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This is the opportunity for all members of here's Textiles/Sewing & Fiber Arts Forum to share some good news with friends.
Did you have a recent auction exceed your wildest dreams? Do you have a wonderful item currently up for auction? Did you make a great thrift store find? Did you snipe a real bargain on ebay?
Don't be shy! This is your chance to boast, crow, flaunt or just plan brag about a recent textile success.
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Hi Tanya,
Nice to see you back!
(Whoops. Guess I forgot to start this one, huh!)
Elaine
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DH and I traveled through Wisconsin & Michigan October 2 through today. We celebrated our 20th anniversary on the 6th. I know those don't exactly sound like exotic locations to celebrate a 20th anniversary but after the year we had last year I wanted something very relaxing! We spent 4 days in Door County (we've been there twice before) because it's a beautiful location but not exactly a ton to do there...pretty much what I was looking for! We stayed at the White Gull Inn in Fish Creek which was wonderful (even better than we remembered it). We ate a lot and did a little antique shopping. I started reading Anna Karenina (which a good friend insisted I should read) and I'm finding it more enjoyable than I expected.
I just cranked up the old computer and spent a few minutes catching up on all the new threads. Excellent!
As I said, I did not find much while we were shopping. A little bit of fabric for resell and some glassware for myself. I may regret a quilt that I passed up. I have never bought an antique quilt to keep...only a few quilt tops that I got at very good prices for resell. But at an antique shop in Michigan I saw the most beautiful quilt. I studied it for quite a while to try and memorize the fabrics and I guessed it was from 1860-1880 and I checked my Trestain's when I got home tonight and I was right. It was an extremely simple pattern (just rows of triangles...I am so quilt illiterate that I don't know what that pattern is called) and the majority were what I think were madder browns. The fabrics were in outstanding condition. I feel pretty confident saying they or the quilt had never been washed. I saw the most minor of stains. It was bound in a double pink and just backed with a solid ivory. It was priced $350.00 and I don't have the slightest idea if that was a good price or not. I admired it for a long time but did not buy it. I'm already starting to regret it but I just don't feel like I have enough knowledge to know if that was a fair price for it.
So we're back home and tomorrow I will get busy with laundry and grocery shopping and everything else that hasn't been done for the past eight days!
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Ahh, good to be back posting about fabrics.
I wanted to give you an update with the Miyake "fabrics" I bought a while back. The $5 surprise auction...lol. I got the package right before DH went in the hospital. Turns out..one box is 2 Issey Miyake handkerchiefs. They are outstanding. From a store in Tokyo called Mitsukoshi. They have the original Miyake Design Studio stickers on them, and also have the Miyake Design Studio logo right on the handkerchiefs themselves. I'll get pictures today. I don't think they are vintage, but going online I can't seem to find any Miyake handkerchiefs at all.
The other box is a mystery. There are tags in Japanese on them, I'll have to decipher. Its a woven fabric with 2 edges hemmed. I dont think its a scarve. I'll have to research it a bit more.
I'll be back to listing today...yeahhh!! So I'll have some pictures of them up soon. I haven't listed in so long, it's going to be strange. Sure was weird too, going into my Ebay & seeing my balance at zero..lol. Haven't seen that in about 5 years.
Tanya, glad your anniversary was nice and relaxing..you sure deserve it girlfriend. And yes, you'll regret not buying the quilt...lol. Sounds like it was pretty.
Thanks all for the lovely cards. They meant so much..a bit of love I needed so desperately at the time. You guys are the BEST!!
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Been researching..the other cloth I have is by designer Shinichiro Arakawa. I guess he's pretty new to the fashion scene. An article I read compared him to Issey Miyake. It appears to be a scarve, but when I unfolded it, I realized it has instructions on how to use it. It shows a wine bottle wrapped in it, a melon and some other things. Hmmm..strange.
I'll have pics tomorrow.
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Maybe it's one of those 'gift wrap' thingies. (Definite terminology, eh?)
You know, sort of a cloth origami recycling thing?
Or is it some sort of carrier for those items?
Elaine
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Tina-
Kailin might know what it is if you could steer her here toward a picture.
I had 3 patterns BIN'ed last night. Not a big amount but I'm still glad for that. Ar least someone found the store!
I'm hoping more will get there for some of the cross stitch patterns and quilt patterns.
~~arkay
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2 more BIN'ed yesterday but now PayPal is having issues and she can't get through to pay me. Shoot.
~~arkay