A Paris Street Market June 2017

As I write this post, I am on the road with my dear friend Amy (owner of the Pink Attic Cat), her husband and my friend Greg on our way to Junkstock!

We enjoyed a beautiful sunny day this past Saturday at A Paris Street Market.

Created lots of new items.

Large batch of 130 vintage Embroidered Pin Cushions

Vintage Embroidered Doilies Garlands -21 new ones

Small batch of Camper Tea Towels -18 new ones

House and Girl Mix Media Keychains

It's been a very busy last few weeks. Inventory created mostly in preparation for my next market- Junkstock in Nebraska!

 

 

My new fabric sign

 

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Tattered Quilt Camper Tea Towels and Pillows

As I mentioned in yesterdays's post! I love creating using free form stitching or sewing illustration technique.

Creating Camper or Airstream inspired flour sack tea towels has been on my long list of new items to create for this market season. I plan on creating them using cotton fabrics, vintage trims, vintage buttons (door handles) and of course, use the free form stitching technique.

Two weeks ago, I went to an estate sale - after not having time to go to any Estate Sales for months. Between the 6th grade memory book and substitute teaching assignments (many on Thursday's and Friday's) I had not been able to go to any estate sales. I missed them!

At this estate sale, I found two great finds. A tattered quilt and a huge collection of vintage paper dolls. I am sharing the vintage paper doll collection with my friend Amy (owner of the Pink Attic Cat) who also loves paper dolls. We will sort though them sometime later and I will share photos on my blog. Probably sometime in June or July.

Getting back to the tattered quilt. Immediately I knew this tattered quilt would become the top half of my new Camper/Airstream Tea Towels! My initial sketched plans changed with this tattered quilt find. I continue to enjoy the creative process. This tattered quilt became the focal point and used cotton fabrics and vintage trims that would complement the vintage quilt portion of the Camper. I have learned to listen and follow my creative voice. I am pleased with the results and grateful so many people have like my Camper Tea Towels on Instagram (IsaCreationsVintage).

I created 16 Camper Tea Towels and 6 Camper pillows. The pillows have a zipper, which allows the pillows to be washable.

All my new handcrafted items will be available tomorrow at A Paris Street Market in Aspen Grove. Rain or Shine, 8 a.m. - 3 p.m.

 

 

 

 

Camper and Airstream Pillows. The size varies.

 

The back of the pillows is the same tattered quilt used on the front.

 

 

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Sweet Valentine...

Despite feeling under the weather with a cold, it was fun to be a part of the Pink Attic Cat's pop up event this past week. Saturday, customers enjoyed creating sweet Valentines using many wonderful create supplies provided by Amy, owner of the Pink Attic Cat in downtown Littleton.
This is my Valentine:

This is Amy's Valentine:

Love my purchases from the Pink Attic Cat. This is one of the items that had to come home with me:

Loved creating this vintage hankie doilie runner. I created 2 but only took photos of one.

A red burlap runner with ruffled edges and two white crochet runners on top.

Isa Creations Valentine highlights:

Wishing everyone a ver sweet Valentines Day!

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Vintage Hexagon Quilt Pieces Re-purposed (Part 2 of 2) & For the Love of Vintage at the Pink Attic Cat

I continue with more photos of my newest re-purposed items.

Love working with the Hexagon Quilt Pieces I found at an estate sale last summer (2015). Re-purposed these vintage gems into functional and decorative kitchen towels. All towels are 100% cotton and created using vintage trim.

Also, a reminder of my friend Amy's Pop up event at the Pink Attic Cat tomorrow, Thursday through Saturday.

 

I highly recommend attending the CreativiTea. Amy gives everyone access to a great assortment of wonderful vintage materials to create something special. I will be helping out at the shop. I love to watching Amy's customer's create wonderful one of a kind items, just in time for Valentine's Day.

This one is a bit different than the others. I used a vintage embroidered pillow case and re-purposed it into a kitchen towel. This is one of my favorites, perhaps became I remain drawn to hand embroidery and butterflies.

 

January was a good productive month!

I have also been working on my basement Studio space. I have been de-cluttering. Trust me, that has been quit a challenge. That project is still in progress but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I am pleased with the results so far.

 

Lots of old scrapbook papers and stamps have found new homes with several of my creative friends, including the Art class at my neighborhood elementary school where I work as a substitute teacher.

After I get my Isa Creations books all taken care of, I plan to continue to work on more vintage quilt pieces. Including a large stash of square quilt pieces I found during the summer of 2014 during a trip to my hometown of El Paso, Texas. This find is special to me because my sister and Robert's sister Bea went with me to an estate sale in the Rio Grande Valley. I see these square quilt pieces becoming houses and roofs (maybe even a camper) in the future.

 

 

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