I was digging around in my mom’s old sewing room (looking for a tape measure, if you must know, to measure my neck for a noose) when I found an old Tupperware container full of ribbons in my favorite colors when I was a kid — purple, pink, turquoise, lime green. And inside the box, in one of those old sandwich bags where you fold the top over to keep your sandwich extra stale, I discovered these patches. My mom was a crafty one and I spent hours of my childhood in fabric stores, begging her to buy me little bits of crap. Some of those patches were sewn on various clothing projects and then taken off when I grew out of them. Some were probably never used at all.
Ooh, I love the big blue flowers.
did you have a denim jacket with these on them (and embroidery too)? That was a big thing when I was a kid. I think my mom still has mine tucked away somewhere.
Nope, there were never on a denim jacket, unfortunately, I would have been one hip little kid if they had. BUT MAYBE IT’S NOT TOO LATE.
Jackson may need some of them there sewed onto the back pocket of his favorite pair of jeans.
I remember these. It was the 70s version of a Bedazzler.
those are cool~!
I would have FLIPPED over those, especially the butterfly.
It’s always weird to see things you used to treasure as a kid, as an adult. So what are you going to do with them now?
Will there be an ebay auction? Or rather, how much will you take for the purple daisies???
I am going to think long and hard about how to use these, I imagine it will probably involve denim. If I’m totally stumped and put them on eBay, you all will be the first to know.
The Butterfly is gorgeous!! I love finding things from the past. Makes you cherish it even more!!
I think a plain trench coat would look swell with one of these sewn on the wrist cuff, or maybe the collar. I like me some bright colors!
My grandma sewed all my clothes when I was little and every piece of clothing I owned had a patch of this sort attached. So awesome.