Becky, congratulations! This rug sounds like it will be perfect for your current glamper renovations on your Teri red and white trailer. So perfect for you!

Congratulations Michele! I am another “older” blond about the same age who found MJF and inspiration to my heart too. Enjoy quilting up some fun for your Farmgirl Home!

Congratulations Carmen! What a great win for your farm and animals too. Pesky flies be gone!

OMG. One of my readers (B) sent me over here. This is FANTASTIC! As an avid gelli printer and animal lover, this is fantastic. I’ve made homemade gel plates and the gelatin (which has always grossed me out) stunk to high heaven! No wonder, given what it’s made from. Artists don’t really like to use products that make them want to throw up 🙂

So I’m very happy to learn of your invention. And happy to see art and your work crossing paths.

Jean, you are going to love these quality clothes pins!! Congratulations and enjoy the upcoming cool fall days of perfect laundry drying outside.

Congratulations Amelia!! You are going to love all of MaryJanes tips and ideas to enhance your glamping fun. Enjoy!!

Congratulations Moma!! What a lovely story you tell about your neighbor Shelley. She sounds like a wonderful person to have in your life! Enjoy this great prize.

Just started my own little homestead this past spring. Over the years I’ve been collecting items I would need. We moved this past Feb. and it’s been great. So far 18 chickens and 2 ducks for the grandkids. My garden is great and next year I will start my flower gardens. I started selling my eggs already. It’s been hard work, but a great time. Thanks for the advise in your magazine it’s been so helpful.

Love Mary Janes Farm magazine because it reminds me that there are people all over the world who think like I do!

The thing I like most about MaryJanes is that it shows women ways to do things they thought were out of reach. These women can also brainstorm in the forums with others who live totally different lives but share a common denominator.

This is a pretty little tablecloth. I do love the crocheted edge. My favorite vintage linens are the ones that also have embroidery on them as well. I love old pillowcases with embroidery and colorful crocheted edges the best.

My favorite vintage linens come from my grandmother and her sister (great aunt)
they were passes to my mom and now I have them, most of them are used on a daily basis.

My favorite vintage linens are the ones I inherited from my mother and mother-in-law. Not only are they beautiful, but they are priceless with their rich family stories and history. Each one tells of a different event or tradition.

I enjoy thrift store shopping and antique malls, and love to collect doilies, tablecloths, tea cozies, dish towels, and Halloween potholders. I also have a big collection of cloth dinner napkins. Your coffee-stained tablecloth is just beautiful!

I love the colorful vintage embroidered kitchen towels! 🙂

I am privileged to have inherited my grandmother’s linens, many with her embroidered initials on them as they did back in the day. My personal favorites though were the 1920-30s cocktail sets, of placemats, tiny napkins, and even little petticoats for bases of the glasses, all intricately embroidered with what else, Roosters aka Cocks where the beverage’s name came from . Just so sweet.

My favorite linens are all the doilies I have from my Grandmother and also my Husband’s Grandmother. I inherited a bag from each of these ladies after their passing. What a real treasure and wonderful memory of each of them. Someday my daughter will have two of her Great Grandmother’s family treasures.

ohh…vintage linens…I collect and repurpose them into aprons, pillows and the such… I love the vintage pillowcases with embroidery, and if I find a single pillowcase at an antique store, etc., I will purchase it and repurpose it into an apron.. I never break up a set…those I would use on my bed! I have some of my mom’s and grandmothers linens that I use everyday….and, I tea dye linens to age them…my favorite would be the linen one on my bedside table made by my great grandmother…woven by her and intricately embroidered…I have a basket full of linen napkins on my kitchen table and one on the dining room table that are always in use at my house..even on “pizza day at Grammie’s”…stains soak out easily from vintage linens without harming them in oxyblast and cold water…overnight…the table cover pictured is really pretty!

When I was young, I enjoyed watching my Grandmothers, one loved to crochet doilies and the other favored embroidering on pillowcases, dresser scarves and tea-towels. Such sweet ladies, I treasure the linens I inherited from them!

I love to collect vintage doilies, tablecloths, pillowcases, actually anything vintage…

I have tried tea staining in the past, but never coffee staining. The results are lovely!
My favorite vintage linens are the ones that my great grandmother gave me. They were made by her and her mother. The have graced our family homes for well over a hundred years. Each stitch reminds me of her, and her love of our family and the care she showed to keeping a beautiful home.

