Sorry folks no story here. Although I will tell you this is one of my all time favorite prints that I have discovered. It contains my favorite color combinations; orange, pink, red and strokes of white.
Original: vintage Vera Neumann tablecloth
Discovered: thrift store score
Created: kerchief bib (necksessories)
Isn't this fabric just too cool? I bought this fabric with two people in mind.
My aunt Tina loves fleur d' lis. When I spotted the little red and blue symbols peeking out from a pile of fabric I ran to it and shouted, "TINA!" Then I saw the pattern included unicorns, which EVERYONE in my family detests, including me. However, recently one of my favorite talents and blogger, Melissa Averinos, created unicorn stories - a little collection of sweet and silly stories (via video) that make her happy...and me too. They really are so silly, but very clever and too stinking cute. So with these two people in mind, and not a thought as to how I would use this fabric (I rarely have rhyme or reason as to why I buy what I buy), I tossed the funny find into my pile of fab-fabs.
Original: vintage remnant
Discovered: Estate Sale, Olympia, Washington
Created: booties
This beautiful print is from my personal collection. I have held onto this onetime apron (never used) for almost 10 years. The funny thing, I recently saw this fabric for sale on etsy. I was giddy with excitement and ran to grab my credit card. Well, I got a little side tracked (anyone who knows me is not surprised by this) and when I finally made it back to my computer it was sold. D'oh (said in my best Homer Simpson voice)! I will cherish my little scraps until I am lucky enough to stumble upon it again.
Original: vintage apron
Discovered: private collection
Created: booties
OH, I love this print! Originally these were vintage Vera Neumann napkins.
Yes, orange is my favorite color, but I never realized it until recently. Weird huh? Actually a girlfriend pointed it out to me. Any who, I found these at one of my favorite thrift stores, Value Village, on the East Side, Seattle. I have them for almost ten years, and never knew what I was going to do with them. Well now they have been cut up and repurposed into baby bibs and pocketbooks. Who'd a thunk it!?
Original: vintage Vera Neumann napkin
Discovered: Value Village, Redmond, Washington
Created: Kerchief bib (necksessorie), pocketbook
It's driving me crazy that I can't get the green in this fabric to display the true green it is. In person it's more kelly green than turquoise green. Sorry folks. But, you should know by now that I don't pick ugly fabrics. At least I don't think so. Oh gosh, do I? No, I mustn't or else I wouldn't be selling anything. Right? Please tell me I am right! I am right. Right?
I bought this little remnant at an estate sale in La Jolla, California. I wish I would have bought all of the pieces of this fabric, but for some reason I decided to only take two and leave the rest (about 15) for someone else to score. Hindsight is 20/20.
To think some woman had taken the time to hand cross stitch all these gingham remnants, with a really cute pattern.
Thank you ma'am (said while I gaze up at heaven...it was an estate sale...she's dead...ooh, I hope she went to heaven. Should I look down and thank her just in case?)
I snatched up this itsy bitsy remnant the second I laid eyes on it. When I saw it took me back to my childhood - ahhh, the eighties. For some reason this reminded me of this HORRIBLE outfit that my mother used to wear to work. It consisted of a flouncy white elastic waist skirt, with pockets (did nothing for her figure), a white short sleeve button down (no shape to it), and a pink cotton baggy cardigan. I guess it doesn't sound so bad now, but trust me when I say looking back it was pretty bad. Like everything in the 80's it was in style then (my mom has great style, everyone was a victim back them), but now you realized how horrible it really looked. I hope you aren't reading this mom. Actually I can say that my mom and I have a few good laughs about her "career wear" back then.
Love you mom!
P.S. If I can find a picture I will post it.
Original: Vintage remnant
Discovered: Estate Sale, Pacific Northwest
Created: Booties
Aren't these ducks adorable?! This fabric find was thanks to G-ma and her gift for patience. That woman could thrift and troll for treasure FOREVER. As I have said before, she has a good eye. . .two when she is wearing her glasses.
