New Dishes - A Basketweave Bargain!

Basketweave-patterned china,
in unadulterated white or cream . . . .

Classic. Elegant. Kind of ubiquitous, but with good reason.

It's lovely, in all its forms, and is one of my favorites.

You can't swing a cat in a china shop without hitting some

manufacturer's variation on the basketweave border,
from Wedgwood's Nantucket Basket:

To Aynsley's Basketweave:

To the one from Pillivuyt, sold by Williams-Sonoma.

Can anyone pronounce Pillivuyt?  I would just point and grunt.

Three years ago, there was even a Dollar Tree

version, which looked pretty darned good.

If I do say so myself.

Here it is, on my dining room table, on July 9, 2009.

All ready for lunch, and tablesetting pictures.

I bought 8 plates, and have been using them nearly every day as our go-to dishes

for family meals.  They are so simple and plain, and I just don't get tired of them.

But . . . just like me . . . they are getting older and a few lines are beginning to show.

In other words, 3 years' worth of steak knives and pointy fork tines have 

brought out a whole lotta grayish scratch marks on the surface of these plates.

My beloved $1 apiece dinner plates need to be retired.

Oh, woe is me!

:-(

Ta-da! Enter the Christmas Tree Shops.

No, really.  I entered our local Christmas Tree Shops store

the other day, and guess what is piled up there?

If you guessed Basketweave China plates, you win.

But wait, there's more!

Those are not my hands, as this is not my photograph.
It belongs to Deanna of Creekside Cottage blog, who graciously let me use it.
You can find her story of basketweave passion at her blog, here.

These dinner plates are Pfaltzgraff brand Basketweave,

in creamy white, for $1.69 a dinner plate.

I am in the mood for celebrating today.

Yesterday I got the stitches out of my arm, and got the very welcome news

that there is no longer any melanoma bivouacked there.  

Don't you think this calls for fresh new basketweave dinner plates in the kitchen cupboards?

I think I'm-a-gonna take me a trip.  Rockaway Mall, here I come.

Maybe after lunch.

I still like this July 2009 tablescape, with it's Dollar Tree Plates, paired with

Dollar Tree linen towels as placemats, vintage napkins, Lenox wineglasses for the iced tea,

ca. 1912 flatware, TJ Maxx soup bowls, and Wedgwood bread plates.

(Link here.)

So, I'm recycling it.

'Cause I gotta go buy me some dishes!

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Disclaimer:  I have never actually swung a cat in a china shop.
Really.  Never.  -- Cass

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