This week, we welcome guest curator Samatha, a fellow vintage fabric collector who co-writes the blog Two Green Chickens. She will be reuniting different colorways of the same vintage designs. This pairing pays homage to Vera Neumann. I don’t think I have ever met a Vera design I didn’t adore. The pink colorway is a [...]
The Daily Swatch features a piece of vintage fabric (almost) every day. Themes change periodically. Please add your own examples of the theme to the True Up and/or Vintage Fabric Flickr pools. This week, we welcome guest curator Samatha, a fellow vintage fabric collector who co-writes the blog Two Green Chickens, who will be reuniting [...]
+ Jenny writes: V is for Very Favorite Vintage Normally, V is for Violet, but I have virtually no purple fabric in my collection.+ So here V is for Very Favorite and Vintage.+While I do not buy much fabric online, I did splurge on this one – a couple yards of vintage toweling fabric with [...]
A big thanks to Jenny from Blempgorf for curating the Daily Swatch this week and for coming up with the great Roy G. Biv theme. (See here if you want to know what “Blempgorf” means!) To close out the week I asked her a few questions about her interest in vintage fabrics … The stash [...]
Jenny writes: One of the major fabric stores in Denver used to have large bins of fabric that you could buy by the pound. Some of the fabric included remnants from the yardage they sold, but sometimes there was just scraps and pieces of older and vintage fabrics, as you might find from a thrift [...]
Today, B is for Blue … Jenny writes: I wish I had more than three-quarters of a yard of this daisy print as I would definitely make a skirt from this.
Today, it’s G for green … Jenny writes: I think this one might be from the 1970s – a parade of pink elephants and their balloons!
Today it’s Y for Yellow … Jenny writes: A map print – I only have a set of small rectangles of this print, found in a $2 bag of scraps at an antique mall. I love the whale. I saw a yard of this fabric at a quilt show for $75 – sparking a new [...]
Today it’s O for Orange … Jenny writes: This is one of those prints that I am hoarding for just the perfect project. The hexagons are about an inch and a half wide. I’m not sure of the era, but it seems like the kind of fabric that one of my grandmas might have had [...]
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