The Remnants by Peo Vee Blog
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Tiny Crafters Time Capsules: Vintage Needle Booklets
Recently I was combing through a pile of goods I grabbed from a drawer at an estate sale. A box...
Crewel Intentions: Discovering a Vintage Stitch I Didn’t Know I Loved
I learned about crewel the same way I’ve learned about so many things: by buying too many old craft supplies....
Antique War Poems from 1918 as Craft Ephemera
I was browsing through a modest little estate-sale lot when I found them: a stack of brittle newspaper clippings, apparently...
Flower Looming: Is This Retro Craft Blooming Again?
I recently listed a small collection of flower loom pamphlets, brightly illustrated booklets from the 1960s and ’70s by Studio...
The Charm of Pincushions: Collecting and Creating Little Works of Art
Over the last year, estate sales have turned up pincushions tucked into sewing baskets, resting on dressers, or sitting proudly...
The Beauty of Unfinished Projects: Giving Craft Work a Second Life
Every crafter has them, those half-finished projects that linger at the bottom of a tote or the back of a...
Color Outside the Lines: Turning Discarded Crayons Into Art
What do you do with a pile of broken crayons? At Remnants, we see them turn up often, tossed into...
Kimekomi Ornaments: A Japanese Craft Discovered in an Estate Sale
In one of my recent estate sale hauls, I uncovered a small collection of ornaments that stopped me in my...