Orig: Vintage curtains
Discovered: Thrift score by G-ma
Created: Traditional bib
Bold and graphic is not only how I describe this print, but it is also how I describe the fight that ensued over this print. Another score from the Pacific Northwest, and another struggle for what I spotted and grabbed first. I tell you, it gets nasty in the Northwest. Next time I am bringing a helmet.
My story is (and this is the only story that counts, there is no two sides to this tale) that I saw this fabric on a table and picked it up to purchase it. A woman from across the room said that she had been admiring it, and "thought" of buying it. I said to her, "this fabric is super cool, and I am sure my sone will ike whatever I make him from it." She then tried to grab it from me! She said that I stole it form her pile! Now, I amy be many things, but an-estate-sale-stealing-lady I am not! I quickly corrected her, and well it just got ugly. I remember fabric flying, people running for safety, and then it went black. She had slapped me with stack of fat quarters! Okay, she didn't slap me, but we did get into it. Finally, a witness to the whole event corroborated my story, and I was released form the estate sale with my treasure(s) in hand.
Orig: Vintage fabric
Discovered: Estate sale, Olympia, Washington
Created: traditional bib
The gift that keeps on giving. This one time vintage Vera napkin was a gift from a family friend who wanted to support our little start up. Hey, some have investors, we have fabric donors. I don’t care, I’ll take it.
It’s hard work getting out there and thrifting all day. Sometimes I come home all strung out on Starbucks with nothing to show for my time thrifting. I am like a junkie looking for my next “fabric fix.” I get up early on the weekends and troll around town in search of “that one” garage sale or estate sale where I can score. I tell myself, just one, but then one turns into one more, and then another, and then I see that everyone else is doing it.
OH MY GOSH! I am a junkie. The worst part is I am not doing this alone, I am dragging my kid around with me. What kind of mother am I?!
Hi my name is bink, and this is my son boo…and we are fabric junkies.Orig: Vintage Vera Neumann napkin
Discovered: By an awesome family friend at a yard sale
Created: traditional bib
Vera Neumann has never, and will never, let me down. Her talent was endless. The complementing clash of paisley and polka dots, who'd a thunk it? When I wear paisley and polka dots together they never look this regal.
Speaking of regal, this scarf kind of reminds me of something Larry, yes Larry, would wear down to the Regal Beagle.
Orig: Vintage Vera Neumann scarf
Discovered: Private Collection
Created: booties, bandito bib
The honeycomb pattern with its candy colors drew me in as soon as I spotted this vintage Vera scarf on etsy. I wish I could decorate my entire house with the sweet colors that adorn this print, but something tells me the hubby wouldn't like it so much. So for now I will just have to admire these sweet treats (baby booties) until they are gobbled up.
P.S. The pink stripe is a the sole for the booties created from the honeycomb scarf.
So a vintage scarf and an ugly old dress walk into a thrift store. The dress said to the scarf....
I don't know what the dress said to the scarf, but I do know I only liked the dress for the sleeves. And the scarf? Well who doesn't like polka dots. I bought the two. Came home. And voila (vwa-la)! Boho chic for little feet.
Orig: Vintage dress, vintage scarf.
Discovered: Thrift store.
Created: booties
Yes, as in the car. I don't know why but that is what this print reminds
me of. No great story here (sorry folks), just part of a pile of fat
quarters that I picked up at a yard sale.
Now that I think about
it, this floral print reminds me of contact paper that lined the
drawers in the bathroom of my childhood home (trailer). I remember that
bathroom so clearly. I used to think it was "fancy." The mirror was
in a gold gilded frame, the sink and countertop had flecks of "gold"
swirled throughout, the faucet knob was a beautiful crystal "like"
ball, and the (pressed) wood cabinets were adorned with ornate
handles. Who’d a thunk trailers or "mobile homes" as I referred to
them, were so rich in decor. I would love to go back and see what I
think of that bathroom now, something tells me I wouldn't describe it
as “rich” or “fancy”, but that's how I like to remember it.
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