Pin It Weekly #84

Welcome to the weekly opportunity to enjoy a few pins from my favorite Pinterest boards.  Tonight . . . 

upcycled vintage sewing machine tables, 

dress forms, 

and odd shaped vintage cabinets.

Thank goodness I can't afford all these vintage items!  I'd buy every single one!  Yes, I have a crazy need to save things.  

Not like keep them.  Well, that, too.

But no, I mean save them from being lost or destroyed or damaged. I want everyone to love things of aged beauty, to protect them, to use them.  Yes, use them!  They are too beautiful to waste away unloved.  

What do you think?  Do you agree?  Do you have to save stuff, too?

Sunday Quilt Inspiration: vintage sewing

Before I start showing photos for today's quilt inspiration, I have a special photo to share.  My mother-in-law is raising three baby goats in her living room.  Three mother goats have had two kids apiece, but a few of the kids are not strong enough to stand up for nursing, so the in-laws are milking the mothers and bottle feeding the babies.  As the babies get stronger, they go back to the mothers.  I guess raising two sons and helping with four grandsons and 11 great grandchildren may have given her some insights on how to handle this.  Either way, she's been wildly successful with these babies.  Aren't they just too cute?

Okay, so on to our inspiration for the day (or actually, night) which is vintage sewing because I happen to find a few great photos.  

Aren't these beautiful?  I had no idea that Pfaff made sewing machines so early.  I always thought that they were a more recent company.

The center pole on this dressmaker's form can be removed so that everything collapses down into the bottom of the box.  Add the top and you're ready to travel!  Brilliant!

   

Happy Quilting,

Mary