Comments on: A Mendocino Flea Market

By: gunnel svensson

gunnel svensson — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:26:31 +0000

“These are the textiles that were calling to me…..”

Oh, I can feel the same when I am on flemarkets!

By: debraann

debraann — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:09:23 +0000

What a wonderful day and what wonderful finds!

By: mendofleur

mendofleur — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:13:38 +0000

I think you and I must have lived in that same era. I see the “painting” you described too, kind of similar to a Vermeer. How nice to let these images immediately come to mind.

By: mendofleur

mendofleur — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:06:52 +0000

Yes, I agree that this piece should be shown in some special way since the woman cherished it so much. As jude said, this cloth has a story.

I can see your dog in the window with the curtain, but honestly look how creative she is indirectly forcing this tablecloth turned curtain to become. Crazy dog turns cloth into crazy quilt. I love the visual!

By: Pat Sieler

Pat Sieler — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:44:32 +0000

What a treat and what a find. That repair makes me take my mind back to what life might have been like to the woman that used that piece. The gentle light that came through the window, as she sat there and did the repair. Then put a picture frame in front of it, so it wouldn’t be that apparent. Good grief, what fantasies I create for some other lifetime!

By: Vicky

Vicky — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:01:36 +0000

Frame the doily. Or maybe stitch it carefully to a background fabric that would show it off [dark ecru?] and quilt around it. I love to show off boo-boos and mends. [i made a band-aid shaped/color patch for a granddaughter quilt.]

I have a table cloth [g.ma's] turned curtain in my window that keeps getting in the dogs way when she becomes Bad-Assed-Dog, and I keep mending it with other textiles of my grandmothers. Someday it will be quite the ‘crazy quilt.’

I think it’s a Kandinsky calendar my daughter has, we love the colors and shapes too. Grasset may not be a fave of mine, but I always admire the detail and colors of the work and the era.

By: mendofleur

mendofleur — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:00:32 +0000

I’ll bet you have a wonderful collection of these cards! I am assuming the grandmother your parents visited lives in Mendocino or near this area. To have things that belonged to your grandmother would be a very special treasure. I cannot imagine a better granddaughter to inherit and respect such heirlooms.

By: mendofleur

mendofleur — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:56:49 +0000

There is a part of me that would love to enter this world of beauty, refinement and elegant dress. I admire women who still maintain this ability to create colors in their gardens that also reflect an elegance and joy in their everyday dress. I tend to wear the clothes that are easy and comfortable. I always toy with the idea of wearing more skirts and dresses with happy colors and feminine touches.

By: mendofleur

mendofleur — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:49:35 +0000

Of all the people I know that work with cloth, you have a sensitivity that is rare and beautiful. The conversations you have with cloth truly are the stories that we as readers love to experience and see. I learn something from you every time I visit spiritcloth. Yes, that mending is so touching and endearing. It is also something one does not see anymore in our throw-away society.

By: Deb G

Deb G — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:03:53 +0000

I use to buy cards I liked when I found them and now have a collection!

The fabric is another story…. My parents brought me a whole bag of things like the one you pictured the last time they went to visit my grandmother.