'Vintage Fabric' Category

• A Wonderful Gift From Ann

  One of my most favorite things in the whole world is a bunch of vintage quilt pieces. I also like old tops, blocks and scraps, but cut out quilt pieces that were never put together are the best ever. So….I was pretty happy when I came home recently and found a surprise package [...]

  June 18th, 2010

• Vintage Fabric Gallery – 1930s Blues

  Thank you for your concern about my stupid injury.  I am moving around a little better now, but still can’t sit or stand for very long.  I did manage to get up and take a few photos today for the vintage fabric gallery.  Although the size of my scraps varies wildly, I decided to take [...]

  March 2nd, 2010

• Vintage Fabric Gallery — 1930s Greens

  Here are some photos of several of my vintage fabric pieces. I have collected thousands of scraps, small pieces and swatches, and I’d like to document some of these patterns before they get sewn into quilts. If you click on the thumbnails, the enlarged photo represents a rectangle about 2 1/2″ x 1 [...]

  February 18th, 2010

• Vintage French/German Fabric

  These beautiful vintage fabrics are from one of my favorite ebay sellers, frjoan, who lives in France.  The fabrics average about 1/4 yard and they come freshly laundered and smell great (such a treat since many vintage fabrics I purchase have that old fabric odor).  Joan also sells lovely vintage European linens — mostly [...]

  July 27th, 2009

• Vintage 30’s Fabric Samples – Pinks

  These are some of the wonderful vintage triangle pieces I purchased on ebay last year. There were three sizes of triangles — this is about a third of the pinks in the medium size (2 1/2″ x 3 1/2″ x 4 1/4″).  These were obviously swatches removed from  salesman sample books, because some of them [...]

  March 20th, 2009

• Portabellopixie Market Bags

  Yesterday I received my new market bag pattern from Sandi Henderson Designs — it’s darling and the photos and instructions in the pattern are well designed and very clear.   There are two bag designs in this pattern — a Straight Market Bag and a Gathered Market Bag — and both are equally cute. Sandi [...]

  February 12th, 2009

• Vintage 30’s Fabric Samples – Greens

  This is one of the best purchases I’ve made on ebay — an old shoebox packed with over 5,000 vintage 1930’s triangles — and it was so cheap. They were obviously samples because I can’t find a duplicate in the thousands of little pieces. Also, a few had some glue residue or a [...]

  January 3rd, 2009

• Vintage Juvenile Hankies

  I have been collecting these little hankies for a couple of years with the thought that I would make a crib quilt. Originally, I wanted them all to have an ABC or alphabet theme, but these proved difficult to find. I have broadened my search to include basically any other designs that I [...]

  December 26th, 2008