20 August 2010

Hip Hip Hooray!

Another vintage souvenir scarf featured in this witty treasury....Fit for a Queen....curated by Claire of Cards and Crafts. Claire is a prolific treasurer, her lists are always intelligent, thoughtful and original, be sure to check them out. I make sure to look at every one she puts up.



A few days at the cabin where nothing worked as I expected. The quilt (remember this one)that I was mending was a lot worse than I thought on the back, I expected to get away with a few patches of the same cotton taken from the old binding, but I will have to patch over quite a few holes together with the lining of an old curtain. This is what I have available at the cabin, so it is in the depression era spirit.



Started to knit my favorite Beehive pattern again, but thought that I might not have enough yarn so I started to add some stripes of a similar weight, remember this. This is the third sweater I have knitted from a cone of Rowan yarn bought at a Yorkshire charity shop for 10p! so I can't complain. I have another cone in a different color as well.



Day after Thursday so it must be Hermes day...part of my collection.

6 comments:

  1. Wow Jan, thank you so much for the really lovely comments there. The Queen would I am sure be proud of you. As someone said on the treasury - I won't if the Queen has heard of Etsy? Maybe we should ask her. Like yourself I have a passion for vintage textiles which is one of the reasons why there is usually a vintage treasure or two in everything T I made.

    Thanks again.

    Claire
    Cards & Craft

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  2. Groovy colors on the first scarf. Great quilt combo for a baby girl.

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  3. I wonder if scarves will ever come back in as popular as they once were years ago. I love them and have quite a few, many from my mother-in-law. I don't wear them or my old ones either but for some reason just can't part with them.
    Thanks so much for coming by my blog today. I know you must miss your grandkids...many miles apart. At least you can correspond often via email and such. Have a great weekend.

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  4. You can't beat a good statement scarf. I wear them as often as I can - they seem to be great conversation openers too. Ooh, find a way to wear those fabulous scarves Cheri!

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  5. My mum was always a square silk scarf lady - picturing her in the late 60s & 70s with a scarf folded in half over her head & under her chin with a sheepskin coat & boots on. These days she wears a scarf knotted round her neck .
    Repairing the quitlt must require so much patience - like restoring a painting. I love watching them do this in museums.

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  6. Wow, you have a lot of irons in the fire right now. :)

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