Vintage Embroidered Hankerchiefs

I'm old enough to remember the beautifully embroidered and crocheted linen 

handkerchief

days before the mass production of paper tissue (Kleenex).

I have a small collection of vintage embroidered/crocheted handkerchiefs...some from my childhood and others that belonged to my Mother-in-law.  

Vintage Embroidered Hankies

Isn't this beautiful!

Look at how tiny these stitches are!

Isn't the red embroidered one unique?

So pretty!

I love, love these beautiful hankies!

The flowered pattern one on the right with the blue edging is different...isn't it?

As pretty as these hankies were, if you had a serious cold, they just didn't do the job.  

My Mother, who was a working woman in the 1950s, wouldn't let us kids stay home from school unless we had a fever.  So, I went to school with some serious head colds.  I remember taking my Dad's large white men's handkerchief to grade school for one particularly bad cold.  I also remember being pretty miserable that day.

I crochet (with yarn) but I don't think I could crochet with thread and hook this tiny.  Just imagine the work involved in crocheting the teeny, tiny stitches in each of these hankies. 

Hope you enjoyed seeing my vintage linens!  

Thanks for visiting me. 

    

Please join me for:

Cindy at My Romantic Home for Show and Tell Friday

Courtney at French Country Cottage for Feathered Nest Friday

Wendy at The Shabby Nest for Frugal Friday
 Donna at Funky Junk Interiors for Saturday Nite Special

Cielo at The House in the Roses for Show of Your Cottage Monday

Happy Vintage Vegetables

Now eat your vegetables!

(Is a tomato a fruit?)

Wouldn't your kids love these?  

Perhaps looking at the "happy vintage vegetables" would help get your kids to eat their vegetables.  

I purchased these vintage looking flour tea towels at Target several years ago.

Miss Tomato

Mr. Pepper

Master Carrot

Don't forget to eat your tomatoes, peppers and carrots.

Thanks for visiting me!  

I have more photos coming tomorrow of our hardscaping/landscaping project!  It's not completely done yet (and rain is coming the next two days which will delay work) but it's looking great.

Garden of Flowers

Yippee...it's Show and Tell Friday again!  Start with a colorful flowered demitasse cup and saucer...

Flowers are blooming everywhere...

Add some of my Mother's vintage costume jewelry in rich shades of oranges and aqua...

Match those colors to my Mother's vintage embroidered dresser scarf...

And you have this stunning Garden of Flowers for my Show n' Tell Friday.  

Can you smell the flowers?

Click on Cindy's My Romantic Home Show and Tell Friday to see other fantastic posts (here).  

My Mother's Embroidery BEFORE

I remember seeing this embroidery piece in my Mother's sewing basket as a young girl.  It has been packed away for years (my Mom passed in 1991) and I recently brought it out but was so upset to see all the marks in it (stains.. can't be.. it was never used..).  Well, I decided to try to clean the vintage linen following instructions from Cindy's "My Romantic Home" blog.  I soaked it in Oxiclean several times and I was happy to find out the marks came out.   It took several soaks but it looks like new now.  Thank you so much Cindy!   Do you have a vintage linen story?