Goodies From Grandma

I went to New York this weekend to visit family. While I was at my grandmother's house, I got the urge to poke through her button collection. She has a whole box of buttons that she saved from various clothing items for the past forty years or so. When I was little we would use the buttons to play poker and other card games. My grandmother saw my interest in the buttons and decided that it was a window for her to give away most of her fabric stash. She hasn't really sewn in a long while and some of the fabric cuts had been around for decades. Above, you can see some awesome buttons, ribbon and buckles I scored.

There is entirely too much fabric for me to show it all here, but I can manage a few highlights. To the right is a sweet applique that was apparently left over from a dress Grandma made me when I was a toddler. Honestly, the applique is not the best quality (it's raw-edge and starting to fray), but I thought it was just so cute that I had to have it anyway. I figured that if I didn't use it for something I would at least use it as inspiration. I mean, who knew that slugs could be so cute?

Next is this very unique and pretty floral fabric. I've never seen anything quite like it. My grandmother said that it would make a nice tablecloth, but my house cannot allow a white tablecloth to exist for long before it is bombarded with stains. That's just asking for trouble. I have no idea what I'm going to do with this fabric, but it has wonderful potential and I just know that a project will present itself at some point.