OH YEAH BABY!! Check this out!!!
I am besotted with this tin. Everything about it is beautiful. Right down to the scratty little bit of newspaper stuck on the bottom. It’s only 4 inches wide and 3 inches high. I bought it here and it’s MINE!
The quilt it’s sitting on is a red and white strippy that I made a few years ago that is on our bed most of the time. We don’t have a family tradition of quilting but, if we did, it’s most likely that my forebears would have made quilts that look like this. Two reasons:
1. They would have had impeccable taste and a passion for red.
2. They lived in the far North of England (some of them) and Strippys are from that area.
(I just tried to find some links about Strippys. Sadly, there weren’t many good ones. If you are interested, this is a good article (no pics). I’ll get Peter to help me photograph mine and post it later.)
I”ve looked and looked at this tin trying to figure out why you like it so much and then it hit me – you can hide a muffin in it. Right?
By: deedee on June 25, 2008
at 9:40 am
Looks very like a tea caddy that lived in our kitchen cupboard when I was little.My mother aquired it somewhere along the line before she married.
Kisrten, would you email me,please, as I’d like some info on WordPress. Thanks.
By: dinahmow on June 25, 2008
at 10:34 am
I’m sure that many readers are scratching their heads at your excitement, but not I. It is perfect….from color to condition. Simply charming!
By: Jan on June 25, 2008
at 10:46 am
That is a great tin – nice worn textures and a perfect shade of red. An object which will give you pleasure each time you see it. May you hide many muffins in it!
By: Tanya Brown on June 25, 2008
at 2:21 pm
the perfect find!
and i love the buttons you made
By: denise on June 25, 2008
at 2:29 pm
ohh good find! I’ve got the fabric for my red and white strippy. Carefully stashed. It’s beautiful beautiful cotton sateen…..one day one day.
By: pixie on June 25, 2008
at 3:58 pm
It looks like it has lived a life and has tales to tell.
By: peppermintpatcher on June 25, 2008
at 4:11 pm
I just can’t ‘get’ red. I frightens me, & it seems it always has. Perhaps I am a ’sad case’?
By: meggie on June 25, 2008
at 6:05 pm
Well, I like the quilt a lot. And the tin was probably charming in its day. But is it not a bit.. well… loved-looking?
By: Isabelle on June 26, 2008
at 7:24 am
What is it about little red old tins that is so fascinating?! I cannot pass a charity shop without snapping this sort of thing up!
oh and pssst! I have a new blog! Have a looksee at the craft page (and the rest if you are so inclined – you might see something you recognise in the sidebar!)
By: kate1976 on June 26, 2008
at 6:28 pm
I’m coveting the tin.
By: Michelle on June 27, 2008
at 1:22 am
Hi, I actually live very close to your stippy quilt area in the North of England, I think Durham quilts are amazing and the work that went into them is just awesome. There is a place called Beamish Museum which displays some of the best quilts but unfortunately there aren’t any pics on their website
lisa x
By: periwinkle on June 27, 2008
at 5:24 pm
I agree that the tin is gorgeous – very wabi sabi, reflecting the passage of time and the wear and tear of our human condition – well-loved, indeed!
Thanks for visiting my blog, I certainly enjoyed returning the favour – love your thrift finds, right up my alley. Buttons are terribly seductive little winking things aren’t they? I can never resist!
By: Heather on June 28, 2008
at 12:51 am
ooooh that tin is a real treasure! I am currently fighting a terrible battle with temptation, I saw a little metal cabinet the other day, in similar condition to your tin, it must have been enamelled cream once upon a time but is now a sort of blotchy rusty brown, If you lift up the lid, it has a cute little white enamelled basin, with a tiny perfectly turned metal plug, and the original soap dish, and in the cabinet underneath is the original bucket for draining the basin into, and an enamelled jug to fill it up. It is quite pricey, so i am doing all sorts of rationalising to justify why it is WAY more important to own (and find space for) this old treasure than eat this month! I think with items like this there are two distinct types of reaction, you are either completely besotted, or you just don’t get it at all, people are seldom neutral towards them!
By: suzi-k on June 28, 2008
at 3:39 am
The little red tin is a cutie pie. Speaking of red I remeber when the Little Red School Book cause much consternation up and down the country when I was at school. How tame it all must seem now
By: helen on June 28, 2008
at 9:06 pm
red glourious red, thank goodness for red,oh the week is starting again ,, hope it is a good one
By: Margie on June 29, 2008
at 10:16 pm
Ohhh I love this tin in its worn, loved state. I’m also a strippy & whole cloth quilt fan. So nice to discover your blog via threadspider’s. I’ll be sure to return.
By: Patti on July 2, 2008
at 1:46 am
Excellent handwork. I was surfing and found your blog…..I love it. Take care.
By: Rhonda on July 4, 2008
at 11:33 am
Kirsty – how strange and interesting that you bought that from someone who lives only 6 or 8 miles from me! Small world…
By: Ricki on July 7, 2008
at 10:55 am
Oooo! I love the red tin! Of course, I love just about anything red. Especially if it’s old. lol!
And I do want to see a picture of that whole red and white quilt on your bed! I love strippy quilts, and the funny thing is that literally, just a couple of hours ago, I was going through my red fabrics because I want to make a red and white strippy quilt, kind of like the one in the Denyse Schmidt Quilts book. Then, I started wondering if I should throw some turquoise in with it…then I got all distracted and started checking in on my favorite old blogs (NOT that I’m saying you are old! lol!) but…just haven’t been in the mood to do much of anything in a while. Blah, blah, blah…
By: Lauri on July 9, 2008
at 12:18 pm
why do you taunt me so ?
excellent tin, and thanks for the strippy link .. interesting.
By: h&b on July 22, 2008
at 8:03 pm