Vintage feathers

Great for adding to hats, fancy dress costumes and craft projects. These are really large.

All at Rag Rescue tomorrow

Vintage fabrics again - I can't resist listing more

You know where these will be listed tomorrow.

AT

The Rag Rescue website

Vintage beaded trims for the festive season at Rag Rescue

After spending long hours yesterday catching up with my book keeping I forgot to write the post on my blog. Sorry about that.

All shown above will be listed this morning at 7am on the RAG RESCUE website

Vintage beaded embellishments starts November

At the Rag Rescue website tomorrow

Vintage lace motifs on the last day of discounted goods

Lovely lace motifs to add to your Christmas cards, labels or presents and wrapping paper.

All at the Rag Rescue website tomorrow.

DON'T FORGET THAT TOMORROW IS THE LAST DAY TO GET YOUR 5% DISCOUNT ON ALL GOODS ON THE WEBSITE

Pretty vintage fabircs at Rag rescue

Rag Rescue website

Vintage fabric and pre1960's sewing cottons

More vintage fabric pieces and vintage fabric squares plus sewing cottons in Christmassy colours from an age when sewing cotton reels were made of wood and and the cotton was so strong.

I went to a garden centre today to take my mother and my daughter out for lunch. We sat overlooking Morecambe Bay with the horses grazing on the salt marshes and the birds dining on the bird feeders outside the windows. After lunch we went around the garden centre to look at the wonderful array of Christmas decorations. I got some wonderful ideas for using my tiny scraps of vintage fabrics to create items to decorate our tree and rooms this Christmas.  I'll show them on this blog as I complete them and hopefully you may get some ideas yourselves from them.

If you have made some creations for Christmas, please send them on to me via email and I'll show them on this blog with links to your blog or website.

SEND TO: sales at ragrescue dot co dot uk in the normal format of course.

Vintage fabric squares and Christmas coloured buttons

All at Rag Rescue tomorrow

Vintage buttons, French toile and more vintage fabrics

Christmas coloured vintage buttons for your Christmas crafts and vintage fabrics being listed tomorrow.

All at the Rag Rescue website tomorrow.

More vintage fabrics from Rag Rescue

Take a look tomorrow to see these lovely vintage fabrics at the Rag Rescue website

Vintage fabric and buttons

At Rag Rescue tomorrow

1950's vintage fabric

Tomorrow you will find the above vintage fabrics in the 'New Listings' category on the

RAG RESCUE WEBSITE

Vintage fabrics, vintage fabric, vintage fabrics

Being listed tomorrow at Rag Rescue website

Can't stop as mum is coming at the weekend for a fortnight and I have to blitz the house, you know what mums are like.....

More being added tomorrow to the website. Don't for get the discount

Vintage fabric scrapbags,vintage fabric squares and antique lace bobbins being added tomorrow.

RAG RESCUE WEBSITE GIVES YOU 5% DISCOUNT ON ALL GOODS UNTIL THE END OF OCTOBER

Rag Rescue aims to ease the news of the Spending review - 5% discount

I am giving a 5% discount on all items on the website until the end of October. Hopefully this will put a smile on some faces after the Spending review which was delivered by the government today.

The discount will be given as a refund via paypal.

So go and treat yourself

at the Rag Rescue website

Christmas coloured vintage fabrics ideal for your crafts

Beautiful patterned red vintage fabrics for all of those Christmas crafts.

Also included in tomorrows listings will be three more vintage fabric scrapbags a lovely vintage box made from cards and another antique wooden lace bobbin.

All to be found at the Rag Rescue website tomorrow.

Vintage fabric squares, vintage fabric scrapbags and a couple of other items.

This week I've been trying to please everyone by placing a variety of items on each day. This does seem to have worked for my customers.

Just to let you know that the vintage French rosy designed fabric that was sold so early this morning has been relisted as available because I do have some more but this is the last. Just thought I'd mention it as a couple of people inquired about it after the news letter went out.

Don't forget that you can see all of the items on the Rag Rescue website tomorrow after 7am.

More great vintage fabric at Rag Rescue tomorrow

All at the Rag Rescue website tomorrow

Three larger pieces of French vintage fabric, one red toile and two super rose designs.

Two Sorrento ware pieces, a stamp box and a rare letter opener.

