I put a vintage quilt in my washer and it didn’t die
Posted: March 18, 2015 Filed under: Fun Finds, Laundry, This Old Row House | Tags: vintage patchwork, vintage quilt 6 CommentsI didn’t die, either (though you wouldn’t know it from my prolonged absence from this blog). Thank you, faithful readers, for coming back to look day after day after day!
A few weeks ago I bought a vintage quilt on eBay. A crazy colored quilt. A cheap quilt that no one else wanted. But I think it’s flat out wonderful.
Of COURSE red and orange and teal and black go together. Love at first sight.
Technically this is a comforter, not a quilt, because it’s tied, not quilted. Click here to see more!
Get red wax off a white tablecloth in five simple steps – update!
Posted: December 10, 2014 Filed under: Laundry, Vintage tablecloths | Tags: Christmas, stain removal, vintage tablecloth, vintage tablecloths Comments Off on Get red wax off a white tablecloth in five simple steps – update!Last week I found a wonderful candlestick thing that I HAD to use with a vintage Christmas tablecloth. Don’t they look great together? Especially with matching red candles.
Of course the candles DRIPPED! What was I thinking?!
Fortunately for me, this tablecloth can be rescued. Here’s how to do it:
Click here for the simple solution
Spring cleaning in Easter-egg plaid
Posted: April 25, 2014 Filed under: Craft, Laundry, Sewing Project | Tags: Acme adjustable dress form, beginning sewing, mannequin, plaid, Sewing, spring cleaning, Textile, vintage apron 2 Comments
Apron is modeled by a vintage Acme adjustable dress form, size Junior. I haven’t been that size since I was eleven.
Some of these spring days are a little dreary. April showers, you know? But chores still have to be done.
This vintage (1960s? 1970s?) apron cheers me right up. Cinderella would have loved it.
It’s bluebird-approved! Here’s why.
Iron *this*, Jane-Ray!
Posted: April 23, 2014 Filed under: Craft, Home and Garden, Laundry, Vintage tablecloths | Tags: Quilting, Reliable longboard ironing table, sewing room, Textile, vintage fabric care, vintage tablecloth 4 Comments
NOT my actual iron. If I had a cloth-covered cord, I could plug in this 6-pound, dry-heat GE Wolverine Hi-Speed Calrod iron, mist all my linens with a shaker bottle, roll them up, wait half a day till they’re evenly damp . . . oh, forget it.
Well, Janeray, I can’t compete with the sheer amazing number of vintage tablecloths you’ve got. I started collecting them years later than you did, after all.
And I can’t compete with your brand-spankin’-new super-steamo iron, either.
But the ironing board?
Oh yeah. I got you beat on that one!
When I got married, I had a rickety 1980s ironing board and Bluesray had a super sturdy 1960s ironing board. We kept his and took mine to the thrift shop.
My poor 1960s aqua ironing board, relegated to the basement where the walls aren’t even painted!
His board was aqua!
Twenty-some years later, a couple of the welds on that ancient aqua board finally failed. I couldn’t bear to trash it, though, so it’s down in the basement now, patiently waiting to be repurposed as a display piece for shows.
And then I went out and found the ironing board of my vintage tablecloth dreams: the Reliable Longboard.
Sounds like a surfboard, right? It isn’t!
It’s getting steamy around here
Posted: April 18, 2014 Filed under: Laundry, This Old Row House, Vintage tablecloths | Tags: continuous steam iron, Rowenta iron, vintage, vintage tablecloths 9 CommentsDo you ever get stuck on a project because you can’t do it “right”? No? Well then you’re way more adjusted than I am.
Most of the Christmas tablecloths have gone to storage, but now I’m stuck looking at the mess I’ve made. Ugh.
I’ve had piles and heaps of tablecloths sitting in my dining room for a few weeks now. (Yes, I am the house slob. ManRay never makes messes like this in the house. His tragedies are confined to his garage.)
I sorted through most of my tablecloths before heading to Sage Farm’s show the first week of April. (“Most” because I found another tote stuffed with tablecloths in storage this morning.) And there they sat. And sat. And then…
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