Alexa Lett - artsy designs

Bojo jeans embellished with a simple quilt block.
These one-of-a-kind upcycled jeans got a glow-up with a pieced vintage quilt block, giving them new life.

No fast fashion here—just slow fashion, sustainable style, folk art, and a fun way to make unique jeans.

✨ Perfect for antique lovers, quilt collectors, textile enthusiasts, vintage fashion fans, and anyone who believes clothing should be as interesting as the person wearing it. And it uses a little of your scrap fabric hoard.

👇 Tell me: Are you Team Vintage Quilt or Team Classic Denim?

Quilt Block Embellishment
Some times it takes others to inspire what you make. made this on to a t-shirt and it was adorable. I had some jeans and thought they might be best served with some quilt styled embellishment. I would highly recommend giving her a follow. She is clever. Plus, how many plain pair of jeans can one have? Tomorrow we will show the completed project. They are cute!

When vintage quilts tell new stories.

This one-of-a-kind textile art piece began with fragments of vintage quilts and treasured fabric scraps, then found its second life through appliqué, hand stitching, and a little imagination. A whimsical blue chair with a vase of blooms feels right at home among the colorful strips of patchwork history stitched beneath it.

I love rescuing forgotten textiles and giving them a second life. Every faded print, worn seam, and vintage fabric scrap carries a story, making each piece of fiber art completely unique.

✨ Follow for more vintage quilt art, textile inspiration, slow stitching, appliqué, folk art, and creative reuse projects.

Needlework History
A piece of needlework history from 1929. 🧵✨ I recently found this on a trip to Ft. Worth. Besides the incredible workmanship….the notation written on the back was also a powerful buying factor. Just one more lovely piece to add to my collection.

This beautiful handmade textile art was created as a gift for a young man to hang in the home he would one day share with his future wife. Nearly 100 years later, the craftsmanship, patience, and artistry still speak for themselves.

I’m endlessly fascinated by antique needlework, vintage embroidery, crewel work, hand stitched textiles, and the stories woven into every stitch. The time, skill, and creativity behind these heirloom pieces deserve to be preserved and appreciated as true fiber art.

Whether it’s crewel embroidery, hand embroidery, needlepoint, cross stitch, or folk textile art — I collect it all because every handmade piece carries history, tradition, and the hand of the maker.

Imagine the hours spent selecting threads, planning patterns, and stitching this by hand in 1929… long before fast fashion and machine-made decor. This is slow art at its finest.

Vintage needlework collectors — what do you think this piece is? Crewel? Embroidery? A combination of both?

If you love antique textiles, fiber arts, embroidery history, vintage home decor, handmade craftsmanship, or preserving old art forms, follow along. I’m always sharing unique finds, antique treasures, and needlework inspiration. 🪡

Vintage Photo
Vintage portrait: 100 years old.
Advice: still painfully current.
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My Art Studio!
Breaking news: My art studio has been cleaned and organized. I repeat…organized. Supplies are in their places, unfinished projects are behaving themselves, and the walls are still bursting with color and ideas.

For this brief, magical window of time, it looks less like creative chaos and more like I have my life together.

Give it 48 hours.

Chattanooga Antiques
Check out the Spring Flea on Saturday first……we are having a 20% off sale! Then headed to the booth on Monday will be this and more.

A hat with stories, a butter dish that survived every diet trend since 1952, cookbooks from the era when “salad” involved gelatin, chalkware with just enough charm and sass, berry bowls prettier than the berries, and a wood carving that absolutely deserves to be discussed like fine art.

Basically… if your grandmother, an estate sale, and a treasure hunt had a baby.

Come dig around before someone else claims the good weird stuff first.

Antiques Find A Home!
As an avid junker…. I often wonder who purchases what I like and where it goes. I loved this little chair (almost kept it). Its span in my booth was short….where did it go? As of last night I learned it landed in a friend’s house. She shared with me its new home. The old worn out, perfectly crusty child’s chair is living the life. Styled perfectly in her home.

The beauty of buying antiques…..built in character. Continue the legacy someone started years ago! Thank you Robin! It looks so great….I want it back (just kidding🤭)