Friday, January 20, 2012

Heirloom

Sometimes life aligns in strange but wonderful ways. In the same week I received in Joel Dewberry's Heirloom fabric line, I also inherited a family heirloom - a straight-back wooden chair.
The chair was made by my great, great, great grandparents. What makes it even more special is that I was named after my great, great, great grandma who owned the chair - Sarah.
Excellent craftsmanship and exquisite details, this chair is quite exceptional.
I decided to use it as my sewing chair and plan to make a patchwork seat cushion to add warmth and color.
The Heirloom collection from Joel Dewberry is breathtaking. Olivia and I squealed when she helped me unpack the box this week! We're carrying seven of the beautiful prints in our shop. To celebrate the new inventory, I want to give away a 7 fat quarter bundle from the line. :-)
To enter, leave a comment on this post telling us what your favorite heirloom is. Deadline: Tuesday, January 24 midnight EST. Good luck!

38 comments:

  1. I love them all. But my favorite is Empire Weave in Amethyst. Thanks a wonderful giveaway.

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  2. Gorgeous! I love the back of the chair! The only heirloom I'm aware of on my end is a gigantic china hutch that will most likely not fit anywhere! But it's pretty, just like every single fabric in this line! Thanks for the giveaway.

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  3. Wow these are totally wonderful ...

    Are we talking heirloom as in handed down - in which case it would be an oil painting of roses my great grandfather painted!

    If we're talking fabric, then that marble stripe is fab - and I love the chyrsanthemums ...

    Oooh hope I win! I'm all excited now :)

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  4. I love this line of fabrics!
    My favourite personal heirloom is my mum's engagement ring which my dad bought in 1940 - it has little monetary value but it's priceless to me!

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  5. My most favorite heirloom is my grandma's featherweight. She gave it to me before she passed away :-) I love all these fabrics they are beautiful! Thanks for the giveaway!

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  6. My mom just gave me a bit of stitching that my grandmother had made for my birth. I think it is supposed to be a sheet, it has a little duckling on it.

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  7. My favorite heirloom is a platform rocking chair that has to be from the late 1800's. It has the original upholstery. Those fabrics are wonderful. Thank you for hosting a giveaway.

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  8. Wow, your chair is just amazingly beautiful!! My favourite heirloom is going to be my mum's diamond earrings :) I hope you don't find me crass but I do like to cheekily joke to her about how I'd like them one day :)

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  9. The fabrics are beautiful! My favorite heirloom has to be the gold carriage clock that was given to my husband's grandfather upon his retirement as a chauffer in Scotland many, many years ago.

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  10. I don't really have any heirlooms... but I do have a box full of vintage buttons that belonged to my great-grandmother. I love it!

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  11. I love your chair and the story behind even more. I am really into family history and cherish the wonderful things I have inherited. My grandfather's two sugar bowls, he ate a lot of sugar, a rolling pin he personally made for me - beautiful wooden rolling pin, my grandmother's snowflake cake plate (I never got to meet her. She died 20 years before I was born.)the bed my Grandpa made that my son slept in for 20 years and my grandpa's pipe just to name a few. Grandpa died almost 30 years ago at age 94 but I still miss him. Every time I see my Grandpa's things my heart is reminded of what a wonderful man he was. I know this is long but thanks for letting me share my memories. :)

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  12. One of my now fav heirloom is a cabinet my father made. He passed away a few years ago and I'll be passing that on for sure. Other things are little figurines and jewelry. I wish I had some other items. I'm excited I may be making heirlooms for my future generations.

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  13. That new fabric is phenomenal! Love it.

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  14. One of my favorite heirlooms is my grandmother's old butter churn. I remember how she would sit in her rocking chair & rock & churn.

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  15. One of my favorite heirlooms is a spinning wheel my husband bought for me about 35 years ago. I love this line it is so beautiful and bright.

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  16. Don't have any heirlooms but rather what I hope will become one someday. My grandfather was a woodworker and I have a bunch of things he made for me.

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  17. I have a have a necklace that was my grandmother's that is a heart with praying hands on it. On the back of the hands is the Lord's prayer in very tiny print. I don't wear it much because I am afraid of losing it, but love it anyways!

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  18. Sadly, I don't own any real heirlooms, but I grow heirloom tomatoes! Haha. My favorite Heirloom fabric from Joel is (it's hard to pick one because I love them all) Chrysanthemum in Jade.

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  19. That's a great chair. I love hierlooms. I have my grandmother's bedroom suite, circa 1940. It is still in great shape. I also have a gorgeous dining room suite that belonged to my in-laws.