I search out my vintage linens at yard sales, rummage sales, online auction sites, flea markets, etc. Unfortunately, my Mother did not hang on to the linens passed down to her and all I have are the things my grandmothers gave to me directly. Luckily, my Mother stayed out of my Hope Chest and my “findings” were safe while I was in the Air Force until I married. I remember my Mother writing and asking if I “really want me to send you all these old things I found in your Hope Chest?” Have been building on those early beginnings ever since.

Love the tea-stained tablecloth. I love all vintage things. I have many of my grandmothers and great-grandmothers.i have made two of my daughters quilts with hand-worked pieces from four generations past, their mother (me), grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother. I framed pieces in barnwood frames for my third daughter. There were crocheted doilies, embroidered pieces, yo-yo squares, appliqes. Better to be displayed or used instead of hidden in a cedar chest.

I have this beautiful tablecloth that has fruit on it! It’s nice and heavy with peaches, blueberries, apples and strawberries. I’m drawn to things with fruit on it!

I love the look of vintage fabrics and would like to incorporate them into my scheme of things! Thanks for the many ideas!

Vintage tablecloths are beautiful. I really like the coffee/tea stained product. I tried once with an old chenille bedspread. Not as nice as yours.

I love vintage pillowcases with embroidery and crocheted trim. My daughters used pieces of my grandmother’s unused crocheted trim around their bridal bouquets.

My favorite vintage linens are beautiful tone-on-tone ones (i.e. ecru linen with ecru embroidery, white crochet on white cotton, etc.) especially if the patterns originated in the “Old Country”. There is something so sentimental, historical, and meaningful whether you know the person who made the piece or not. To me, vintage linens represent the interconnectedness between women and also generations.

My favorite vintage linens are the old crochet doilies and hankies that belonged to my mother & mother-in-law.

i have a beautiful embroidered doily that my husbands great grandmother created. We were all recipients of one when my husbands grandmother passed away. My dear husband made oak frames for each of his siblings with a description and gave one to each of them. what a beautiful memento for them all!

My grandmother and her sister and husband all crocheted so I have tablecloths and doilies and kitchen towels that they made that are dear to me. The tea stained tablecloth would look lovely on the claw footed parlor table that inhabits my living room.

The family trunk is full of little trinkets and heirlooms wrapped up in the old linens that protect them. The linens themselves are a work of art. I have a collection of my own now and can’t pass them by at thrift stores or auctions. Each piece makes me think of all the work someone did (I don’t sew or crochet). Thankfully someone else does! I’d love to add another piece to my collection. Thanks!

Beautifully crochet works always remind me of my dear grandmother and the beautiful things she created over the years.

I am picking up all kinds of linens and doilies and pieces of lace to piece together for a bed skirt to put on our antique twin bed. As I pick these up I do wonder what home they came from. I like them tea/coffee died also.

My favorite? That is a tough one! But I think one of the most beautiful things ever was an apron made from an old, linen, toile blouse dropped in rit dye that was supposed to be red but turned out to be fuchsia:)=joy!

These little aprons are pretty and fun. My entrance to wearing aprons started with my first copy of MJF with the Dec/Jan 2009 issue. Slowly, I am building a collection which I now wear every day when I am cooking or outside if I am doing clean-up. I love aprons that have nice big pockets too.

I’ve been in love with aprons since I was a little girl. My grandma always put an apron on me when she let me “help” in her kitchen. My mom wore them when she baked. I’ve continued to wear them throughout my married life. And now I’ve passed on the tradition to my daughters & grandgirls by making them ones for birthdays & Christmas. I simply love aprons! I even hate going to any fabric store, as I usually end up finding something to make a new one!

I don’t wear them all of the time, but aprons make me feel special when I do. There’s such a homey feeling to put one on when I start baking and cooking.

I’ve adored aprons since being a little girl and helping my grandma in the kitchen. She was a real farm woman, making everything for her family. My mother followed the tradition of apron wearing and growing a garden to provide for her family. I’ve made a few for my own use and taught my daughter how to sew so that she could make hers. She’ll be getting married next April, and I may be rushing this a bit (lol!), but I can’t wait until a I have a granddaughter that I can make a little apron for!

love aprons..they make me think of my grandma..the old days..old fashion ways..i like to make and wear my aprons..i want to introduce them to my grand-daughters when they are old enough..aprons are fun!

Aprons make me think of home, food, family and traditions.

