Sarah London Workshop

Easy easy easy. Ideal for a child's snuggle quilt and sleepovers at grandma's
If you love fresh vintage then that is what this sarahlondon.com workshop is all about.
A wonderful fesh look at the vintage quillo pattern which has been around for years.
A quilt that turns into a pillow. So handy to leave in the car for picnics.

Shall we do the ironing!

Have a book called The Australian Womans Diary 1994 which quotes from different magazines and articles of the 1800 and 1900's.
Love the following that was written by Joan Kyffin Willington called
Maisie: Her life in her letters from 1898 to 1902.

"A Beastly Job
Spent the morning ironing. I ironed the whole of my tussore frock. All the chiffon and whole skirt and bodice and even the three little frills of ribbon round the bottom of the skirt - you can have no idea of the tremendous amount of work in such an undertaking. It is beautifully clean still, so the ironing has made it look as good as new and put such a gloss on it and not a crease anywhere.
Then I did the same thing to my garden party frock and although it did not need so much doing I had to be still more careful because it is such a delicate material.
Then I pressed my blue cloth skirt - a beastly job - then ironed out two blouses that I had cruelly crushed before they were half dirty and finished up with a few ribbons and things like that.
Ironing is tremendously hard work and fearfully tiring.
After lunch I dressed for the mayoress's garden party. I wore my newly altered freshly ironed dear little garden party frock and my grey hat with real roses to match the frock."

What a wonderful insight into ironing. My Australian Womans Diary contains many of these treasures that I will write about more often.

Beautiful Grace Street

Beautiful Grace Street has just arrived. Plenty of "wow's" for this range. Work with three patterns and make a fabulous retro style quilt.

That vase again

Couldn't resist showing you my vase again but this time with beautiful roses. One of our teachers has a beautiful garden and brought me in a huge bunch. The perfume is beautiful and the flowers are beautiful to look at. Thank you Liz.

Chalky

This is Chalky . Isn't he beautiful. Loves everyone. Thinks everyone that comes to the shop is there to visit him.
If you love playing chasings then he will be your best friend.
So if you love dogs you will love my Chalky.

Visiting Cental Coast Quilters

We all love going on bus trips and this bus load of 50 ladies from the Central Coast did smile a lot. Of course the fabric helped.
It was a pleasure to have such a friendly group visit Rags to Riches.
They then went on to visit the vineyards and surrounding area - more shops there as well!! Isn't there an advert that says "spend- spend- spend" I don't think these quilters went home with excess funds.

What about the vase!

I was given these beautiful flowers for the shop last week and had to take a picture. Beautiful. I was told what they are called but have forgotten.
But what about my $2.00 vase. Did the job perfectly.
It was covered in dust when I found it and didn't look like much. Just goes to show what a good clean can do.

Baby Vintage with border

A classic baby quilt can be made easily using vintage panels and so cute for your baby.