rose hip : ditsy florals...

September 25, 2013

ditsy florals...

...how I love you! I know, here you are hoping for a giveaway as I promised in my last post, but all I'm giving you are ditsy florals! Sorry for being such a tease, but I can't help myself showing you some of my latest pillowcases made with these delicious tiny scale floral prints because they are making me smile...

Without a doubt, I'm so drawn to ditsy florals for very nostalgic reasons; they are my "comfort fabric" and bring me back memories of growing up in the 70's. We had one of those old Singer sewing machines (you know, with the big foot plate of cast iron which you have to rock back and forth to power the machine...) sitting very idly in the kitchen of our family's summer cottage; my grandmother had bought an electric machine and had no more room for this old one, so she passed it on to my mother. However, it just sat there since my mother was never really interested in sewing, having a mother who already did it so beautifully. (Have you not noticed that that often happens in families causing sewing skills to skip a generation?!) I, unlike my mother, was completely mesmerized by the old thing and begged my mother to show me how to use it; she showed me the basics (which she did know given that her mother was such an accomplished seamstress) and I remember so clearly thinking that sewing on that old machine was the best thing ever! Shortly after, I sewed my very first "real thing" with a "real pattern" on the old Singer: a wrap-around skirt in, of course, a red ditsy floral fabric... Oh, how I wish I still had this skirt!

Thanks for indulging me this walk down memory lane and I promise (cross my heart!...) that my next post (in 2 to 3 days) will be all about a very special giveaway draw. Please come and check it out because it just might put a smile on your face! In case you're also wondering, I will start filling my Etsy shop with some of the new pillowcases you see here by next week. 'So glad you popped by!...

Comments

OMGoodness! It's like you were walking through my memories! One of my first sewing projects(in the 70's) was a wrap around skirt!AND the same with my grandmother being the seamstress and my mom...not so much. lol Except for the singer being a newer electric one (wish I had one of those treadle sewing machines!)Love the pillow cases :)

Posted by: Angela-Southern U.S.A. | September 25, 2013 at 02:06 PM

You seen to have inherited your Grans sewinng skills.i loved hearing the story of how you first started sewing.loving the ditsy fabrics,you use in your pillow cases.I am a 70,s kid so takes me back to my childhood x

Posted by: joy abbott | September 25, 2013 at 02:15 PM

I had a mother, who I believe, was obsessed with calico. Blues and reds, yellows and browns, pink and greens...whatever she could get her hands on. I am feeling kinda nostalgic now too...xoxo

Posted by: leanne | September 25, 2013 at 02:19 PM

I was lucky enough to be taught by my clever mum to knit, crochet and sew! You can keep those ditsy florals coming, they are a true delight xox find memories of the 70's x Penny

Posted by: penny | September 25, 2013 at 02:28 PM