Including this vintage Sanders tin, Sanders being a local chocolate shop since 1875..
Showing posts with label vintage quilt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage quilt. Show all posts
Saturday, December 27, 2014
A Pummychug Christmas
Clawson was originally called Pummychug. Its historical museum is in a 1920 home. The house has enjoyed a long and varied history, including being used as a speak-easy and as a morgue! Now it is outfitted with items from the 1920s and 1930s. It was decorated for Christmas.
This Christmas tree is made of feathers.
All the cats in the house were manikins, like the figures displaying vintage clothing.
An old radio that ran on a battery, and a pipe stand.
The phone works for incoming calls. As there is no dial...or telephone operator...outgoing calls are problematic.
A little oven for a little kitchen.
The ice chest.
The Hoosier cabinet was stocked with vintage tins.
The doll quilt is made of embroidered wool pieces made from men's suiting samples.
I love the fox spool holder!
In the late 1970swe lived near the empty Stetson hat factory in Philadelphia.
The medicine cabinet was filled with patent medicines....mostly alcohol and laudanum and other things now outlawed.
Sweet handkerchiefs!
A banjo was on the bed in the summer sleeping room.
Water pipes made of wood are still being found in Detroit. Hopefully ours have all been upgraded in the last century...
The Button Family has button faces on this little bag.
Please Go Away and Let Me Sleep! says this owl printed souvenir pillow from Petosky, MI
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Flea Market Finds, Week Two
I returned to the Royal Oak, MI flea market. I was able to get the two quilts I really went back for. When I made an offer, the seller said no, he had a lady coming back for the quilts. I said, that lady is me! Instead of three quilts I bought two.
The first quilt was surely not going to sell easily, because its bright yellow fabric was a turn-off to many. Last week I heard people deriding the yellow in the quilt. But it is in great condition, no fading, likely never washed. At 100"by 79" it was the largest of the quilts there.
The piecing is quite good, but the hand quilting is the large stitches with coarse thread seen in the other quilts. The quilter left long tails of the thread uncut.
The yellow calico in the stars is different from the yellow border fabric. The quilt maker bought all new fabric for this quilt, with only the five fabrics used in the top. It is backed by a coarse muslin.
The other quilt I wanted was a simple whole cloth quilt in a red calico, with two side borders in a charming bells on ribbon print.
After I got this home and looked at what repairs it needed, I found it had a surprise. The batting was an older quilt! I could see the bound edge through a gap where the quilt binding was undone.An older red and white print could be seen.
I held this quilt up to a window to reveal that an appliqued quilt was indeed sandwiched in between the layers.
I knew that in hard times, old quilts, along with blankets and old clothes, were used for batting. It was a surprise to find I had just purchased just such a quilt.
The quilt maker used whatever she could afford. The first quilt shown would have been prized because she bought all new fabric to make a special quilt. But I prize this second quilt, because it speaks of her need: the need for warmth, the need to make do, the need for economy, and the need for beauty.
The first quilt was surely not going to sell easily, because its bright yellow fabric was a turn-off to many. Last week I heard people deriding the yellow in the quilt. But it is in great condition, no fading, likely never washed. At 100"by 79" it was the largest of the quilts there.
The piecing is quite good, but the hand quilting is the large stitches with coarse thread seen in the other quilts. The quilter left long tails of the thread uncut.
The yellow calico in the stars is different from the yellow border fabric. The quilt maker bought all new fabric for this quilt, with only the five fabrics used in the top. It is backed by a coarse muslin.
The other quilt I wanted was a simple whole cloth quilt in a red calico, with two side borders in a charming bells on ribbon print.
After I got this home and looked at what repairs it needed, I found it had a surprise. The batting was an older quilt! I could see the bound edge through a gap where the quilt binding was undone.An older red and white print could be seen.
I held this quilt up to a window to reveal that an appliqued quilt was indeed sandwiched in between the layers.
I knew that in hard times, old quilts, along with blankets and old clothes, were used for batting. It was a surprise to find I had just purchased just such a quilt.
The quilt maker used whatever she could afford. The first quilt shown would have been prized because she bought all new fabric to make a special quilt. But I prize this second quilt, because it speaks of her need: the need for warmth, the need to make do, the need for economy, and the need for beauty.
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