I Made A Trade!

Hello, all,
I have a wonderful new addition to my antiques.  Today I traded a couple of my samplers, which were just stored in a drawer, for a beautiful pre-civil war dry sink at a store in town.  Lauren, you looked at this, can you believe I managed to get it?  It has the original finish and is mortised and pegged.  I have wanted a dry sink for the longest time, and I am tickled pink!!  Here it is in the dining room...doesn't it look wonderful???  I probably need a little something to sit on the floor to the left of it (as you are looking at the picture).  What do you think would look good there?

I have also finished a sampler from Nicola's Scarlet Letter Year ... M. Quertier 1799.  I splurged on silk for this, which is a rarity for me.

Last weekend, at Talmadge Road Mercantile in Clayton, Ohio ( a fantastic prim antique store)  I purchased two bunches of antique quilt blocks.  They were made by the same lady, a dealer's great grandmother, who was a very accomplished seamstress.  There are about 50 of each pattern, Shoofly and another that I don't know the name of, and will make wonderful full size quilts.  I love the look of quilts made from old blocks, with sashing of repro fabrics they look just like the real thing.  Here are a few of the shoofly block...wonderful indigos..

I love how she sewed together tiny little scraps to make the size she needed.

So different from just going to the quilt store and buying $11 a yard fabric!!

They are all in near perfect condition (all 100 or so of them)

Here is the other pattern.  These would have been the most difficult to piece with the curved seams.
Benji approves!!

It is sad to think of why she never finished the quilt...the hard part was over!  I can't help but wonder why...

Till next time, Oliver sends his greetings  :)      Melinda                        

This didn't show up the first time I tried to publish, so I'm trying again.  Sorry if its a duplicate.