This booth at the Hillsborough Antique Show was filled to the brim with linen, grain sacks, mangle cloths and pillows. It made my heart skip a beat!
I passed up this lovely yardage. Now I regret it! It's unusual to find flax linen like this with the caramel brown stripe. It would have been a wonderful runner for the Thanksgiving table!
There were other colors too. Red stripe, purple stripe, blue and black striped runners. Why didn't I at least get a couple of yards?
I thought these Christmas stockings were adorable! They would have been perfect for my #1 daughter's family. Passed them up....
As well as these monogrammed sachets filled with lavender. They would make great little gifts, but no, I left them there!
There were many monogrammed grain sacks too. My BFF, Maureen found a mangle cloth with her initials. Perfect as a tablecloth. I made her buy it! But again, I didn't buy a thing. What was wrong with me?
As much as I love this look, there is just so much that one can have before it becomes too much of a good thing.
For instance, I had slipcovers made for these two captain's chairs out of grain sacks. If I added a similar runner for the table, it would be too much.
I even upholstered my four French chairs out of coffee sacks!
Which went great with the linen and burlap tablescape I did back in May.
The living room is a study in linen!
I even had a French grain sack framed!
As much as I regret passing up all the great European linens at the antique show, I think it was probably the right thing to do. For once, I listened to my gut and told myself, "you have enough of this already!"
I found it interesting that this was the only grain sack I found in Italy!
Seriously, I did not see one bit of burlap or linen there.
Which also confirmed to me that I shouldn't invest anymore in this look!
I did get the dealer's card though, just in case!
That caramel stripe runner is calling my name!
