Fabulous re-fashioned swirlie skirts

Noreen Crone-Findlay — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:24:30 +0000

When I was in Portland OR, my friend Jorel found a fantastic craft market.

She discovered a booth where a terrific designer sells re-fashioned skirts that are just too wonderful for words.

Lizzy Originals of ShabbyKnapsack.com takes clothing that can no longer be worn, washes it, cuts it up and creates skirts to die for.

Did I buy one? oh, yes, you betcha! I loooooooooooooooooooooooove it!

Here I am, with my editor, Jenni Claydon, at the photo shoot for my new book.

I’m wearing my new favorite skirt!

Vintage lace collar or worthless scrap?

Noreen Crone-Findlay — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:38:30 +0000

My sisters-in-law and I absolutely love going to second hand stores.

A couple of weeks ago, we were in one of our favorites, when Sis spotted this old old crocheted piece in the back of a drawer:

She held it up to me and we both fell in love with it.

She asked the lady how much it was, and the lady tossed her wrist and went,

‘Oh, phfft, it’s free…. it’s worthless….. there’s a hole in the middle!’

Sis and I looked at each other in amazement and had to stiffle guffaws of delight and amazement.

Afterwards, I thought that this is another perfect example of how the way we interpret things colors the world!

The shop lady (bless her heart) saw it as a ruined old doily that some idiot had cut the center out of, rendering it worthless.

But Sis and I saw it as a gorgeous crocheted collar that was intriguing and deserving of study and re-fashioning into some smashing wonderful-ness.

I hadn’t even seen the possibility of it being a table runner! So interesting!

I am looking forward to analysing the filet crochet pattern of this collar and seeing how those perfect corners were worked.

Once again…. trash to treasure! yay!