Last Saturday, Jeff walked into the kitchen as I was making breakfast and said, “It’s too hot to do anything outside, but I don’t want to sit around the house all day.  Let’s go somewhere. Let’s check out some antique stores you’ve never been to.”  Now, I rarely sit around the house all day, so I already had plans of painting and working on this and that.  But, Jeff also rarely suggests going to antique stores, so even though I was mentally geared up for a day at home, I agreed to the proposed outing.  We went to Cumberland, MD, which is a beautiful area but practically the entire downtown area was a construction zone, so many of the stores we would’ve visited were temporarily closed or it was just too hot to do a lot of exploring on foot.  Fortunately, we had stopped in Hancock, MD first to check

As I’ve been sharing our living room makeover over the past few weeks, several people have asked about the blanket over the back of the sofa.  Even though it sometimes annoys my family, I’ve always liked having a quilt, coverlet, or throw folded over the back of sofas and chairs.  Not only does it add a bit of color and give me another place to display some of my favorite antique textiles, but it helps extend the life of the piece of furniture (or the slipcover between washings.)  The blanket on the back of our living room sofa is sadly not something that I can simply link to.  It’s an antique overshot coverlet from the mid-1800s.  But, since you may have never heard of any overshot coverlets, let me tell you a bit about them, share some tips on where to buy them (and how much to pay), and give