From the sewing chest....

I guess I'll have to take a picture of the sewing chest, so you can see it with your own eyes! But until that happens, here's a treasure trove from said chest!

 

  

  

I need to find myself a project that I can work these beautiful stitches into. The quality of the photos isn't great, and some of the samplers are stained with coffee. To be honest, I can't even tell you if the coffee staines are my doing or granny's! But what a treasure it is, to have some things made by loving hands several decades ago!

My granny was a dress maker and a tailor, and she made beautiful clothes. I have some of her clothes in my closet. Beautiful WWII-era ensembles - two of them in fact - a jacket, and a beatiful coat. I need to find a model or a mannequin to take pictures of them to show you!

A finished object from years past....

is this tabletopper here, that I made for my mom some ten years ago or so.

 

The center

 

The whole wedge

 

Seen from the side

This was a relatively easy pattern, one from Solberg, one of my favorite thread makers from Norway. Unfortunately the topper was dirty, so you'll have to excuse that!

While I was at my mom's place earlier, to deliver her birthday present, the Through the Garden tablecloth, I took the opportunity to take pictures of the stuff she has, that I have made through the years. This tabletopper was one of them. It's made with heavy thread, #4 I think, but I would like to do this one again in thread #10. That would make a more delicate piece I think.

Another item my mom has (well several of the same really) are fine china protectors/ napkins/placemats, that are recycled. My mom had a stack of fine thread squares my great granny made, around the time my mom was pregnant with me, and mom wanted to use them to go with her fine china. But they needed an edging. Since my mom is big on gold, she had found some gold metallic thread somewhere, probably in the '70's or '80's, and made a healf-hearted attempt at it herself. However, she's not a crocheter at heart, she's a knitter. So she packed the stuff up, and years later, she brought the stash to me, asking me to bail her out. I found some edgings and showed her, and she decided upon one. So I set to work.

 

The china savers

 

A closer look. The center's made with something like thread #20 or "30 I guess.

 

A closer look at the edging

 

A stack of ten china savers

Mom still has a load of those squares left, but the metallic thread is long since gone out of market. So she's gonna see if just about the only proper crochet store left up here has some thread that she likes, so I can finish edging great-granny's squares.