Category Archives: Sewing

Sewing Relics of Old

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Thrift shop find of last week, from a basket of lot of thread, I extracted these little beauties.

 (be sure to click the image and see up-close)
It’s apparent that I have an empassioned fondness for antique sewing and craft things, and was sorely tempted to take every old wooden spool, but I forced myself to leave some. I had gathered several old brands of “Beldings” ,  “Clarks & Co.” ,  “J.P. Coats” … and  I was hoping anxiously I wouldn’t get gouged at check-out, but fortunately I didn’t have to spend more than a few dollars for this little lot.

Just look at these scrumptious little spools of pure silk button thread !


Inspired to make a few more shots of Old Sewing Relics, here is a 1970’s faux wood (plastic)  sewing box my guy gave to his mother when he was a boy. It now perches on a shelf in my projects loft, and keeps mostly my own supplies, however….


Also still inside this old box,  are some of it’s original relics from from the 60’s.

Pink taffeta seam binding !!!

Leather woven buttons, including leather  shanks….

…but these are what really spark my creative curiosity of late ~~~ fabric covered buttons.

Amish Style Quilting

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I have a love of sewing, and have sewn since I was a kid, but have a deep admiration for quilts, particularly that of Amish quilts. I have a vision of Amish style quilted things all about my home.  I share my home with a fellow who was born in Pennsylvania, and who is third generation descendant from an Amish family (his mother’s maiden name is Yoder), I admit, I started in order to please his tastes, but found they are indeed my own !

Here is an Amish style wedding gift I made for some friends who are from Pennsylvania ~ Home grown & home made strawberry jam, and a set of hand quilted pot holders , mini little Amish quilts (to me symbolic of  a real wedding quilt) ~

I personally like the efficiency of piecing with my mother’s old Ulna sewing machine, the seams which don’t show, and then finishing with hand-quilting.

Until I am able to photograph my bed quilt in progress, and other various and sundry quilted projects about the house,  all there is to date is this little pillow set to cover an antique Nebraska buggy seat.  Not really excited about the green squares, should have used all black, (but nobody got hurt by using the green)… and it makes a nifty little chair to sit on.

Deconstructing A Gentleman’s Tie

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I have never taken a vintage tie apart, and it is like opening a very old book.  A dear friend of mine who has many ties to spare, gave me a few of his old silk ones.  I have plans for them, in two separate projects ~ but unfortunately, first I must gut the old geezers.

Some of the finer points of discovery~ all really old handwork.

I’ve set aside 8 inches of the widest front section of the tie  for another project (upcoming), but from what is left, this is what I’m up to …

… and voila ! Silk hair ribbon !

Such old-fashioned vanity, girls and hair ribbons.

Knitting in the wild!

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Here I am wearing my most recent knitted thing, knit in the wild in the woods where I live.  I love this pattern, and have made two of these so far, knitting up so intricately, yet the pattern seemed somehow easy.  I was really blown away at how it came together. Made with mostly Virtual Yarns Hebridean 2ply , and also Elemental Affects Shetland.  The pattern suggests for a red rooted version, this colorway is called ‘Beet Heid’ as as the neeps are more deep maroon or crimson, as I have made below, from yarns I had on hand . . .

That little pin cushion is the embroidery sampler my grandmother taught me when I was 10 years old, or maybe younger.   I found it in a box recently, of things from my childhood, and decided to actually use it, to hold blocking pins, and not having tossed it in the years of my disregarding youth. 

Anyway , here is the pattern for  Neep Heid Tam.