from the 1908 cookbook, especially for Kate Chiconi. 🙂 Mixed in with the needlework books that I got in my awesome auction haul, were some… Continue reading
1940s Pattern Books from the Home Front
It’s been a while since I dipped into the treasure trove of pattern books I got in an auction. As I wrote a few posts back, during the 1940s, the original pattern collectors,… Continue reading
Decorator Dreams from the 1940s
As I wrote last month, I am cataloging a box full of vintage needlework books and patterns that I bought at an auction. To review the history of this crafty family, in 1917,… Continue reading