Three vintage fabric scrapbags.

Great vintage fabrics being listed at Rag Rescue - starting today

All at the Rag Rescue website today Sunday 17th October

Best find of the year - c.1850 baby travelling layette basket

Tomorrow I am going to list the most delightful find I bought at the fair.

It is dated July 1850 on the label which is attached to the leather handle on top of the basket cover.

As you can see this wonderful baby layette basket comes with it's own travelling canvas case, all ready to be popped onto the carriage for their holiday break.

The nanny would have got this basket out of the nursery storage, taken the cover off to reveal this wonderful basket.

The nanny must have thought how lucky the lady of the house was to have such a beautiful baby daughter and how lucky the baby was to be able to go travelling with her parents. All the nanny needed to do now was to pack all of the essential items the baby would need whilst away from home.

A lovely large space for all of baby's clothes.

A lovely tray to place all of those baby lotions, talcs, nappies and pins.

Just look at that lovely lace over pink and decorations of pink ribbon roses.

Now what do you think she might put in the pouches on the lid?

More of those ribbon flowers and rosettes.

All packed.

I think you will agree with me this was a real find.

I have seen the trays before but never the complete travelling layette. 

This basket measures 65cms x 42cms and is 36cms deep a really good size.

I just had to list this as an extra post as it is so special.

being listed tomorrow on 

the RAG RESCUE website

Vintage fabric scrapbags and scrappy parcels at Rag Rescue tomorrow

Well I haven't completed all the washing of the newly obtained fabrics but I thought I'd better make a start on listing some vintage fabrics.

Tomorrow will see some lovely vintage fabric 'scrappy parcels' and some more vintage fabric 'scrapbags' placed on the website.

I have run really low on vintage fabric 'scrapbags' so I have been busy making lots more. I'll probably put a few on each day so that you will have a good variety to choose from.

RAG RESCUE WEBSITE

Vintage fabric scrappy parcels, ideal for those smaller crafting ideas.

When I am cutting out vintage fabric pieces for the scrap bags and squares, I always have some good pieces left over. There is nothing wrong with these pieces but they are too small for the sizes I use. I have therefore decided to sell these as 'scrappy parcels'.

There are twenty pieces of vintage fabric in a scrappy parcel. They are all different shapes and sizes but at least one side is less than four inches.

Ideal for crazy patchwork,cards, journals,trade cards, postcards,memory pieces, buttons, jewellery and any other crafts you can think for using small scraps of fabric.

A jolly good mix of items at Rag Rescue tomorrow

Two old holiday souvenir stamp boxes, 1930's beadwork embellishments, a French needlecase and an Arts and Crafts embroidered motif.

All at the

Rag Rescue website on Thursday 14th October.

VINTAGE FABRIC COMING UP ON FRIDAY

I know lots of you are waiting to see the new fabrics I bought at the fairs. My dining room table is piled up but as I wash everything by hand and dry outside it takes a while, especially at this time of the year.

Wind blow, blow, where are you when I need you most?

A variety of vintage goods and lace making bobbins

All being added tomorrow Wednesday 13th October
at

the Rag Rescue website

Early Laura Ashley vintage fabric , a French wall pocket and a Sorrento olive wood vesta case.

Don't you just adore these early Laura Ashley fabrics. Two of the designs are thought to have been designed by Bernard in the late 1960's and the other two are from the early 1970's.

Coming up tomorrow also are two vintage items - an antique French wall pocket with fashion designs and lovely fabric with baskets of violets and roses. So shabby chic. The second vintage item is a Sorrento vesta case made from olive wood with a lovely painted design of a swallow on the front.

All will be listed tomorrow Tuesday 12th October at 7am, don't miss out.

on the Rag Rescue website

Sandie opens Rag Rescue again whilst her son is playing with tigers in Thailand.

 

  Last Sunday as we set off to the fairs, my son Daniel and Emma set off on their year long , once in a life time, chance to see the world. They flew out to Bangkok on Sunday evening and I got a phone call on Monday morning at the Lincoln fair to say they had arrived safely.

On arriving home this lunchtime I rushed up stairs to see if they had downloaded any photo's onto their travel blog. There were many photo's of Bangkok but the ones that excited me the most were the ones where they were handling the tigers at a tiger temple run by monks.They had been on a day long trip to the 'Bridge on the River Kwai' where they visited the war cemetery. This was of great importance to Emma as her great great uncle had died there. I am so pleased that she found his grave so that she can take her photo's back to his relatives.

