'Vintage Fabric' Category

• Vintage Fabric Gallery – 1930s Greens

  

  As promised, I have scanned a few of my green Depression fabrics. Some of these tend a little more blueish, while others are more yellow, but none of them are very Christmasy looking. Even so, they’re pretty great. Brenda just asked me how many of the prints are feedsacks, so I thought I would add [...]

  December 11th, 2011

• Vintage Fabric Gallery – 1930s Reds

  

  It’s been a long time since I’ve photographed any of my vintage fabric.  In honor of Christmas, here are some little samples (2″ x 2″ sections) of vintage Depression dress fabrics in red.  Tomorrow. . . .green.

  December 10th, 2011

• Making Quilts With Vintage & Antique Fabric

  

  Sometimes I ask myself why I am obsessed with using old fabric in my quilts — like today, for instance. I mean, my local quilt store stocks tons of reproduction fabrics at reasonable prices, while authentic vintage and antique fabrics are often expensive, scarce, dirty and fragile, with the occasional nasty odors and stains. They [...]

  March 12th, 2011

• Vintage Fabric Picture — Streets of Paris

  

  I love this vintage piece which I purchased on Etsy a few months ago. Of course, I planned to make some sort of quilt with it, but when Emily saw it, she thought it would look great on a wall in their apartment. Gordon made the frame and finished it just in time for Christmas. [...]

  December 26th, 2010

• 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 from my [...]

  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 1/2″. My [...]

  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 sheets [...]

  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

• 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 bit of [...]

  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 like, are [...]

  December 26th, 2008