The end of an era…but it was good whilst it lasted!

 

                    (The board that my lovely daughter designed for me!)

Way back in the late 1990s, I started to sell cotton, craft fabrics, on eBay. I enjoyed it immensely and continued to do this as a kind of ‘sideline’..and an escape from the day job! ( Teaching!)

In 2007, I joined the blogging community and I found myself amongst a group of like minded, vintage loving, crafting people. 

Very quickly, I found myself being invited to join in with the vintage fairs and that was great fun too! I acquired my vintage fabrics from various sources, mostly in the U.S. …and back in those days, the cost of the postage was pretty cheap. Sellers had these ‘global priority envelopes’ into which they could stuff as much as 10 yards! And the £/$ exchange rate wasn’t too bad either.  Good times! 

I’ve always been a history lover and the history of textiles intrigued me, especially the history of feedsack fabrics.

Not only that, the designs were lovely, individual and unique. I loved them!

I also enjoyed making up packs of smaller fabrics for crafters…as many crafters don’t want full yards, because they work with small pieces.

And the years flew by! Things changed. Vintage fabrics became more expensive as did postage costs until it really wasn’t viable to continue selling the fabrics as people just didn’t want to pay more expensive prices. So, I’ve been running down my stock of fabrics and I hardly have any vintage pieces remaining!

Yesterday, I took one of my vintage fabric packs and I decided to ‘create’, altering a clipboard. I actually started this clipboard a while ago but I didn’t get it finished. Having decorated it, I packed it with vintage fabric pieces on the front.

I filled the back with some of those lovely papers from Cambridge Imprint.

Whether it sells, who knows but I had great fun creating it!