I’ve been working for over a year on preparing for an eventual move to a retirement community, and that involves lightening the load of culch most of us accumulate. (Culch/cultch, the Maine word for the pile of stuff that accumulates on any non-rolling household. Learned from Louise Dickinson Rich’s books when we first moved to Maine.)

I inherited big piles of household linens, both commercial and handmade, mostly from my grandmother.

My grandmother, wedding photo from 1907

Here is some of her needlework:

One end of a dresser scarf. She made a number of dresser scarves.

This is the cover for a large pincushion, intended for hat pins. It matched the bedspread in the next picture.

This is the center medallion on the matching bedspread.

Another dresser scarf

I’ve had these linens for years without doing anything with them, and they aren’t my style. Finally I found a solution! I sent them all to a friend who loves vintage linens and knows a lot about them. It’s a win-win. The items have found an appreciative home and I don’t have to worry about them any more!