telby69

Collections that I am still adding to:

All of the hosta's of the year. And many other hostas. - They live in my
p(h)asta garden.

Iowa Gold Star Futurity wine bottles (minus the wine :) )

Buttons and pins that are Arabian related - plan to make a wall-hanging quilt to display them.

Trail of Painted Pony Ornaments and Breyer Christmas horses.

Hanging crystals.

tuesy

Sewing related I collect pin cushions, and have a very small collection of sewing/pinking machines.. (1 of each).

Non sewing related I collect Egyptian Perfume Bottles, Old jars. Painted Ponies, Antique blown glass, Santa's, Willow Tree figurines, Americana, Hearts, and pretty much anything cat related.. not including my cats!

AtHomeSewing

Sewing related: Quilting magazines, are a special treat. I don't subscribe to any, it is simply fun to pick them up now and then. I keep track of mine online at the Library Thing just because it is fun to look at all of the covers at once -- a splash full of colorful quilt tops!

TEXASQUILTS

Well, I collect glass paper weights, pink milk glass, old glass eye cups
and vintage sewing notions and related items. Buttons, I just spent
two weeks working at night watching TV sort 2 gallons of buttons by
color. (I love looking at the jars its like candy in a candy store.)
Just bought two vintage jars (huge they look like pickle barrels) to feel
with all the thread spools I have collected.

Rhonda

My mom collects eye cups and moustache cups. Your jars that look like pickle barrels are probably antique or collectible pickle jars. I have a lot of them in all sizes and shapes. And they do look like a glass pickle barrel. I have some that are tall and skinny and some that are squat and round etc. I love the look of them. Do yours have any handles? My two biggest ones have handles and a couple of the middle size ones do too.

I would love to see a pic of your Pickle Jars. I keep flour in one of my biggest ones and sugar in the other. I keep powdered sugar in one of the middle sizes and colored macaroni in one. I use a lot of mine as canisters for various food items.

Rhonda

Thanks Karen for the link! I went and signed up. I have boxes and boxes and boxes of Harlequins. Nobody wants them. I do reread them some but I wanted more that I haven't read. The only down side is I have to wait for someone to ask for mine before I can order more! LOL I so appreciate the link. I need to put more books on there so there are more chances to get rid of mine and get more! thanks again!!

Mousie

I started reading this thread and have to laugh at myself. For a while I kept going: "i have that, I have those, I keep those, I love those...."
then somebody mentioned whether you have these things on display or use them.
Except for nicknacks and pictures, I use all of my stuff.
here are some of what I guess I hoard, but use, lol:
-quilting and craft magazines
-home decorting mags, esp. romantic homes, and holiday issues
-all kinds of sewing notions, threads, fabrics, pin...i have appl. pins, reg. -ss pins, colored head pins, long ones, short one, medium ones
-safety pins...and the curved quilting safety pins
-you name it, if it is for quilting I keep it
-acrylic paints
-embroidery flosses
-silk ribbon for embroider, but don't have a lot yet
-aida cloth
-books, books, books
-kids storybooks
-kids toys for grandbabies
-I cut pictures out of magazines for inspiration and put them in notebooks, eventually, lol...storing in boxes for now
-scissors, rulers
-om goodness, my hubby is right. I am a packmouse :D shhh!

Ninnie

I collect all colors of cotton hand quilting threads, love using cotton to hand quilt, and small boxes, have a lot of these. also, betweens, I have some old ones, and love them. I hoard the best ones for special quilting. I also collect feed sacks, but only have a few. And quilting books and quilting magazines, I love the old ones. I have some quilting magazines from the 80's, I keep them organized in notebooks, and some quilting books from the 70'. That's about it. :D

pal

I did the same thing, Quiltncrazy. I also collect everything that everybody else on the board collects except the full size automobiles, the
pickle jars and the eye and mustache cups!!!!!! Nobody else has
mentioned collecting small flat rocks- like if you have a little mouse (which I collect) they look so cute sitting on a little flat rock looking up at you.....

And I thought I only collected fairy tale books. What a great thread this is!!!!!!

mcdaniel023

Most of my spending money goes to quilting supplies. But my downfall is, I love purses!!! Big ones, little ones, leather, fabric, it really doesn't matter. We just got back from a trip to Gatlinburg. All I bought was 20 fat quarters, 2 yards of beautiful fabric and one big brown leather purse. What a great trip.:lol: I have collected baskets, bears, Universal cattail pottery and jewel tea dishes. Still have them all, only I just add if I find something really special.