Mary Coffin Sampler for Sale

For those who have ever been in the May Your Hands and Shady Bower courses, one of the premiere samplers out of the 15 known horizontal shady bower samplers that the project was based on is on sale!  The sampler had been in the collection of Ralph Esmerian and depositied in the American Museum of Folk Art in NYC.  I was able to view it there two years ago in preparing the research for the online version of the course.  

The piece is part of Sotheby's Americana auction in late January.  If you are in the NYC area and want to take a look before this wonderful sampler goes back into private collection you can view the collections between 10-5pm from Jan 18-23rd at the NYC Sotheby's location.  This auction is particularly rich with many samplers and folk art.  Just looking at the online catalog is a treat.  If you have the chance to go view it, it will be like a big folk art museum on sale.  You can always take something home!  The pre-sale estimate for this piece is $60,000-$80,000.

12 Days of After Christmas Giveaway - Day 12

This last giveaway is for a strawberry scissors stand!  The base of the stand has a hairline crack that is easily fixed with glue if it breaks, but I can't sell it to anyone.  So someone's lucky day!

Rules:

(1) send me an email to tricia@alum.mit.edu

(2) Put Scissors Stand in the subject line

(3)  Put your mailing address in the body of the email.  I won't chase anyone down for their address.

(4) email it by midnight EST Jan 7th

Good Luck and tune in tomorrow for another of the 12 days of giveaways!!

Tricia

P.S.  Some more winners! SANQ Spring - A. Zemkajute, Lithuania and M. Parr, Canada; Cottage - N. Frank, WA; Flowers - L. Sulger, CT; SANQ Summer 2013 - K. McFarland, OH; Janet Brandt - A. Wilson, MI

12 Days After Christmas Giveaway - Day 11

Elizabeth and Mary Daggett c. 1794 by R. Moulthrop.
 Permission Connecticut Historical Society 

This giveaway is for a poster of Elizabeth and Mary Daggett.  Elizabeth worked a sampler that we all helped CHS purchase to live with this charming portrait.

Rules:

(1) send me an email to tricia@alum.mit.edu

(2) Put Elizabeth in the subject line

(3)  Put your mailing address in the body of the email.  I won't chase anyone down for their address.

(4) email it by midnight EST Jan 6th

Good Luck and tune in tomorrow for another of the 12 days of giveaways!!

Tricia

P.S.  I have started sending out to the winners!  I forgot to write down a few of the first days, but here is a few of the next ones!  Stocking - S. Hottle, FL; Inspirations - H. Muth, British Columbia, Witney - R. Yamakawa, CA, S. Kooyman, UT, and T. Greenlee, AR.
JCS Christmas - A. Marcin, M; Mermaid - H. Gardner, MI

12 Days of After Christmas Giveaway - Day 10

This is a great giveaway!  This is a hand embroidered iPad cover by the embroiderers working for Zaanha.  Zaanha is a company founded by Wendy Summer, a student in Cabinet of Curiosities and a friend.  Wendy is a force of nature and single handedly has provided a fair trade marketplace for beautifully made textiles by women in war torn areas of Afghanistan.  I have been able to look over the pillows, accessories, and clothes they make and their skills are just amazing.  Send me an email and then go and take a look at her site.  Read her blog and understand how the purchases you make fund schools for girls!

Rules:

(1) send me an email to tricia@alum.mit.edu

(2) Put iPad in the subject line

(3)  Put your mailing address in the body of the email.  I won't chase anyone down for their address.

(4) email it by midnight EST Jan 5th

Good Luck and tune in tomorrow for another of the 12 days of giveaways!!

Tricia

12 Days After Christmas Giveaway - Day 9

Today's late giveaway is a pattern for a mini-applique quilt with the needed ceramic buttons.  A Garden of Delights!

Rules:

(1) send me an email to tricia@alum.mit.edu

(2) Put Garden in the subject line

(3)  Put your mailing address in the body of the email.  I won't chase anyone down for their address.

(4) email it by midnight EST Jan 4rd

Good Luck and tune in tomorrow for another of the 12 days of giveaways!!

Tricia

12 Days After Christmas Giveaway - Day 8

This is a great giveaway!  The last printed catalog for Sajou and a selection of their reproduction threadwinders.  I visited them this summer and they gave me these for my giveaways!

If you are going to be in Paris - they have opened a shop in the designer district.  They have their original store right next to Versailles.

Rules:

(1) send me an email to tricia@alum.mit.edu

(2) Put Sajou in the subject line

(3)  Put your mailing address in the body of the email.  I won't chase anyone down for their address.

(4) email it by midnight EST Jan 3rd

Good Luck and tune in tomorrow for another of the 12 days of giveaways!!

Tricia

12 Days After Christmas Giveaway - Day 7

Oops - forgot to press schedule on this one!  Today this is an assortment of cardboard box forms that allow you to cover them with fabric or needlework with sayings in them and booklets by Susan Branch.

Rules:

(1) send me an email to tricia@alum.mit.edu

(2) Put Boxes in the subject line

(3)  Put your mailing address in the body of the email.  I won't chase anyone down for their address.

(4) email it by midnight EST Jan 2nd

Good Luck and tune in tomorrow for another of the 12 days of giveaways!!

Tricia