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  20. Hi! I love your chair. What a great heirloom to have. I have a sewing rocker and jewelry box from my grandmother. She got the rocker when she was first married. I was named after my grandmother. her name was Irene Sarah. :)

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  21. My sister actually has my favorite heirloom, a chair we always called The Christmas Chair, because, as my Dad and aunt had done, we hung our Chrismas stockings on it each year. It has an ornately carved very straight back and a not very padded leather seat.

    I have my second favorite heirloom, a Lincoln rocker, which is an antique, but my aunt had the wood bleached in the 1950s to look better in her sunroom. It is constructed using pegs instead of nails and has been recanted several times. It originally belonged to one of my father's aunts and is over 100 years old. We rocked both of our babies in it and it now resides in our sunroom.

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  22. My favorite heirloom is a doll quilt my grandmother made for me over sixty years ago. Since I am one of nine children, heirlooms are pretty rare because many things were worn out.

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  23. Blockade Blossom in Fuchsia is my favorite in the heirloom collection.

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  24. My goodness, those are indeed beautiful! For a wedding gift, my Mom gave me my great, great, great aunt's sewing kit, including needles marked from 1864 -- how amazing and cool!

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  25. My mom has a quilt that is hand stitched by my great grandmother, it has large butterflies of various fabrics on it...the butterflies are made from fabrics from my grandmother's dresses when she was young. Hoping that gets passed down to me!

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  26. My favorite heirloom is my grandmother's sapphire ring... she and I were very close, and she's the one who taught me to quilt! Sapphire is both of our birthstone's, and she received the ring for her retirement, and then passed it to me when I graduated high school. When hubby and I got engaged, we had the stone placed into my engagement ring, and I get tons of comments and compliments on it. I think of her every day when I see it!

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  27. My favorite heirloom is my grandmother's treadle sewing machine, that still works. I watched her sew on it when I was a young girl.

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  28. My favorite heirlooms are some of my Grandfathers wood carvings. I remember going to visit him when he was working on something... he smelled of wood! The best smell ever!

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  29. There aren't many physical heirlooms in my family, since my father's family fled the Ukraine and Stalin during WWII, and my mum's family was poor in the UK and even more poor when they got off the ship in the late 1940s. But in a way that makes the few things we have even more special...the bells from my great-grandfather's horses, some of my great-grandmother's crocheted blankets, my grandfather's sketchbooks...they're all a brief window into lives lived in the past, and I cherish them all.

    You're chair is stunning. How wonderful to have a piece from the home of your namesake!

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  30. I love my mom's wedding suit. I have it hanging in a shadow box on the wall in my stairwell along with my parents' engagement photos. Love your chairs - I have a pair of chairs that were my grandparents that I use in my living room. Mary Ann

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  31. Oh Sarah...love the history! Wonderful that you have receive this chair and that it has the same name as you. :) As for my own family heirlooms, my grandfather traveled around the United States in the early part of the 20th century collecting teacups for my grandmother. Those teacups are now mine and although are on display at my father's house I "visit" them almost every time I'm at his house (daily). If I only knew the story of each of those teacups! Thank you for the opportunity for the giveaway. :)

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  32. Beautiful fabric! My favorite heirloom is a china cabinet that belonged to my maternal grandparents.
    Thanks for the chance to win!

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  33. My favourite heirloom is a Victorian solid mahogany blanket box that I inherited from my Grandparents. It is beautiful but a pig to dust! Thanks for the chance to win purple!

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  34. Beautiful! I have my mother's rocking chair & table she bought while engaged to my dad. I love the set! Every baby in our family has been rocked to sleep in that chair.

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  35. My favorite is a quilt that I remember hand quilting late at night with my Mom. I helped because I got alone time with my Mom.

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  36. What a fabulous chair and story to go with it. So nice you can pass that on too. My favorite heirloom is my grandmother's watch. She bought it for herself with her "pin" money and passed it on to my Aunt who gave it to me 10 years ago.

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  37. Sarah, I just found your blog and I love it! My favorite heirloom is a hand quilted double wedding ring quilt from my late grandmother. It keeps us warm every night. It was made using beautiful scrap fabrics from dresses/clothes she had made. I love it.

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  38. My favorite heirloom is the set of Enoch Woods blue and white transferware dishes that belonged to my grandmother. She gave them to me after I got married and I absolutely love the simplicity and elegance of them. Thanks for the chance to win. Joel Dewberry knows what he's doing, huh?

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