Trip through time

What time is it? time for a trip through an antique store! 
What is it about grandfather clocks? I love them!!
Grab a seat....

 and something fresh to drink

put down that sewing for a minute

let the kids put on their own shoes... after all they need to learn to use buttons

And enjoy a trip through time...
Quilts made by people like us who love to sew fabric, see colors and lines appear, and feel the soft comfort of beauty

 Have you ever wondered where all the quilts you've made will end up? 

 I really liked the fresh look of this old quilt. The color scheme is very modern. The block is slightly different from the one I've done...

With curved piecing instead of straight line. I imagine someone working like my grandmother did, in her lap with paper templates and a pencil line, small stitches, one after the other late into the night. Just one more stitch, just one more block. The mix of neutrals with a few neutral blocks thrown in is fresh.

I liked the setting on this bear's paw. The intermittent sashing. Slight color variance. Hand quilting. The paws float in white, but the white is broken up by the broken line of green too.

I wonder if the maker dithered over choices the way I do?

Looks like she probably took someone's UFO and set it herself with fabric close to the original color.




Shall we drive to the fabric store???
Off to the garage...

I had a heart flutter when I saw all of these!

as a child, I discovered one like these in our old garage. It was rusty but just the right size for my little legs to reach the inside pedals.I felt the thrill of a first car! Shall we take the blue convertible or the firechief's car? Red looks good on everyone! Did you have a car like this?

Well, time to put down our toys...

And go to an estate sale for more fun objects. Objects collected over a life time...

This was the home of a quilter I suspect. She had two or three machines for sale and this cool table...

I thought it was so very clever. Then this weekend I saw an artisan in Annapolis had made a console table covered with yardsticks!! No new ideas under the sun!

I wanted this cabinet, with the birdhouse and the tea servce

I wish I could tour the cellar too...

The home was awesome... built in 1800's with the pretty details one never see's today. I want to imagine growing up here, wearing the button shoes, swinging on a swing on an old old tree...

Granny sitting on the porch with a pan of beans in her lap to shuck for dinner that night.


I suppose the trees would have only been a couple hundred years old at that point

Old trees, old when the first homes were built, older now.
Old but functional barns harken to another time

For a sentimental person who loves history and people and just wants to imagine living in this time it was a trip into imagination... A lovely New England Fall day

Y'all come back now, ya hear?

I hope one day I'll sing the song, Our house is a very very very fine house, with one poodle in the yard, life used to be so hard, now everything is easier 'cause of you....
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