I’ve been collecting vintage textiles and fabrics for as long as I can remember. As a child, I watched my mother collect antique quilts as well as fabric scraps to use for her handmade doll clothing business. This fascination with vintage textiles that I shared...
Handmakers, your heyday is here. Chalk it up to the recession, the green movement, or just history repeating. Handmade is hot, and more folks are shunning mass production in favor of original and practical art. Case in point: Since the 2005 launch of Etsy.com, the...
There’s no way around it, I simply love buttons. From vintage to modern, outrageous to simple, button collecting is one of my favorite creative pastimes (addictions). Sorting through bins of buttons at a flea market, and discovering the ones that I cannot live...
In the early 1800s, staples such as grain, flour, sugar and animal feed began to be shipped in canvas bags instead of in the boxes that were used previously. To the pioneer woman whose life was a daily challenge, this introduction of a new cloth into the home spurred...
I recently came across some darling vintage stockings and fell in love with one in particular, “ROB.” That is my little brother’s name so I had to have it…a perfect gift!! I thought I would share a few in my collection. I love the shapes and...