I thought I would just let you know that the RAG RESCUE is now open for orders again .

I have bought three banana boxes full of fabrics, trims and vintage goods plus a very special find which you will have to wait and see what that it is.

New listings start tomorrow with postcards as shown on the previous post followed on Monday by vintage lace. Your guess is good as mine as to what I will list for the rest of the week so I'd better get my skates on tomorrow. 

I'll be back tomorrow with pictures of the lace I'm listing on Monday.

Until then......

Mabel Lucie Attwell postcards at Rag Rescue in October

My next listing date will be 10th October, so I thought I'd give you a preview of the postcards I will be listing.

There are five Mabel Lucie Attwell cards from the 1950's and a set of three glorious cupid cards named Faith Hope and Charity plus one of those lovely World War 1 silk embroidered cards from France that the soldiers sent to their sweethearts.

Don't forget, only a few more hours for you to place your orders as the stop on orders goes into place at 9pm this evening. If you don't get your orders placed by that time, I'm afraid you'll have to wait until October 9th when I return from the fairs.

As I'm running behind hand due to loss of internet connection for 18hours from yesterday evening, I'll now sign off until the 9th October.

Have a good week and keep your fingers crossed for me that it doesn't rain.

Last day of new listings for 10 days at Rag Rescue website

These squares have been listed today. Only 30p each

Preparation has now started for the Lincolnshire antiques and home show and Newark antiques fair.

For this reason I have to place a stop on ordering on the website on Thursday evening.

So only two days left to order so that I can get your parcels posted before I go away.

The website will be closed from Thursday evening at 9pm 30th September and re-open again on Saturday evening 9th October.

New items will start to be listed on 10th October at 7am.

What can you make from vintage fabric squares?

Send in your list when you have looked at tomorrow vintage squares on the 

Rag Rescue website

All squared up again at Rag Rescue this week.

Six more lovely vintage fabric squares will be added tomorrow. Ideal for patchwork, using as fabric samples or crafting ideas.

Wonderful vintage fabric scrapbags just waiting for you to be creative.

These lovely vintage fabric scrapbags will be on the website tomorrow

Rag Rescue website

Tomorrow is vintage French red toile fabric day.

Listing on Friday 25th September

at 

Rag Rescue

Sorry if the picture isn't showing clearly. Blogger is playing up this evening and it has taken me half an hour to get this picture up and it is still not clear. I'll try to remedy it in the morning when hopefully they have sorted out their picture listing problem.

Larger pieces of vintage fabric

At Rag Rescue tomorrow

Vintage fabric scrapbags today

At Rag Rescue today

Lovely vintage fabric squares

At Rag Rescue tomorrow.

If orders are placed tomorrow, please excuse me if I don't email you straight away as I am going to Coniston Water on a boat trip with a visit to the Ruskin house for my birthday treat. All order will be posted on Thursday.

Autumnal shades of vintage fabric to brighten up your decor

At Rag Rescue tomorrow

More of those popular vintage fabric scrappy parcels

As there is only one scrappy parcel left for sale on the site, I thought I'd better add some more. They seem so very popular and I'm glad you all like them.

At the Rag Rescue website tomorrow

Beautiful French vintage fabrics

Pretty vintage French floral fabrics and French vintage toile fabric.

Listing at Rag Rescue website tomorrow.

Some of the 'Rupert bear' squares have become a stunning quilt

A few months ago I sold a large quantity of squares which depicted 'Rupert bear'. There was a set of nine squares which told a story about Rupert and a cloud.

One of my very talented customers Helen at the 'Hen House blog' bought a set of these squares and has made the most gorgeous quilt using them as a centre piece.

I just love the way she has picked out the colours within each square and used fabrics to frame them.

The patterns of the fabrics are lovely and show the squares to their best advantage.

Such superb quilting and such patience, it must have taken her ages to set the strips in.

The quilt now hangs proudly at the top of her stairs for all to view.

Well done Helen.

All the photo's are by Helen at 'Hen House' blog . Do pop over to her post about Rupert
HERE
It not only shows her quilt but also the interesting adventure she had discovering Rupert bear.