Last weekend I had the privilege to attend a fabric/pattern swap that Mena Trott, the creator of the Sew Weekly blog, hosted. A dozen women brought piles of patterns, fabrics and notions to trade in hopes that our “trash” would be someone else’s “treasure”.
There were treasures and this was one : ) A very light-weight cotton, I couldn’t tell you if this was 50′s, 60′s or 70′s. The large flowers remind me of the Flower Power flowers of the 60′s while the small ones in the border have an Asian influence. I tend to think late 50′s, early 60′s. No matter, the colors are gorgeous!
We’ve got vintage, we’ve got modern!! The blue and yellow Fiesta are vintage, the “turquoise” is modern. The yellow bowls are not Fiesta (shocker!) but 79 cent IKEA finds. The little napkins are NOT from Nadine (shocker again) but came with the tablecloth with the cacti.
I couldn’t make up my mind about the silverware – french ivory or…
…yellow set from IKEA? Your choice.
If you aren’t a facebook fan of ours yet (LIKE us, we’d love to have you!) you may not have seen the recent story highlighting Fiestaware on CBS news. The most poignant part of the story, in my estimation, is the owner (fourth generation!) of the company talking about how important it is to make the dishes HERE, “to provide jobs to people who live here”. That’s a nice goal.
You can see the story here:
[...] vintage print I got at the swap Mena hosted earlier this year. I used it for a table setting (Day 284) and liked the combination of colors, not to mention the slight Asian style of the flowers. It took [...]
I actually like the ivory better, doesn’t over power the table with one color. That story on Fiesta wear gave me one more reason to buy it.