Thursday, 24 November 2011

Antique embroidered whitework at Rag rescue tomorrow


Beautiful white work embroidery at the Rag Rescue website tomorrow.

I thought I would show a few of my creations today just in case you aren't following my facebook page.


Vintage lace and vintage fabric plus embellishments sewn onto hand made felt.


A lovely Christmas card made from hand made felt with additions of vintage fabric and lace.


Another Christmas card with vintage fabric, lace, real silk thread, ribbon, and angelina fibres all sewn to hand made felt.

I'll show you more when they are complete.

Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Vintage fabric squares


Tomorrow the above vintage squares will be listed on the Rag Rescue website. There will be lots more to follow in the coming weeks as today I have taken photographs of 55 more vintage fabric squares and 53 pieces of vintage fabric. Now I have the tedious task of measuring all of the fabric pieces and counting all the squares.

Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Vintage fabric for small projects


Have you ever seen a piece of fabric that you love the design but thought that you only need a small piece of it and it is sold in metres? Then look no further. At the Rag Rescue website you will find pieces of vintage fabric for small projects. Tomorrow for example there are two more scrappy parcels being listed which have 20 different pieces of fabric all with different designs plus two small pieces of lovely rosy fabrics. Why buy a large piece of fabric when you only need something small.

Monday, 21 November 2011

Sunday, 20 November 2011

Thursday, 17 November 2011

Superb antique vintage silk fabric tomorrow at the Rag Rescue website.

Exquisite Antique silk fabrics will be listed tomorrow at 7am GMT on the 

My apologies for not showing today's listings on this blog yesterday. It was just one of those days that left me really exhausted and I must admit I totally forgot about it.
Just in case you haven't looked at the website today, here is an image of what was listed.

Lovely vintage squares.

Tuesday, 15 November 2011

Vintage fabric scrapbags tomorrow


I have been asked to add more scrapbags and scrappy parcels to the website. 
Yesterday there were four scrappy parcels added, still three left.
Tomorrow as you can see there will be four more scrapbags listed.

Monday, 14 November 2011

Old sewing and knitting adverts, get creative


Print out these lovely old sewing and knitting adverts onto linen and add them to your quilts,cards,felt designs. They will look great.
All at the Rag rescue website tomorrow.

Sunday, 13 November 2011

Saturday, 12 November 2011

Thursday, 10 November 2011

Vintage scrappy parcels for all those projects you know you must complete before Christmas.


Super vintage fabric scrappy parcels will be added to the website tomorrow.
I just finished making some Christmas cards with vintage fabric on  hand made felt. The vintage fabric I used was taken from pieces that would have been in a scrappy parcel. there are 20 pieces in each of these scrappy parcels, so much you can do with them.

Vintage fabric scrapbags


Vintage fabric scrapbags today at the Rag Rescue website.

Monday, 7 November 2011

Victorian fabric from an old quilt

Four pieces of Victorian fabric from an old quilt. The wonderful fabric on the bottom row, right, I have a lot of, as this was the main quilt. As it is badly damaged I am having to pick out the best pieces that are perfect. If you find you would like some of this fabric but it has been sold  on the website, then please contact me as I will gladly have a look and try to get you a piece.

These patterns are very rare and not to be repeated so when they are gone, they are gone.

All at the website tomorrow

Antique lace making items


These items will be on the website today.

Friday, 4 November 2011

Vintage fabric at Rag Rescue tomorrow

More lovely vintage fabrics tomorrow at the Rag Rescue website


I think I said a few posts back that my mother has come to live with us. It has taken her a few months to adapt to living in a totally different area. I think she has relaxed into our style of life which is very different to the one she left behind. The next stage is for us to adapt to having her live with us. It is mainly me who has to adapt in terms of organising my days in a totally different way. There seems at the moment to be so many doctor and hospital visits planned that I have found myself working into the small wee hours in order to keep the business going and giving my customers the same degree of service that they are used to. All of this has inevitably taken it's toll on me, so things have to change. Of course the business can't suffer and neither can I nor my mother but I've come up with a plan so hopefully the service that you receive will be exactly the same but I will feel much more awake and far less stressed hopefully.

Sandie xx

Sunday, 30 October 2011

Vintage glass and plastic buttons at Rag Rescue tomorrow

A great selection of vintage glass and plastic buttons. Ideal for adding to brooches, fabric pictures, garments etc.

All at Rag Rescue in the morning at 7am GMT

Saturday, 29 October 2011

Feast your eyes on these wonderful pieces of vintage fabric at Rag Rescue tomorrow


So what have I been doing at Rag Rescue today you might ask.
Well apart from wrapping orders, posting them and answering emails, I have -

Cut out ready to photograph

10 scrappy parcels and 40 scrapbags 

That was 200 pieces of scraps for the scrappy parcels 
and
160 pieces of fabric for the scrapbags.

Now I just have to cut 40 pieces of card for the scrapbags and I can
begin photographing all of them. tomorrow.

Me thinks I had better go and get my own ironing done then, as it is piled high.

Don't forget to put the clocks back so that you can have an extra hour in bed, that is if your children or dogs will let you.

Don't forget from tomorrow morning items will be listed at 7am GMT

Thursday, 27 October 2011

Vintage fabric for small projects

Vintage fabric for small projects can be found at the Rag Rescue website tomorrow. No need to buy large pieces of fabric when a small piece will do.

Tuesday, 25 October 2011

Vintage French fabric and Christmas mood board.

Four more lovely pieces of French fabric for your sewing projects. All at the Rag Rescue website tomorrow.


I thought I would create a Christmas mood board today as it gives viewers an idea of what vintage fabrics and embellishments there are on the website that could be used for Christmas crafts.
Enjoy.

Finally I would like to send my sympathy to everyone in Ireland who are living through the terrible floods there.

Monday, 24 October 2011

Fabulous embroidered vintage motifs.


After three days of putting everything back into my lounge after decorating it, I am really pleased to be able to sit at the computer all day pre-listing lovely items for you to have a look at.

Above you can see some wonderful vintage embroidered motifs that would look great embellished onto a jumper, cushion, bag or indeed any of your crafting projects. They will all appear on the 
Rag Rescue website tomorrow morning. Grab them while you can because when they are gone they are gone.

Saturday, 22 October 2011

Tuesday, 18 October 2011

Monday, 17 October 2011

More lovely vintage fabrics


Four more lovely pieces of vintage fabric will be listed tomorrow

As I'm writing this blog post we are having a terrible storm, gusting winds and hail and apparently a thunderstorm is on its way. We've battened down the hatches and switched the heating on, Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Sunday, 16 October 2011