❤happy valentine's day❤

 

Happy Valentine's Day!

May your day be filled with love and sweetness dear friends!

It will be a busy day for me, but at least it will be filled with lots of sweet fabrics and stitchings. ;) 

Thank you for all your lovely comments on my newest treasures! I just added the last two of the pretty rose tea towels to the shoppe. And, I was able to finish my quilt top for Donna's quilt sampler, so I will be back on Monday to show you! 

Sending you Valentine hugs,and wishing you a most lovely day and a beautiful weekend!♥

"Dear Friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God....We love because he first loved us." 1John 4: 7,19

                                   

quilty sweetness

Hello Sweet Friends!

I was so excited to make my first quilt block for Donna's quilt sampler quilt along over at her beautiful blog, Donna's Lavender Nest! It felt good to do some patchwork and sewing again! I decided for all the blocks that I am going to use the pretty prints from Sidewalks that I recently received from Donna's fabric shoppe, which you can find here! There is still time to join in this quilty sweetness! 

And, since I was already sewing away I thought I would work on some 16-patch quilt blocks. I have about 3 more rows to go for this quilt and then it will be time to put these pretty blocks together! 

 
In the November 1950 issue of The Workbasket magazine, there was this quilt pattern, Star of Bethlehem, that I thought was so beautiful and would love to try one day! It looks a little hard and I am thinking probably hand piecing would be the best with these shapes. I just love how it says to cut the pattern pieces out on cardboard. Such a great idea. 

Green, pink, light yellow and white were the most popular colors this quilt was made with, which I think are lovely colors together. I am even think this would be a pretty pillow cover, too! Have you seen this quilt before?

Thank you all so much for your sweet comments on the Little Women book and other sweet treasures! Hope that you are enjoying some lovely weather and crafty goodness!

Wishing you a wonderful day and weekend! 

little women

Happy Sweet Day!

Thank you all so much for your sweet comments on my new treasures and goodies! It has been a little busy for me, and I have been neglecting all my crafty projects, so sorry that is has been a little quiet around here and might be until November as I am working on Christmas items for my shoppe, which I look forward to showing you some sneak peaks soon!

I was able to venture to an estate sale of a 97 year old woman on Saturday, but unfortunately there really wasn't anything that caught my attention or old, but I did walk away with this 1911 edition of Little Women. 

 I love collecting old books and I have to admit that I have actually never read Little Women, but hopefully will be able to now! I am not a huge reader. I seem to always keep my hands too busy.

 I thought this was a neat stamp in the back of the book from The May Company book store. The May Co. was a department store that was based in California starting in 1923. If they could have only stayed around! 

Some more Workbasket magazines from 1948-1950 that I got on eBay and I look forward to sharing some neat things. I really just love the nostalgia of these magazines and reading them makes me feel like I am in that era! Oh, how fun would it be! 

These Christmas card place settings were a gift from my mother-in-law which I was so excited to have! 

 They are so cute and small, and I look forward to having them out for Christmas!

 The snowmen are my favorites, but I guess they are all pretty cute!

And, Christmas is coming very soon to my shoppe! I have been busy getting started on tea towels last week, and there will be many more pretty Christmas goodies!

 I received some sweet mail last week! These lovely goodies I won from the most lovely Fran of Hey, Mom! What's For Dinner? which I was so excited about! 

 Candles, cookie cutters, and a cute Jack-O-Lantern spatula. 

 And, some darling hexies and a beautiful vintage feed sack!! Thank you so much Fran for having such a sweet giveaway!!

 These pretties also arrived in the mail from the sweetest Donna of Donna's Lavender Nest! 

 A darling fat quarter bundle of the newest line by October Afternoon, Sidewalks, which I am absolutely in love with! And sweet Donna has this darling bundle as a Vintage Grey Blogger's Choice which you can find here in her shoppe! Thank you so much Donna!!

Aren't these prints just pure eye candy! I can't wait to make something pretty with them and I can tell you it might be a little hard to cut into them, though! ;) If you haven't had a chance to get some of these prints, make sure you head over to Donna's shoppe, Donna's Lavender Nest to get some for your fabric stash! 

Miss Donna is also going to be having a quilt sampler of 12 sweet blocks where she will be posting one a week with a tutorial, starting this Wednesday, October 16th. So, if you are interested in joining in this quilting fun, pop on over to Donna's blog for more information. I know that I am looking forward to this sewing goodness! 

Well, I am off to work on some things and catch up with all of you! Wishing you all a beautiful and creative week dear friends! 

some recipes and a winner...

Happy Friday!

