This past weekend we went to the Spoon River Drive in northern Illinois to hit the garage sales and flea markets that are in several river towns. Not much leaf color, but still was a nice drive along the river. Being that it was the last weekend and the last day of the event, we cleaned up and got a lot of free items that people didn't want.....like an old treadle sewing machine in the cabinet. Just needs to be worked on and a belt put on and the wood refinished. Still was free! We found lots of free boxes of stuff. So the back of our SUV/car was loaded with goodies to bring home :-D I managed to rescue some nice samples of lace at this one garage sale that had TONS of needleworks of all kinds(mostly crocheted doilies) and kits and other antiques. My wife wanted to buy it all HAHA.....not enough money for that. But what lace I did get was a STEAL! 25 to 50 cents a piece!. They may not be in the best of shape, with tears and undone knots, but I will frame them and use them as part of my display in our booth at the heritage events we do. They are good samples of needle lace and netting and even found a long 4 foot piece of tatted edging that I will put around a hanky. You can got to my blog to view the images: http://www.tat-man.net/blog or just click on these direct links to view them:
Tatted edging for hanky: http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z43/tatmantats/Tatting/classic_tat_edging .jpg This is one of a set of two and a nice sample of pulled thread work and embroidery: http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z43/tatmantats/lace/pulledthread_doily.jp g A good example of a netted doily: http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z43/tatmantats/lace/netteddoily.jpg These last two lace finds are nice samples of needle lace and embroidery and netted lace insertions with a netted lace edging. I believe they are antimacassars. Close up view: http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z43/tatmantats/lace/net_needlelace_2close up.jpg Large view: http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z43/tatmantats/lace/net_needlelace_2.jpg Close up view: http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z43/tatmantats/lace/net_needlelace_1close up.jpg Large view: http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z43/tatmantats/lace/net_needlelace_1.jpg Thanks for letting me share my finds with you :) In sunny and cooling Greenville, IL USA Mark, aka Tatman Www.tat-man.net Www.tat-man.net/blog - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
