Vintage church pieces, along with antique silk and velvet ribbon.

All at the Rag Rescue website tomorrow

Rag Rescue lists more vintage fabric and embroideries tomorrow

Why not have a look at the Rag Rescue website you are welcome to browse.

Luxurious antique black lace and sumptuous vintage fabrics

Wonderful antique black lace and a most unusual rare beaded collar with inserted cream lace.

Just to die for.

The top right fabric is antique silk and the lower left is vintage fabric.

Don't miss out on these superb items, they will be listed tomorrow morning at 7am BST

Beautiful vintage fabric at Rag Rescue tomorrow

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Roses all the way at Rag Rescue

All at the Rag Rescue website tomorrow

More vintage textiles at Rag Rescue tomorrow

Vintage fabric and beautiful vintage bead work tomorrow at Rag Rescue

Vintage French fabrics and wooden reels of sewing cottons at Rag Rescue

Beautiful vintage French red toile fabric, floral French fabric and packs of three vintage wooden reels of sewing cottons. All these will be added to the Rag Rescue website tomorrow.

More hexagonal vintage fabric patches and Victorian quilted pieces.

All at Rag Rescue tomorrow

Pretty vintage English and French fabrics andribbons at Rag Rescue tomorrow

All at the Rag Rescue website tomorrow

Vintage hexagonal patches and vintage sewing pouches.

It's a long time since I listed vintage hexagonal patches, so there are four more being listed tomorrow and more to come in the following weeks. I'm also listing two lovely vintage handmade sewing pouches. One is for threads and the other for your small scissors, thimbles and other paraphernalia.

My apologies today for not answering order emails straight away or getting shipping costs to you. I had a wisdom tooth out today and was rather shaky afterwards but will be back tomorrow as good as new and back to work with vigour.



Vintage French fabric and large mother of pearl buttons.

At the Rag Rescue website tomorrow

French antique silk fabrics and sewing cottons

Lovely French silks tomorrow at the Rag Rescue website

A variety of vintage fabrics at Rag Rescue tomorrow.

Pretty pink rosy fabrics and embroideries, Art Nouveau designed fabric with gold metallic threads, French toile and lovely braid.

All will be listed at the Rag Rescue website tomorrow

More vintage fabric scrapbags coming up tomorrow at the Rag Rescue website

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Vintage Easter at Rag Rescue

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Three lovely old Easter cards with special verses not often seen these days.

There is also a lovely vintage egg cosy featuring flowers with little faces. I know that one of my customers was after these cosies a while ago but I have lost her email so perhaps she will see this blog post.

Talking of egg cosies I had a lovely email from a customer today who sent me this wonderful picture of two egg cosies she has made using felt and scraps of vintage fabric. Alix uses very tiny pieces in her work and I am sure you will agree with me that she must have a lot of patience to sew these small pieces on to her work. 

Aren't they just divine?

Alix also sent me some more photo's of her work but they deserve a post all of their own.

Blog posts and Rag Rescue links from kind trade and customers.

Elaine's blog

This is a great blog to link to. Elaine has many followers and even more on eBay where she does the majority of her selling. Why not go over there by clicking on the link above and see for yourself.

I've been buying and chatting and chatting and buying from Elaine for many years now and if you have been following my blog you will know that I've been selling some wonderful 1950s smocking pieces lately. I bought these from Elaine and she has written a very kind post about how I used a couple of these smocking pieces in my felt work.

Thank you Elaine and thank you for the link.

On the same day as Elaine's post, I got an email from a lovely customer called Diane. She too had written a post which included a mention of Rag Rescue as she had used some fabric trimmings she bought from me and included in a collage she made. The collage is great and thanks for the write up Diane. 

The post can be see on the Pantry violets blog ' Memories of Summer post.

This is a great blog.

"Pantry Violets" are women who met by chance in the Dordogne in France on a craft workshop. The women came from a variety of countries and so have lots of interesting posts to write especially on their ideas and creations.

I have already had some large orders from the friends Diane made. 

Thank you so much Diane.

Diane also has her own  blog called

Tinkering by the sea

Another must read.

Vintage fabric

At the Rag Rescue website tomorrow.

More vintage fabric scrapbags at Rag Rescue tomorrow

Rag Rescue website

A variety of embellishments at Rag Rescue tomorrow

Vintage beaded embellishments a vintage velvet rose and a dressmaking book by Betty Foster.

All at Rag Rescue tomorrow.

More vintage fabric squares for you to work with.

At the Rag Rescue website tomorrow morning.

Pretty vintage fabric scrapbags tomorrow at Rag Rescue

See them at the Rag Rescue website Sunday 13th march

Vintage fabric at Rag rescue

Rag Rescue website tomorrow

One way of using old smocking pieces, vintage fabric and silks

I wanted to see if I could use the 1950's smocking pieces in a different way.

Having found an old folk tale about how a rainbow was made, which included two birds I set about making them using the smocking fabric.

Here are some more close-up photo's from the completed work.

You can read the story on my 'Feltissimo' blog

1950's smocking pieces

Tomorrow on the Rag Rescue website

See the next post on how I have used some smocking pieces in my felt work.

Vintage fabric squares tomorrow

All at the Rag Rescue website at 7am tomorrow

Vintage fabric scrappy parcels at Rag Rescue

I just can't keep up with the demand for these scrappy parcels, they are just so popular.

Each parcel has 20 pieces of wonderful vintage fabrics. I don't use these sizes so it is great to see that they are being recycled and re-used.

These four will be listed tomorrow on the Rag Rescue website

Four pieces of French vintage fabric tomorrow

at Rag Rescue website

How do you use vintage fabric squares and strip rolls?

More vintage squares and strip rolls tomorrow at the Rag Rescue website

I have sold thousands of vintage fabric squares at Rag Rescue and many strip rolls. Send in your suggestions on how to use them. Photographs could be a great help. I'll post your ideas on this blog.

Send your suggestions and photo's to 

sandie-k(at)tiscali(dot)co(dot)uk

or post a comment here on this blog.

The start of a new listing week at Rag Rescue

Lovely vintage French fabric

Rag Rescue website

A selection of vintage fabrics at Rag Rescue

Vintage French toile and other fabrics at Rag Rescue tomorrow.

Rag Rescue website

Vintage French vintage fabric tomorrow

Wonderful French vintage fabric will be added to the website tomorrow.

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Lovely vintage fabrics tomorrow at Rag Rescue

At the Rag Rescue website

1950's smocking pieces

All at Rag Rescue website tomorrow.