Little Honey from the Fleamarket

The day of the flea market my mother and her sister, Gen, came over to give me a bit of relief.  I think they got there about 1 so while they watched my booth, I went and got something to eat.  As I strolled around the market looking to see what else was there I saw a gentleman adjusting items on his table and I caught sight of this little honey.

Junior Miss, with both clamps, original box and instructions.  I didn't dicker too hard and she came home with me.  Someone asked the other night how many of these toy and small machines I have now.  I think I counted 8 tonight.

It just so happens that the day before at the LAP show in their "garage sale" area I bought this book. Along with some reference books and some wonderful Japanese quilt magazines/  Maybe Junior Miss was sending my vibes already the day before?!!

Lansing Area Patchers Quilt Show

There are 2 major quilt guilds here in Lansing.  Capitol City Quilt Guild which I belong to with about 200 members and Lansing Area Patchers which has a membership I think of about 70.  We put quilt shows on on alternating years and this year was LAP's turn.  I went to their show on Saturday and then was at the flea market all day the next day.  I worked in the morning from 9-11 selling raffle tickets on our guild's raffle quilt.  Then I went through the show.  It's always nice to see friends work that maybe you haven't seen at our small meeting.  Or maybe that you have seen  but not in a while.  Here were a few favorites:

Feathered Stars by Pam Marcis

Cathedral Star by Carol Schon

Flower Box by Lennie Rathbun

Foster Street Garden Tour by Pam Marcis

Edyta Sitar quilt by Georgiana Viele

Goose on the puddle by Carolyn Babcock

Hour glass by Georgiana Viele

Me, myself and I by Pam Marcis

My Favorite Things by Pam Marcis

Pavement from Friends by Carol Schon

Oh, Mz. Scarlett by Pam Marcis

Study in Red by Georgiana Viele

The Happy Quilt by Carolyn Babcock
I also saw this quilt at the Shipshewana quilt show last year and recently came across in on the cover of a 2005 Quilter's Newsletter Magazine.  I have been saving bright and polka dots, but still am not sure I'm up to this.  Great job Carolyn.

Warm Wishes by Georgiana Viele

Well, these were a few of the quilts at the LAP Show.  Can you tell my favorites are traditional quilts?  Even so, I don't remember seeing a lot of "art quilts" at the show.  But that's fine by me.  I take inspiration where ever I find it.

Great show ladies.  Thanks for your hard work.

Sorry for Absence

Blogger has changed and after reading everyone elses complaints I was leery about trying to get in and write again.  But I'm giving it the old college try.  I have been going to lots of estates sales on the weekends, sometimes as many as 3.  I used to buy items at my brothers estate sales on the last day of the sales.  Items are usually 1/2 price and there always seemed to be great items left that didn't get bought.  I hated to see them just to go the landfil or some other sad fate.  So I would buy them and they resell them at the fleamarket.  After getting a few really bad sunburns.  And spending a few really hot days on an asphalt parking lot I had decided to give it up. 

I gave my inventory to my mom for her garage sale to support her hospice work.  And what she had left she gave to the Knights of Columbus for their sale.  But after some sales over the winter, I decided to do it again this next season.  Missed the first sale in April (rainy), but am planning to go the next sale this Sunday 10-3 at the Mega Mall on old 27.  So I have been buying, cleaning, and packing items.  So I will share some pictures if items recently bought.  I try to pick up items that would be of interest to collectors as well as crafters.  Most lately have been antiques.  Some will stay with me to enjoy for a while and others will immediately go to the flea. And some I will always hold onto like a ladies collection of quilt pattern advertisements clipped out of the Lansing State Journal in 1929 and 1930.  There are some duplicates and I may let them go but that's no rush.
These were a few of my latest finds.

Four little pie pans and a donut/biscuit cutter

And this was my set up for the first fleamarket of the season for me.

It's funny that some of my best selling items were the designer fabric samples that I had for $1 each.  My "first up tent" came with no side panels.  Luckily I found some for $19 each on Walmart.com.  They shipped to the store and I picked them up there.  Only used one this first time but it was a big help with the sun.  I was the only person on my row who had a shade and I was probably 20 degrees cooler than anyone else.  Next time I think I need to add bottles of water in an ice cooler and I can clean up.

Following is a photo of the weekly newspaper pattern cuts out that I got a couple of sales ago.  These definitely would have gone to the dump had I not picked them up.

Thanks for visiting.