Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Pillow Talk and Thrifty finds...

Don't you just love when you come across that "oh so perfect" vintage piece that just needs to live at your home? Well such as the case here with my lovely vintage finds. Not sure where they're going to live in my humble abode once summer is over but they're here now...so scoot over Mark and make room for the girls...

Above, vintage red quilt blocks made into pillows
sitting on a 1940's Wilendur table cloth,
(also pictured below)
pattern name; "Princess Rose"
 Sunbonnet Sue (c.1930) 
quilt blocks made into pillows.
Background pillows, Pottery Barn.
(antique quilt from my collection)


Sunbonnet Sue in her green frock


Sunbonnet Sue in her yellow frock


Sunbonnet Sue in her red dress


and the cutest girls on the block sitting on two Tiffany green
Wilendur tablecloths cut and made into pillow cases
pattern name; "Dogwood"


PS... the above photos are a hint to this and this
Eastlake DYI project 
...any clues yet as to what we did with that old bed?



43 comments:

  1. Oh my goodness, I want those Sunbonnet Sue pillows - they are wonderful!! Trying to imagine what the original quilt looked like. What a find!

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  2. TexasMom, I thought the same thing when I saw the pillows. What fun the original must have been...

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  3. Terry, thanks for stopping by - I have just looked at your profile - we have so much in common!! Fabrics, antiques and would you believe I turned 53 in February.
    I'm joining your followers!!
    Suzyq

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  4. Ohhh lovely!!! very pretty!
    Have a wonderful day,
    eljardindemiduende
    ^^

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  5. I have collected vintage textiles for many years and these are some of the sweetest Sunbonnet Sues I've ever seen! What fun to find these treasures!!!

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  6. Oh my friend, these are wonderful!!! They just make me smile!! I just can't imagine how cool the quilt would have been with those girls!!! They look great with your own pillows and quilts. Great finds Terry!

    By the way, my mom is back at the nursing home and doing better but still not back to her normal self. Hopefully the routine of the home will help her.

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  7. OK Terry where have you been hiding these? I have a apron to match, NO you can't have it on second thought I'll trade it for one of those wonderful pillows.

    Love MIL

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  8. Dear MIL...OK I'm laughing again...trade you one pillow for one apron:)
    You'll see them at the anniversary party:)

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  9. Hi Terri,
    So glad you came by my blog and are now a follower!
    I just love your beautiful vintage pillows, what a find! And were the same age, so we have that in common too!
    I'm adding on as a follower too!
    Cindy

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  10. Gorgeous treasures. I'm so glad you left a comment on my blg - thank you for your lovely words. Now, I can read all of your goings on and follow you too! Hugs, Kathryn.

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  11. Hello My New Friend! Thank you for coming by to visit me today. It's so lovely to meet you, especially since we live in neighboring states. Your blog is lovely and I really enjoyed your sweet pillows. Now that we know each other, come by and visit anytime and I will stop in to see you often too!!

    Love,
    Susan and Bentley
    xxoo

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  12. I love your wonderful new blog, love the red and white pillows and the little girl pillows are just adorable, thanks so much for sharing your pretty things, I am a new follower and I will be back for a visit.,..

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  13. OK if the pillows will be at the anniversary party I'll wear my sunbonnet apron over my pretty long dress.
    Love MIL

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  14. So sweet and charming pillows!

    Thanks for visit me.
    Hugs

    Charo

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  15. Such cute pillows!!!

    I love them! And thank you again, for being such a sweetheart.


    xo,
    Kim

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  16. Oh, I love those red and white pillows! They'd look perfect in my home. ;) Thanks for stopping by 3 Sisters, 365. I am now a follower of your gorgeous blog.

    Holly
    x

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  17. What cute pillows. I have a quilt with the girls on it. Maybe one day they will become pillows, too. Thanks for visiting and following and I will, too.

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  18. Love everything, but especially the Sunbonnet Sue's, a favorite of my mother's.

    Happy VTT!
    Sally

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  19. Your pillows are great, especially the Sunbonnets.

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  20. Beautiful pillows, what a great idea to take quilt blocks and use them in this way- those red ones at the top of your post SO perfect for summer, I can just see them on a pretty white wicker set on the porch. Love them! Happy VTT!

