Pineapple doilies, hand-knit potholders & china dolls in period dress...
Visit Shop 27, where vintage crochet, linens, and hand-knit work fill the shelves alongside household antiques. A long wooden shelf carries a row of hand-knit potholders and dishcloths in cobalt blue, purple, red, green, and striped multicolor. Crocheted doilies in yellow, coral, teal, and cream edge the shelves around them. Pineapple crochet repeats across the space, including a large cream pineapple doily set out on the steamer trunk. Lace table runners sit under amber pressed glass cups, saucers, and bowls in a sandwich style floral pattern. A honey glazed pineapple canister set with three matching mugs shares that shelf with the knit goods.
The vintage crochet, linens, and needlework carry over to the pegboard wall, where an owl stitched in blue and pink is mounted on a whitewashed board. A gilt framed classical portrait print hangs above a framed stag print in a mountain setting. A purple pansy chintz plate sits on a brass hanger beside a black wooden letter P. Below the wall, a vanity bench in floral tapestry holds pillows printed with sheet music, and a patchwork quilt drapes one corner. A dome top steamer trunk in wood slats and iron bands sits beside it, next to a scroll cut wooden terrier painted white.
Additional finds include three shelves of vintage hardcovers, among them a 1972 Scott United States stamp catalogue and a Pacific Northwest Indian wars history. A Tarzan hardcover by Edgar Rice Burroughs sits with them. An oak bookcase holds a sawtooth cut glass bowl, crystal cordial glasses, a white porcelain floral coffee pot, and a wooden hourglass. A china head doll with molded black hair sits with a blonde porcelain doll in lavender satin and a baby doll in a hand crocheted bonnet. A boxed set of Aunt Martha's hot iron transfers sits near a lidded sewing basket, tying the vintage crochet, linens, and stitchery to the tools that made them. Scale runs from single doilies up to the trunk, the vanity bench, and a white painted high chair. A Clover Park School District registration bulletin from 1971 dates one corner of the space precisely. Browse the vintage cookbooks and paper ephemera in Shop 36 and the country home decor at Shop 331 for related finds.
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The whole space in one frame: a row of hand-knit potholders, a honey glazed pineapple canister set, crocheted doilies, a dome top steamer trunk, and a framed stag print on the pegboard. 
Three dolls together on lighted shelves: a china head with molded black hair, a blonde porcelain doll in lavender satin, and a baby doll wearing a hand crocheted bonnet and sweater set. 
Hand-knit potholders and dishcloths in cobalt, purple, and multicolor stripes share a shelf with a honey glazed pineapple canister set, a rooster decorated platter, and blue enamel serving spoons. 
Amber pressed glass in a sandwich style floral pattern, set out on white crochet lace, with a brass cuspidor tucked on the shelf below the heart cutout table. 
A boxed set of Aunt Martha's hot iron transfers turned up on the same shelf as three blue glass elephants, a jukebox shaped Elvis Presley tin, an amber glass owl cookie jar, and a cast iron sad iron. 
Framed prints run from a gilt classical portrait to a mountain stag, with a needlepoint owl on whitewashed board, a purple pansy chintz plate, and a black wooden letter P filling the pegboard between them. 
A cream pineapple crochet doily and a 1971 Clover Park School District registration bulletin sit on a dome top steamer trunk, under a vanity bench in floral needlepoint stacked with a patchwork quilt. 
Mid-century hardcovers by the shelf, from Green Mansions and Surgeon's Choice to a 1972 Scott United States stamp catalogue, Walt Disney's Annette, and Jean M. Auel's The Plains of Passage. 
Cut crystal cordials and a sawtooth bowl sit a shelf below a white porcelain robed figure, a crystal dolphin, and a wooden hourglass, with lidded beer steins lined up across the top. 
A white painted high chair holds a blonde curled hard plastic doll and a sequin penguin, with a rush seat ladder back chair alongside and amber pressed glass cups and saucers on crochet lace at the right.