carolynjo

My mother's and my grandmother's collections of buttons in an old, old fruitcake tin. My grandchildren loved playing with the buttons on the stairs to the basement sewing room.

GrammaTerry

I've really enjoyed reading everyones' posts. I treasure my Mom's magnetic pin holder with her name written on the bottom in her handwriting. I bought one just like it to keep on the ironing board while hers sits next to my sewing machine. And of course I have her buttons...the grands love her buttons. I also have her crochet hooks in an old alka seltzer bottle. Such fun!

Tartan

I have this cute little set of 4 wooden drawers that came from my deceased FIL. I think they are 2 set of drawers maybe from an old treadle sewing machine desk? I can't feel bad about them being cut off as this is how I got them. [ATTACH=CONFIG]555666[/ATTACH]

RugosaB

I remember when my husband and I were at an auction and we bid on a box - because I knew this was inside. My husband works with wood a lot and we knew the work involved to make this. He thought it was worth what we paid for the box - $.50!
I never darn socks, it just sits looking pretty.

quiltingshorttimer

Over the years, my Mom gave us each several keepsakes---including a tin box with wooden spools of thread--I will never use the thread because they were from her Mom and her. And a set of wood bookends that my dad made in a shop class--they used them in their bookcase headboard all during my childhood. And my Mom's original box camera from her teens. And I carry a spool of blue thread of hers that when she died at my sister's house, I went to secure her house and get the papers and any valuables--when I picked up the sewing box out of the back end of my car, this spool rolled out--it's traveled with me everywhere for the last 4 years (my sister had dibs the sewing box, I got the machine).

cashs_mom

I have my mom's sewing box and button box, my grandmother's sewing stand, treadle sewing machine and her embroidery floss basket. Oh, and my mom's 301 that I learned to sew on. I might have some other stuff of theirs in my sewing room, I'd have to go look. lol

Anne P

I have the big coffee mug the says, "Grandma" that my kids gave my mother. It hold pens, pencils, marking tools and other tall notions.

ILoveToQuilt

I have my Nana's button tin still full of buttons. Numerous tomato pin cushions, thimbles, needle cards (one or two from Woolworth's at 19 cents for the entire card of needles!) and an ashtray from the Fountainbleu Hotel in Miami Beach. Long story short: I am adopted and my adopted folks lived in Miami for a while and ate at that hotel often. Fast forward to 2001 - I found my birth family and it turned out my birthdad was the chef at the Fountainbleu back when my folks used to eat there! Small world. I cherish all these treasures.

Other things: my Mom's Featherweight, my former GMIL's knitting needles, my Mom's crochet hooks and unfinished tattings, some fabric from the early 1960's that my uncle gave me (he was a pattern maker in the garment center in NYC). Probably more stuff but I can't think of anymore right now.

Great thread!

GailG

I have many items repurposed in my sewing room. I've got sewing items as well as other items inherited from deceased sewers in my family. I've got my godmother's hem marker -- remember the little ruler attached to a metal stand that has a gadget to run a pin for marking the hem -- a yardstick,and a tape measure. Unfortunately the tape measure was "run over" by my rotary cutter and cut in half. ;o(. I also have my grandmother's button canister, and a lot of various items which are all black. For the year of my 50th birthday, my secret pal at work, gave me many things that were all black. She was a sewist and also a baker -- both of which we had in common. I've go black bowls, baskets, candy dish, etc. She kept up this charade for the whole nine months of school.

QuiltnLady1

I have a large shelf unit that Dad built for his collections -- I now use it for fabric and love it. I have the hook thingy that my Mom used to darn my nylons, and all of Grandma's crochet hooks. I have my Mom's nursing scissors (curved tip, bandage scissors), buttons and an old chest that used to be in my bedroom as a child. I also have an embroidered pin cushion that my Mom made when she was on night duty. I smile every time I look at them.