Aprons bring back memories of helping my mother can fruits and vegetables or helping grandma cook in the restaurant back home. I still wear an apron when I cook and bake and especially when I can vegetables.

This is such a cute apron…from hankies! I have an old MJ back issue magazine with apron patterns in it…love those patterns…I love to craft aprons from vintage materials…and, I collect aprons…just can’t resist them in the antique stores…and, the ones that are embroidered along the check lines….I think how someone made those and now there they sit in the antique store for sale…all that time to make them…so, I have to buy them, ha ha! ….my grand girls have aprons to wear when they help me in the kitchen and even my grandsons…with camo trim, for sure!

If you mention the word apron, I immediately think of the apron that holds my mother’s clothspins. To me it is the embellishment of a woman that loves the outdoors and the smell of fresh air. I can’t hang my laundry outside but I can still have the enjoyment of the memory and imagine the smell associated with that apron.

I have a couple of aprons on a hook in the kitchen. My prettiest one is white with battenburg lace and embroidered flowers. I keep meaning to wear one since I drop and spill stuff frequently. I don’t think about them until it is too late. Started early today dropping a piece of pancake with syrup on my lap. Maybe it’s a bib I need.
Since I use cloth handkerchiefs, It would be nice to have one made of hankies and maybe this one would be worn.

I started wearing an apron when I helped the Women’s Association at Church serve one of their many fund-raising dinners to support the Building Fund. We (the waitresses) all had to wear an apron to be allowed out of the kitchen! Discovered when I was pregnant that I had to tie my apron strings under my armpits, to protect the few maternity outfits I had during my first pregnancy. That is a habit that has been hard to break until I discovered the full length aprons. The early training I received from those ‘church ladies’ about not being dressed correctly without an apron has certainly hung on. My collection today is not very large, but love finding aprons whenever I can, particularly if they are vintage aprons.

Reminds me good ol days and Gramma! When things were slower and better……

Wearing an apron transports me back to a time that I would love to be in! I just feel like so much more housework gets done once it’s on:)

Aprons are wonderful cherished items in my home. I have memories of my grandma wearing one everyday, as we would walk through her vegetable and flower gardens. I have them hanging in my kitchen. I also have some from my grandpas bakery ones he didn’t even get to use. I added lace and hankies on them and gave as Christmas presents to the girls in our family. My father (84) was just smiling as he realized these were the ones from the bakery. From generation to generation with a small story made these extra special. My daughter wears the one I made in my school home ec. class years ago and she has several of my mothers in her collection.

I’ve worn aprons that were either my grandmothers or my mothers since I was old enough to walk! My love for Aprons is at least 60 years old!!!

I remember in High School taking a sewing class and having to make an apron. I did it but it wasn’t exactly as perfect as this one. I used my Mother’s she had some special aprons from my Grandmother. I loved the personal touches on them it makes them very special.

These hankies look much larger? but I love using old embroidered pillow cases. Hankies make good pockets. I have a drawer full of old hankies, beautiful colors and prints. I’ll have to see if I have any larger ones to make apron with.

I have fond memories of cooking with my mother with both of us wearing aprons. Now I love to sew aprons for my daughters, son-in-law (for grilling) and granddaughters!

After slimming down by 50lbs in the last year, I suddenly want to wear feminine aprons again and celebrate my accomplishment! The aprons in the latest issue of MJF are so beautiful and inspiring! What I wouldn’t give to find my own pile of those hankies!!

Aprons, remind me of going to my Grandma’s Farm and she always wore one baking,canning,and working around the house. She would even let me wear one when I came to her house. She made all her aprons out of old flour sacks and leftover fabric she had from her quilting and sewing projects. So many good memories……

Aprons bring back memories of my maternal grandmother (called her Granny). She always worn an apron, even when she wasn’t cooking. I think sometimes when she had hers on outside she would put the “little chicks” in the pockets. Just kidding!!! I did put the chicks in a basket and tote them around myself. Seeing her in her apron meant she was doing something important, mainly cooking (on her wood stove-when I was really young) for her family. And, if I may mention, she was an awesome cook.

I enjoy making aprons and wearing them! I have made so many for friends and family! They just make everything cozier!

My first aprons were made by my grandma. I have several aprons hanging in my kitchen. From ones from my grandma to ones from friends. I have even designed children’s aprons and given them away. Besides having some for sentimental reasons, I use some to keep my clothes from getting stained. I’m a messy cook.