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Antique Advertising
December 2022Good Eye Antique Advertisingby Peggy Whiteneck Old advertising items Old advertising items can be a fun and affordable collecting gig, and there are many useful and interesting ways to enjoy them! The graphics are often colorful and the taglines are...
Collectibles Commemorating British Royalty
November 2022Good Eye Collectibles Commemorating British Royaltyby Peggy Whiteneck The year 2022 was the 70th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who was still mentally robust but, at age 96, physically frail in the few photos taken of her this year....
Adventures in antique selling
October 2022Good Eye Adventures in antique sellingby Peggy Whiteneck She was not your typical buyer. She looked more like my inner stereotype of a “biker chick” in her leather jacket, boots, and dark makeup. I had my doubts that she’d be a paying customer when she...
Zigzag patterns for the win!
September 2022Covering QuiltsZigzag patterns for the win! by Sandra Starley If you are like me, you find antique quilts very inspiring. Old quilts can really get your creativity flowing. Studying antique quilts is a wonderful way to not only understand history...
Learn something new – take a quilt class
August 2022Covering QuiltsLearn something new - take a quilt class by Sandra Starley This year, I have been focusing my column on the benefits of learning new quilting skills whether to stretch your brain or finish old projects. One great way to learn a new...
UFO, PHDS, and WIPS, oh my! Finding and finishing your unfinished projects
July 2022Covering QuiltsUFO, PHDS, and WIPS, oh my! Finding and finishing your unfinished projects by Sandra Starley What is in your work room? If you are like most quilters, you have lots of partial projects, leftovers or orphan blocks lurking in your sewing...
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Solving a jigsaw puzzle—80 years later
April 2022Vintage Discoveries Solving a jigsaw puzzle—80 years laterby Ken Weyand Bored Youngster When I was a youngster, we would occasionally spend Sundays with my dad’s stepmother and his two sisters in Hamilton, IL, across the river from Keokuk, IA. I...
Old nursery rhyme book fondly remembered
March 2022Vintage Discoveries Old nursery rhyme book fondly remembered ~ by Ken Weyand ~ My first books One of my first books – saved by my mother over the years – recently turned up in my attic. “Three Little Pigs” is a nursery rhyme classic, and it was...
Donald Duck pull toy was a 1940s hit
February 2022 Vintage Discoveries Donald Duck pull toy was a 1940s hit ~ by Ken Weyand ~ As a youngster, one of my favorite comic-strip characters was Donald Duck, a creation of the Walt Disney Co. in the 1930s. Like many of his contemporaries, Donald...
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