Thank you all so much for your sweet comments on my 'boo' garland and Halloween decorations!! I've had a busy week working on a couple custom orders, finishing some goodies for the shoppe, and working on a strawberry pincushion swap hosted by my sweet friend Erin of Why Not Sew?, that I look forward to showing you once I get it finished over the weekend! So, my apologies that I haven't been around to much to visit you, but will be catching up over the weekend to see what you sweetness you have been up to! 

I was going to show you some more pages from The Workbasket magazines, but my printer ran out of ink and it won't let me even scan pages until I replace it, so I will have to get some today. But, luckily I had these two recipe pages from the September 1951 issue, and an old recipe for Apple Brown Betty that I shared last year! Hope you enjoy them! 

and, now to the winner of the Simple Sweet Fabric giveaway! 

Congratulations to Laura of Vintage Bettys for winning the $25 gift card to Simply Sweet Fabric! Yay! I will send you an email and get you contacted with Shay! 

Wishing you a lovely and beautiful autumn weekend! 

I will be back on Monday to show you some new goodies and projects! ♥

a simply sweet giveaway

Happy Friday!

Hope that your week has been wonderful and you have some sweet and crafty plans for this weekend! This darling girl "September Miss" is from The Workbasket magazine September 1951 issue. Each issue in 1951 has a monthly character that you could trace to color or embroider. I think she would look adorable embroidered on a pillow for a little girls' room! ;)

Well, I love meeting new bloggy friends, and I am excited to introduce to you the most lovely Shay of Simply Sweet Fabrics and her darling blog, The Little White Farmhouse. 

Her etsy shoppe is filled with such a cute selection of fabrics that are sweetly unique to her pretty style including Japanese and 30's reproductions, which are always on the top of my list! If you haven't had a chance to get your hands on some pretty Briar Rose by Heather Ross, she has a sweet selection! And, make sure you head over to her blog and see her gorgeous pinwheel quilt that she made with the fabrics from her shoppe!

 She so generously sent me these pretties to play with, which I am just loving! 

Some 30's reproduction mixed with the adorable pastel florals!! Love, Love! 

And, of course I have already starting cutting into one of the rose florals for a hexie flower!! 

Shay has been so sweet and generous in offering one of you dear friends a $25 gift card to her etsy shoppe! Yay! Giveaway Closed

If you would like a chance to win, here are two ways you can enter!

♥Leave a comment on this post and make sure you pop over to visit Simply Sweet Fabric

♥Leave a comment letting me know one of the fabrics you would choose if you won

That's it! Make sure to leave a separate comment for each one. You have until Thursday, September 26th to enter. I will be announcing the winner on Friday, September 27th. Best wishes to you all! 

May you all have a wonderful and creative weekend!! 

a new collection and a winner

Happy Monday!

Hope that you had a lovely weekend and are enjoying the last days of summer. I am looking forward to fall and those cooler days! Thank you all so much for the birthday wishes! You made my birthday extra special! 

Over the weekend I finished up another hexie flower, with one of my favorite Flower Sugar prints. Only a few more to go! Well, I have started a new collection of something that I discovered right before my birthday, and have become quite fascinated with these vintage treasures! 

The Workbasket magazines! Have you heard of them? Oh my, have they just made my vintage heart so happy! I discovered them on this blog, that I had stumbled upon and was completely smitten with them. I have never heard of them or seen them at estate sales before, and I have sure been missing out on these little gems. 

And, to my surprise a very dear and sweet friend had sent me the set above for my birthday, knowing how much I would love them, and she was so right! The day I received the ones she sent, I read them all night and over the weekend! 

I ended up ordering some from 1955 and 1954. Almost complete sets, so I need to look for the ones that are missing. I love all the patterns, graphics, ads, and it is so fun just reading through the articles and seeing the names of the sweet ladies who once received this monthly in the mail. They were based out of Kansas City, Missouri and started in the 1930's. You can read a little more about them here. 

My plan is to collect as many from the 40's, 50's and early 60's. My eyes are going to be wide open for these when I am out. They are such amazing little pieces of history!

I thought it would be fun to share them by month and show some neat things inside. So, we'll start with this issue from September 1955. Each issue from 1955 has a colored graphic of the flower of the month, which is Aster for September. I am thinking of copying these and embroidering them and making a patchwork quilt of all the flowers. What do you think? I ran out of time to scan more pages, so I will show some more later in the week. ;)

And, now to the winner of my birthday giveaway! 

Congratulations to Helen of Helen Philipps for winning the pretty embroidered pot holder!! Yay! I will send you an email to get your address! Thank you all so much for the sweet birthday wishes and entering in the giveaway! 

And, if you would still fancy yourself a pretty rolling pin embroidered pot holder, I just added these two to my shoppe! If you would like one to match your kitchen colors, just send me an email and I would love to make one specially for you! ;) 

Wishing you a most lovely and creative week!