Sunday 8 January 2012

Thrifted Collection: Tea towels

This week I thought I would show you part of my collection of tea towels. I have collected these over a year or so, all from op-shops, paying up to $2 for them, with most only costing around 50c each.
On The List of things I'd like to achieve in 2012 and beyond, at no. 45 is organising my tea towel collection, this will involve sewing some of them into cushions, market bags, a sewing machine cover, and maybe framing a couple, in order to appreciate their beauty around our new home a whole lot more than being folded and stored in a suitcase, although it is a sweet vintage case.






And a few more...



















24 comments:

  1. Gorgeous! The second and third one would be my favourite of the bunch.

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  2. Oh wow! I have BIG love for the Snowy Mountains one! I often skim over the tea-towels... maybe I should give them more of a rummage next time!

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  3. All lovely Zara. My pics: third, twelth and thirteenth.

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  4. Holy tea towel, Zara! That yellow tables cape, blue floral and orange and pink floral just speak cushion to me. What a collection. You could make a quilt with that loy.

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  5. Wow, what fab finds - these will look great in the kitchen or as part of a craft project! My fav are the 1st, 10th and 14th!

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  6. Love the Snowy Mountains tea towel! It does make Me want to visit, it looks so exciting! Lol!
    What a fab collection! And your ideas for what to sew them in to are great!

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  7. These are very cool, they will make great cushions! :)

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  8. I have spent the afternoon cutting up some of my Australian tea towel collection. I am making bunting for Australia day and hopefully if time permits, a few cushions too:)

    You have a lovely collection. I am so in love with the pink 1979 one.

    xo

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  9. what a great collection, it does demand chosing favorites, mine are the two one with mustard backgrounds and pink flowers. Do show us what you make from then wont you x

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  10. Great ollection, I ether fancy the oral ones and the donkeys.

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  11. I like the second one down and the two blue ones best! Nice collection and great prices to buy them at!

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  12. love! 3, 12 and 14 are my favs. the colours are so bright i just want to squeal! make sure you post loads of pics when you make them into cushions. love it.

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  13. They're SO cool! So many gorgeous ones. I always look for calendar teatowels - I'm trying to find my birth year or my sister Charlotte's birth year. No luck yet!

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  14. A beautiful collection Zara. The second last one is my favourite:)

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  15. Love them. I spot one there that Kylie sent me when she gave me the give away coaster. It's the 1979 one.

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  16. Such vivid colours, I would love to see how your market bags turn out!

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  17. what a fabulous collection Zara, I love the orange with pink floral and the liberty looking blue floral. Great finds.

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  18. Just lovely: I need to do something with all my vintage teatowels too! Gorgeous floral designs and I love the old souvenir/calendar ones too.

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  19. Ooo - you've got some bewdies there.
    Love the Snowy Mtns one and the pink roses on the ochre background.
    And the one with the blue background and white flowers.
    Great Barrier Reef one - great for a beach house.
    I've got a stack of old teatowels sitting in the corner waiting to be made into cushions.
    And I'm sure you've seen this but just in case you haven't ....
    http://fabricadabrablog.com/2011/04/

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  20. Don't ever tell me where you live, otherwise you might come home one day to discover this amazing collection of tea towels .... gone! Kellie xx

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  21. Oooh, they're lovely. If I had to choose my faves, they'd be no 10 and 14.

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