In which I link a lot and reveal my strange thought process

I had some old cotton, the really over washed creamy feeling kind that my grandmother gave me. It had been embroidered by someone in her family, a sister or her mother or Auntie Mod. She wasn't sure who anymore. It was most likely used as a small table cloth or tea towel.

Its worn and a little shabby but I needed to use it for something. Optimally something I could see everyday :)
Then I was reading this delightful blog and saw how she has her flour kept in a canning pot. Genius. I have been searching for something to keep my flour in. The canisters you can buy are never big enough for the amount of flour I use to bake bread(and once again I am going to say buy this bread book. You will not be sorry). So its either keep refilling the canister or keep it in the bag, which will inevitably get a hole in it. Then I started thinking about flour sacks. Why in the world did they start packaging flour in paper?! And I knew; this is how I would use that sweet creamy hand embroidered cloth.
A seam up the side and one for the bottom and I had my own little flour sack to line my canning pot.



Finally a place for the flour.

You never know......

It all began when we ripped into the basement ceiling. We were adding extra insulation to what would become Elliot's nursery, then husband's seldom used office, and now my work room. Under the popcorn ceiling that was installed at one point by someone who I can only guess was insane, was a big surprise.
Our house was one of the many that were built during WWII to accommodate the many many families that relocated to our area to build ships during the war. It was a time of "waste not, want not" even when insulating houses it seemed. So when we got the ceiling down we discovered that our house is insulated with old newspaper forms from WWII.


I couldn't just throw them out! They were wonderful. So I have saved them. One ended up framed on my Mother's dinning room wall. But the rest just sat in my laundry room, and in time began to blend in with the wall. Then the other day my friend noticed them and asked what I was going to do with them.....and it began.
We tried to print onto fabric with a few methods involving fabric paint with no luck. Then we tried a sort of fabric crayon rubbing and this was the result.
There is still experimenting to be done on this project, but Im pretty excited about what I got so far. I know these will be sewn into something soon because I like them so much. Probably a simple market bag. I love these articles, and adds. I can't wait to experiment more with this.