Vintage sewing finds

One of my favorite things to do is scour an antique store. Recently, on a trip to Staunton, Virginia to visit my Aunt Eileen and Aunt Kiki, we spent part of a day checking out some of the local antique malls. At one of them we found two vintage sewing boxes that were about $10 and $15--both filled with all kinds of treasures. When I returned to Franklin I finally dumped out all of their contents on the floor of my office and discovered lots of old lace bindings and hem facing, grosgrain ribbons, rick rack, and old spools of Clark's thread.

I love the lettering on the labels of some of the packages of facing and binding.

I'm not quite sure how I am going to use any of this yet, but I'm excited at possibly incorporating some of these vintage finds in future projects.

Comments

[Heels]

I love this blog!

I was in Hendersonville last week over the 4th--my inlaws just moved to Fairvue Plantation.

I'm jealous of your letterpress. I look forward to reading about it!

You may like and/or know some of my other favorite Nashvegas bloggers:

http://www.nashvillesnb.com/

and

http://dishwasherkalashnikov.blogspot.com/

(I live way on down I-65 from y'all.)

[Kathleen]

Thank you so much for your kind words, and thank you for the links to the other Nashville blogs--excited to check those out.
Best,
Kathleen

[sian]

that sewing box was a really good find. i love the links you post on your blog, i'm always finding great new blogs to look at!

[Heels]

I could swear that I posted two comments on this blog yesterday but they're not here!

Ack!

Can't wait to see your letterpress stuff--I'm a big letterpress fan and look forward to owning one.

[Kathleen]

You did, and so did some other people, and I received them and they were up for awhile, but Typepad was down for most of yesterday and when it came back up the comments I received yesterday were all gone. I'm looking into seeing what Typepad will do about recovery--so sorry about that! I love comments.

[Mousie]

oh dear I do love your place, really really...so my magic bubble is ready full of nice biscuits and tea and if you prefer nice cheese, wine and bread from France...I've got so many things to tell you...
love from Grandma Mousie

[Mousie]

Kathleen, i did lost comments sometimes, and i love reading them as well, so i take a copy of them and put them in a folder, just in case...
grandma mousie

[Kathleen]

Thank you for your kind words and the tip!
Best,
Kathleen

[nicole lecht]

Great blog kathleen! i'll be linking you up to mine!
oh and funny thing, i just posted some old finds on my blog as well! feel free to check it out!
www.freshlyblended.blogspot.com