{"id":23261,"date":"2012-06-15T05:53:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T09:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=23261"},"modified":"2012-06-27T00:16:47","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T04:16:47","slug":"my-estate-sale-treasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/15\/my-estate-sale-treasures\/","title":{"rendered":"My Estate Sale Treasures"},"content":{"rendered":"
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33" luncheon cloth in tiny cross stitch<\/p><\/div>\n

Oh, my! This estate sale was more fun than when the circus comes to town.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually, I’m not a fan of circuses, but you know what I mean.\u00c2\u00a0 Being in that house was like stepping into a 1925 time capsule and bringing whatever I wanted back home to 2012! \u00c2\u00a0 And I wanted a lot…..\u00c2\u00a0 But for budgetary limitations, I’d have just bought the farm.<\/p>\n

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The set has 4 matching napkins.<\/p><\/div>\n

Several of my friends wanted in on the fun, so we made it a girlfriend field\u00c2\u00a0 trip.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 We caravaned into the quiet neighborhood, each shopper in her own vehicle, so that we had plenty of cargo space to carry home our booty.<\/p>\n

I had been to the house earlier in the week to help\u00c2\u00a0 evaluate the textiles for my friend who was running the sale.\u00c2\u00a0 I should have left a trail of bread crumbs.<\/p>\n

The old 1920’s neighborhood is a maze of angled roads with dead ends and roads just one block long, like the street where the sale was located.\u00c2\u00a0 But I tried to take a short cut—big mistake— and instead spent nearly 15 minutes and probably a few gallons of gas snaking through the road maze.<\/p>\n

I am surprised that no resident called the sheriff to investigate suspicious activity.\u00c2\u00a0 There we were, 6 giddy women in 6 cars in a congo line driving up one block and then another and then turning around—now that was fun on a narrow street with 6 cars!\u00c2\u00a0 Periodically, I stopped and ran car to car offering apologies and encouragement to keep the faith. Finally we found the sale and got serious about our shopping.<\/p>\n

So here are some of my great finds.<\/p>\n

I love the cross stitch tablecloth and napkins in the photos above.\u00c2\u00a0 The next time a sewing pal visits, I’ll set the table in the potting shed<\/a> with this and we’ll have lunch.\u00c2\u00a0 Won’t that be pretty?\u00c2\u00a0 Note: call first for a reservation or we’ll be eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
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This set is of a genre that I’ve seen frequently at other sales, but about which I know very little.\u00c2\u00a0 It is featured on the cover of a book on antique textiles, but the text makes no mention of the piece, the style, or the unique finish at the hem.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Tablecloths, napkins, antimacassars, armchair covers, and more, are all done in the same rich color palette and always have the same hem finish.<\/p>\n

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antimacassar for chair back and covers for chair arms<\/p><\/div>\n

The hem finish is a sort of triangle, sometimes satin stitched and other times a simple short straight stitch.\u00c2\u00a0 Most often, it is worked over a very narrow selvage\u00c2\u00a0 and is quite secure.\u00c2\u00a0 On shaped edges, like the curves on the chair set above,\u00c2\u00a0 the raw edge is pressed up no more than 1\/4″ and clipped, and finally stitched over the fold. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It doesn’t hold up very well.<\/p>\n

Do you know anything about this kind of cross stitch ?\u00c2\u00a0 A name for the style?\u00c2\u00a0 One site I found called it Arts and Crafts cross stitch and showed nearly identical pieces.\u00c2\u00a0 This site <\/a>also showed the back, which is another match for mine.<\/p>\n

But moving on…..<\/p>\n

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organdy table runner with handmade lace.\u00c2 \u00c2 Oops. I just noticed that I did not gt all the little lace medallions facing up on the pointed end.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The organdy table runner or dresser scarf is spectacular.\u00c2\u00a0 The lace looks like teneriffe<\/a> but I’m not sure. \u00c2\u00a0 But it most certainly is hand made. \u00c2\u00a0 I wish I knew more about teneriffe<\/a> and other antique textiles.\u00c2\u00a0 I need to read up on the subject.<\/em><\/p>\n


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The fabric and lace were both absolutely gold colored.<\/p><\/div>\n

It had been stored in a humid Florida attic for 30 years or more.\u00c2\u00a0 It was so discolored that I wondered if there was any hope that it could be whitened.\u00c2\u00a0 Thinking I had nothing to lose, I filled my old standby 2-quart Pyrex measuring cup with warm water and a hefty slug of Clorox 2.<\/p>\n

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Notice the water is blue from the Clorox 2.<\/p><\/div>\n

Just 3 hours later, it had worked its magic.<\/p>\n

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Notice how yellow the water is just 3 hours later.<\/p><\/div>\n

After soaking for another 24 hours and came much cleaner. It will find a home on the dresser in the guest room.<\/p>\n

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I just love these cross stitched boy\/girl guest towels which look like updated versions of the famous paintings The Pink Lady<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 by Sir Thomas Lawrence and The Blue Boy<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 by Thomas Gainesborough.<\/p>\n

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cross stitched guest towels with hemstitching at both ends<\/p><\/div>\n

Robert and Laurel studied these paintings in our homeschool art class more than a year ago.\u00c2\u00a0 It will be interesting to see if they recognize any similarities.\u00c2\u00a0 The guest towels now hang in the upstairs bathroom which the grandchildren use for overnight stays.<\/p>\n

I had no will power at all when I saw this set of Noritake china.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 At this sale, there were no fewer than 4 complete sets of beautiful, fine china!!!!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 But this one stole my heart.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a service for 8 and has all the pieces shown plus a gravy boat.\u00c2\u00a0 Aren’t they pretty?<\/p>\n

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Noritake service for 8 with serving pieces<\/p><\/div>\n

I also snatched up many of the items shown in the earlier pos<\/a>t about this sale–the WWI Soldier’s Pay Record Book, WWII War Rations book,\u00c2\u00a0 Lipstick linen towel and more.<\/p>\n

So what do you think?\u00c2\u00a0 Didn’t I do well?\u00c2\u00a0 What deee-vine finds have you picked up at estate or yard sales?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh, my! This estate sale was more fun than when the circus comes to town.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually, I’m not a fan of circuses, but you know what I mean.\u00c2\u00a0 Being in that house was like stepping into a 1925 time capsule … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23261"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23261"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23302,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23261\/revisions\/23302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}