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It’s definitely homemade.
It may not be vintage. That style of shirt has been popular in the indi sewing community for a while. I went looking and found similar indian head snaps for sale on Etsy.
To me, it has the look of someone’s sewing project that didn’t turn out the way they hoped. Based on the raw edges inside and how they are still relatively neat and tidy, I don’t even think it’s been washed – it definitely hasn’t been worn much, if at all.Seriously…
I’m working on getting the house back in order by listing the big death pile and tucking it away into inventory in the back bedrooms. Then I can just close the doors and have my neat, tidy home back. Until the next carload of stuff arrives.
It’s an older book but Material World – A global family portrait is really interesting.
They asked people to empty out their houses and put all of their belongings in the front yard for photographs.Discussions on minimalism and voluntary simplicity is actually what got me started selling on Ebay in the first place. I was trying to pare down my belongings and pay off my mortgage and Ebay seemed like the perfect fit. Little did I realize that a few years later I would be bringing carloads of stuff into my house…
I think you gave the right answer. The burn test is good when you are testing one large piece of fabric but not so good if you have lots of little pieces that you need to test.
I bought this amazing shirt the other day. The seller to a reasonable best offer and shipped the same day.
The “sandwich” of the quilt is the layers – front with the pretty design, batting inside to make it warm and give it that slightly puffy/puckery look when it is quilted, and the backing.
Her explanation on whole cloth quilts vs patchwork quilts is more for your edification. Any quilt with lots of little pieces sewn together to make the pretty design is technically called a patchwork quilt.
I wouldn’t use sandwich as a key word.
Definitely hand quilted. I can’t tell from the pictures if it was hand pieced – if the small pieces were sewn together by hand or a machine.
The way you can tell is if you carefully pull the green part, that’s already coming apart, further apart – hand stitching will only have one thread holding the pieces together while machine sewing will have two threads sandwiching the pieces together.I would use the key words hand quilted, hexagon, Grandmother’s flower garden. Research the term for a purposefully wavey/not straight edge – I bet it has a name but I can’t think of it.
I don’t know that it is intrinsically valuable but if you stage it right, and maybe include a story about how the fabrics were taken from won out clothes, you might be able to increase the sentimental value. (not that I’m encouraging you to lie…)
I don’t think I would add pattern weight to the title. 7 lbs seems like overkill for holding some paper down on fabric.
Thank you all for all of your advice. I am reading and taking it all in.
The photographer came by for the first time on Tuesday and I quickly realized it was not going to work out. She was told ahead of time that I would pay her per item and in the few hours that she was at my house, she only photographed 8 items. At least I wasn’t out a lot of money.
On the plus side, she brought her older special needs child (I agreed to that ahead of time) and the cats were all thrilled. One of my cats is very ill/dying and had a rough morning but positively basked in the attention all afternoon. The child told me that playing with the cats was the most fun she’d had in a while.
In the spirit of honoring the greater good, I have invited them back for more pictures and will plan to lower my expectations. The cats and kid can love on each other and the mom will probably only earn a few dollars but I think that will be ok for a while. I’ll just be on the lookout for a real photographer rather than a cat sitter.I’m pretty sure you can’t tell if there are best offers pending, as a buyer. You can only see if there are watchers.
I would wait it out. If you just listed it and you already have 4 offers, this means you have something good.
You all may have me convinced. I think I’ll start out with just the photographer taking pictures and me doing the listings. And from there decide if I want to hire out the listing process.
I also got to thinking, I inquired about the listing service before I bought my new computer. So maybe not having each page take minutes to load and pictures take minutes to load and not dealing with a constantly crashing computer that will cut down on the frustration significantly.
The reason I want to use the lister is because they will do the pricing for me. You may be right, I may decide that after this trial run that it’s just as much work to do it myself or I may decide that I am happy to take the loss in profit in order to have someone else do the work.
I’m trying to think about this long term – what can I do myself and what can I delegate in order to make this a sustainable job for me? Maybe I pay the photographer a little bit more and she does a whiteboard for me with measurements and flaws and I do the listings from that.
Here’s her video explaining how it works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLhSA7rJXsk&list=PLe5x7eIJ2uUUqMWURGlVodyL0ktENdfaz
Basically you take pictures of all your items. Put the edited pictures in a dropbox folder – 1 folder for each item. In each of those folders you include a picture of a whiteboard with all your information on it – measurements, flaws, weight, and custom label for inventory (if you use it).
They go into the dropbox and create the listing for you based on the pictures and the info on the whiteboard. When they are done, they move them to scheduled listings so that you can review and make live. Scheduled listings don’t cost anything so long as you click and manually make them live.I have my photographer starting tomorrow. We’re going to do a small batch of 20 items so that we can make sure we want to work together and test how I like the listing service.
The idea is that we will do pictures of ~50 items a day. It will take a few days for the listings to be completed but with new pictures being sent over every day, there will be a constant pipeline of listings to make live.
