September 10-11, 2022 - Cambridge City Canal Days - Check out the local festivities in Cambridge City during Canal Days! Itinerary coming soon.
Selling space available: contact Tonya King (765) 960-6340. Proceeds from selling space rent benefit the Cambridge City billboard fund. Sat., AugJunk in the Trunk - Cleaning out the garage? Spring cleaning finally complete at home? Sell your unwanted items, or pick up a few new-to-you keepsakes! Sellers can set up from their trunks, box trucks, truck beds, or trailers all profits are yours! No guns, drugs, or alcohol sales permitted. Selling space available. Contact Tonya King (765) 960-6340. Sat., JArtisan Show - Browse from a selection of visiting artisans as they demonstrate and sell their wares. Selling space available. Contact Marty Troxell (765) 478-3800. While in town, check out the local antique stores and restaurants. Sat., JAntique Jar & Bottle Show - Browse antique bottles and jars from dealers across the country gathered in Cambridge City, IN. Swing by on your way through! Questions about National Road Garage Sales? Contact Pat McDaniel (765) 478-4809. Cambridge City is positional on National Road/Route 40, with many antique stores, restaurants, and businesses overlooking this shopping destination. June 1-5, 2022 - Historic National Road Garage Sale - From Maryland to Illinois, shop National Road (Route 40) garage sales. Outdoor booth space available contact Building 125 at (765) 478-5000. I actually considered adopting him ….Sat., Spring Antique Show - Join the businesses in Cambridge City for a day of antique shopping! Outdoor antique dealers will be set up in addition to the numerous antique stores lining Route 40. How about a life sized Frankenstein?!? LOL! There are more quilts to show, but they will have to wait – I’ve gotta get my self in gear and get over to where our Cathedral Stars workshop is for today!īut before I go – heheeh! You have to know what did NOT come home with me, right? You know you are waiting for that one weird thing, aren’t you? And it wasn’t the diving helmet! Seemed a shame to hide those cool salt and advertising sacks, though! I didn’t know whether to fold it right side or wrong side out! It sounds like they are describing my quilting space –can you read it?īasement – Every Space Crowded with Goods! LOLīelieving what I was told as a young girl going to Campfire Girls - leave each space better than you found it - I gently folded the quilt so someone else could view it a bit better. Here’s another advertisement on a cloth bag of some sort. They must have gone through LOADS of salt! But if you think of it, salt was used for everything including curing meat. The maker of this quilt saved the salt bags for use in piecing her quilt. Salt is not Salt! The Worcester Brand Salt :cD Salt, like flour and chicken feed and many other things also came in cloth bags. It made me think of my friend Karen Eckmeier and her lecture at VCQ last weekend –entitled - “Ooops! My Edges Are Showing!!” She does wonderful raw edge work…. Were those blacks from the clothing of someone in mourning? Each stitch was made by hand, and being as it is pieced on a fabric foundation, it is not quilted or bound…maybe they planned on finishing it in another way? The fabrics are deteriorating though, so I felt it best to be gentle with it and not cause further damage to it. Sadly, this antique mall was rather crowded and there was no place to lay this OUT to get a view of the whole quilt. I noticed right off that the strips varied in width and this gave many of the blocks a more “curved” appearance. It was just HANGING there, not even displayed to its best advantage, but the color and the sheen drew me right in. Here’s a glimpse of the quilt as I saw it first: This quilt was pieced on salt sacks and other bits of found “foundation” fabric with advertising on it! THAT is the cool part! What was once a deep navy is now a very pale grey-blue. I know some of those 1990s and other earlier ones have a bad habit of fading over time. It makes me wonder what is going to happen to the fabric in the quilts that I've made over the years. These are so beautiful - in such a TRAGIC way, because who KNEW that these fabrics would shred and shatter years down the road? I rounded the corner and came face to face with an antique silk and velvet log cabin.
Have you ever been more intrigued by the BACK of a quilt than the front? There were a few really INTERESTING things that I haven’t had a chance to share yet! I’ve got time to share ONE this morning - I’ll get to the others later. I gave a couple glimpses of things that I saw on my one Antique Mall stop on my way to New York….