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  21. Terry thank you for your visit and I am so glad I came by to visit your very sweet blog. I have become a follower! Love these pillows...my Mom is a quilter so I have great respect for them.

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  22. Beautiful pillows! Love the tablecloths!

    I have a vintage embroidered bonnet girl quilt...I'm working on a reproduction now. The pattern is available for download on my blog under free patterns.

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  23. You stole my heart with your post today. I love any vintage linens, quilts, old or new. I have two Sunbonnet Sue quilts. I have featured one of them and will show the other later on. I love all your work. So happy to have you visit and become one of my followers. Thank you.

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  24. What gorgeous pillows they all are-even more exciting are all the comments you've received! Will talk soon. Love you, sister-friend, Lori

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  25. These pillows are so cute!!! I have a few blocks that I want to turn into pillows too...I just need to find the time!!! hahahaha Have a great VTT!

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  26. Hello La Bella gal. Thanks for stopping by. I will have a cuppa. Yes we seem to like similar things. Except I am older than dirt but still young at heart and love the blogging world. I have used individual quilt pieces for place mats, gourds and a lot of things. Love that pattern. I will become a follower but my avatar will not show up due to something to do with Google but will follow. Thanks for the invite.
    blessings
    QMM

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  27. Oh my gosh..oh my goodness..just oh ny!!!! Oh my!!!!!!! All I can do is oooo and ahhhhh over your sweet pillows. Sue is my favorite pattern of all time, on anything and everything. Your pillows are wonderful,sweet,adorable and beautiful..and I admired them all so much,I was unablw to choose a favorite. I've become a follower of your sweet blog,.,and I'll be back to visit again. Happy VTT..and have a beautiful weekend..

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  28. I am in love with those sunbonnet pillows! My best friend's great grandmother quilted that pattern for her. If she still has it, I may try to encourage her to give it to me!!! She has two boys... she doesn't need it. Right? I have several old old old quilts that my grandmother and great grandmother quilted. My parents just gave them all to me. I actually threw some away that were so ragged and worn. I hated to do it, but some of them were beyond repair and some were not even completely quilted. I think it would be fabulous to make pillows out of the ones I have! Thanks for the inspiration! Hope you are having a great week!

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  29. Those are all just lovely! :)

    ((Hugs))
    Laura

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  30. What a beautiful way to repurpose an old quilt! Such wonderful pillows! I especially love all the Sunbonnet Sues, but the red and white ones are striking as well.

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  31. I love blog hopping, as I just found you! And we're PNW neighbors! I'm just up north a spell.
    I love vintage, and just love those pillows!
    Have a great weekend!
    Laura

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  32. You have an amazing blog!!! I found you via your comment on Hope Filled Living!! I will visit again and have become a follower. Stop by for a visit if you are up to it www.attitudeIVlife.blogspot.com - HHL

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  33. I love you blog! And hi from another Oregonian:)
    So glad you visited my blog and we found each other. Adore your repurposing of vintage linens as it is one of my passions too. Got a kick out of the squirrel pics, funny how they still figure out how to get the bird seed on one of those "critter proof feeders" LOL. But it is so fun to watch their antics.

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  34. So very pretty!!
    I love those pillows,
    huges
    eljardindemiduende
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  35. Oh how I wish those pillows were transforming my bed! They are wonderful.

    Best,
    Bonnie

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  36. Great way to use quilt blocks. The red stars are my favourite.

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  37. Hi
    Thank you for joining my blog as a follower. I just joined your blog. WOW I love finding new blogs with the same interests that I have. I will be adding you to my blog list so I can pop over every day
    Betty

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  38. Love vintage textiles, are you a quilter also Terry? Yup I want to see what you are up to!

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  39. Oh my, The sunbonnet pillows are so adorable and I love the red stars!

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  40. All of the pieces you're showing are great, but those Sunbonnet Sue pillows steal the show.

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  41. Tears in my eyes here. My mother loved quilting and one of the last projects she did were Sunbonnet Sue pillows for each of her nieces and me too. I have a small unfinished quilt of hers with them also which I should get out and finish.
    I too am a new blogger (3 posts). Don't know if I'm a late bloomer or just a flower that lies dormant for periods of time but this is my first time at blogging publicly and I'm liking it.
    Stop by 'at Muldoon' anytime.

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