Just home from a road trip to Dundee!
Having read about the antique and collectables place in Abernyte on Highland Monkeys’ blogpost last week I persuaded everyone on the road trip (mum, sister, aunties) to visit there on Friday morning as Penelope had kindly sent me the address! It was wonderful finding the vintage fabric corner – I nearly upended myself trying to reach over a table to get to the bottom shelves! I had hold of some old French linen and a French cotton tablecloth for ages but eventually put them back and bought some vintage linen embroidered napkins which were in better condition.
The tablecloth I nearly bought was red print scenes of French countryside and was so soft I was very tempted, but it was quite badly soiled and worn thin in places and I wondered if it would yield enough good cloth to actually make anything in the end. However, now I am back home so annoyed I didn’t get it !! Typical!
I did get a lovely surprise though as just before we left, my Aunty Audrey who lives in Dundee, gave me a bag of her own vintage table fabrics – some had been given to her as a wedding present over 50 years ago and one set had been a wedding gift to her old employer so they must be around 100 years old! There were also some vintage beads she brought back from South Africa! The fabrics will need cleaning but they are beautiful and I can’t wait to start my ‘vintage patchworkfairy’ line!
Vintage Lace Napkins
Now over to Handmade Harbour for this week’s linky party!
Ooooh so many gorgeous finds! That shop sounds well worth a visit and how exciting to get all those lovely vintage fabrics from your Aunty too, i can’t wait to see what you will make with them! x
I can never get enough of vintage lace! What a lovely stash you have now.
What lovely fabric. My mind is working overtime to try and predict what you might make with them…
What a lovely place to visit. A true Aladdin cave. How wonderful to be given such beautiful lace. Can’t wait to see what you make with them xx
What an exciting trip. Can’t wait to see what you make with your lovely vintage finds.
Beautiful lace, look forward to seeing what you make with your finds. Hope you have a good week.
What a fabulous collection of vintage lace, I can’t wait to see what you’ll make with them.
strange things appear to happen on this site, it doesn’t show my name or anything in the reply boxes – very bizarre, hence the interesting collection of letters that should be my name!
It s weird isn’t it – it’s the same for gertie too but no-one else! It may be the browser you both are using perhaps. I find I am listed as ‘anonymous’ when I post comments on some sites but then it suddenly changes to patchwork fairy!
Lovely finds, it looks a great shop, I’m looking forward to see how you use these.
Jan x
Lovely lace, I like the vintage style
Lovely vintage finds, I’d just find it too hard to use some of those lovely things – always fearing I use it for the ‘wrong’ thing!!