Wheat is a classic vintage design. As I shared in a previous post, wheat is the symbol for prosperity, love, home and hearth, harvest, spring, birth and hope, making it the perfect pattern for America’s favorite family holiday, Thanksgiving. As a special request from Jami, here is a Thanksgiving tablescape featuring vintage wheat patterns, amber glassware. linens and silverware from Southern Vintage Table!

Pinecones with tags and twine become place names for guests and leaves collected from the woods are nature doilies on the vintage lace tablecloth. (The tags are a free download from the website, Love vs Design.)  I also tied the corners of the rectangle lace table cloth with twine – saw this trick at the state fair table setting competition!

The centerpiece is a tower made from an antique sieve with a wooden distressed cake plate turned upside down. The final piece is an antique spool once used in clothing factories with an arrangement of dried flowers in the center hole.  A burlap ribbon (see directions at the end of the post for how to cut a straight line in burlap).  Pine cones, leaves and nuts complete the natural centerpiece arrangement.

For practically all my life Thanksgiving has been spent with my extended family on my mother’s side.  We all bring our favorite dishes and sit down to a great Southern meal – turkey, ham, dressing with gravy, deviled eggs, mashed potatoes, collards, chicken & dumplings, potato salad, field peas – and amazing desserts such as carrot cake, chocolate pie, pecan pie and chocolate eclair cake. After our feast, the older folks linger at the tables and catch up on family news and the younger crew heads outside for the classic Turkey football matchup.  I’m now part of that older crowd but I do remember some great football games when I was younger!

This year, with the help of my sisters, I am setting the table with plates from the vintage stoneware collection from Southern Vintage Table for our annual Bass/Heath/Roberson family reunion. I’ll be sharing photos in an upcoming blog!

May your Thanksgiving be filled with love and joy with family and friends!

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—— How to Cut a Straight Line in Burlap ——

1.  Pull a string from the loosely woven fabric.

2.  Cut along the line!