More goodies from my friend Sharon

Without a doubt Sharon has the most wonderful things tucked around in her workshop/studio. I took advantage of a few pieces of fabric and some vintage flower corsages. The piece of fabric above is wonderful! The division you see in the photo is right side of the fabric vs. the wrong side of the fabric. Frankly, I can't tell you which is which. Either side is wonderful! And it is probably an upholstery fabric, soft as can be and I am sure has chinelle in it. The threads off the fabric after it is cut or torn are wonderful!

This piece of fabric is not very big. Just a remnant. But look at the lovely colors and texture!

There was also a piece of this black and tan ticking fabric. It doesn't even need coffee dyeing. It is perfect, as is.

Sharon tells me that these two pieces of black fabric are very old. These are the only pieces I was able to get. It is velvety in the deepest black areas and appears "shaved" in the light areas. Wonderful stuff! Pieces of an old garment.

Next onto these wonderful vintage corsages, lace pieces and tatting. A lot of these are the vintage velvet flowers. But I loved the large, old, soft pink rose. The tatted piece is not very long, but I already have a project in progress that will use some of it.

Thank you, Sharon!! I love ALL my goodies!!

My doll Jane

Here is my latest fabric collage. I have wanted to incorporate this doll dress into a fabric collage for a long time. I actually transferred the tiny picture to the dress and then hand stitched tatting and tiny buttons to the picture over a year ago. It is a picture of a little girl beside a chair with her favorite doll all dressed in white. There is a tiny doll bib that I attached to the dress and made a pocket out of it. From the pocket I draped a tiny pink pearl necklace. Perhaps you can see (it's awfully tiny!) that the little girl in the picture has on a pearl necklace. I used lots of vintage trims and old fabrics. The lacy piece on top of the ticking is an old dresser doily. The coffee dyed it up great.

I am headed to Virginia early on Thursday morning to visit my grandchildren. June 1st is little Ryan's third birthday. The festivities begin next Saturday. What fun!

Also, while I am in Virginia I am going to visit my favorite store, Lucketts General Store, located in Lucketts, Virginia about 7 miles north of Leesburg. It has been a favorite place of mine to visit and shop for years. They are having a spring sale next weekend! Shabby and chic!!

Rose D'Amour Book

The Rose D'Amour Book that was published in the latest issue of Sew Somerset arrived back in my mailbox today. I promised to take picture of it for you and put them on the blog. So here goes:

Rose D'Amour was actually the name of the fabric. It was printed on the salvage edge of the piece of vintage fabric, so that is how I arrived at the name for the book. I cut out the flowers from the fabric.

This was such fun to do! Cutting out the various flowers freeform and then sewing them to the prepped canvas paper page. They make great pockets for tags and cards!

This picture shows a plastic pocket that came from a daily planner that was my DDH's. I cut up a page that would be for business cards. The smaller size was perfect for a small pocket and I really liked that you can see what is in the pocket.

This pocket is made from tulle. It, too, is transparent and you can see the contents of the pocket. Also, this picture shows you the tab details at the left. The tiny bottle is full of lavender.