Caroline was looking for the perfect combination of pattern, stripe and plain for her Slipper chair's front, back & piping, and I was looking for some plain cornflower blue to match the Amy Butler Temple Doors, to use as piping... and also some aqua to go with the Joel Dewberry for the sprung footstool. That's why I walked away with 30 metres of powder blue cotton damask, at only $10/metre.
And why, I hear you ask, do you want 30 metres of curtain material, when you're supposed to be buying fabric for a fracking chair??? Many years ago, when Mr Golightly and I first moved into this house, my lovely Ma and I went to a [much missed] shop called Hart St Fabric House, and bought metres of beautiful camel coloured cotton damask, in a very subtle print, which she made into curtains to hang in the guest bedroom. They look fabulous, classic, subtle, expensive (but they werent'!). So, I could barely believe my eyes when I spotted the very same pattern, but in a blue!
Gentle Readers, the back of our house faces north, which is, of course, ideal in the Southern Hemisphere. We get lots of lovely warm sun in the winter, and good shade in the summer because of the angle of the trees in the back yard. But at night, when the sun is gone (oh dear, did I just say that?), it gets cold. All that glass, you see. So, we have curtains. Lined curtains at that, which I made, this time.
I confess that I bought the original living room curtain material in Spotlight, after spending more quality fabric porn time with Miss Cathy at KA International. I had found my dream fabric there for the living room curtains, but it was $178/metre. Ouch. Given that we need about 24 metres, it was going to be mega-expensive. So I bought this other stuff instead, cheap, from that store whose name starts with S and ends in ...light, and I have always regretted it. It's the colour of cocoa, with a tiny little woven blue square in it. Even with the lining, all you see is the lines of the blue weaving, so it looks like a horizontal stripe. Icky. Also, I didn't buy enough, and the curtains are not wide enough. Curtains need to be at least three times the width of the window to look any good. Having two drops just doesn't cut it.
Note: not my house!
Anyway, I squealed like a girl when I saw this powder blue Damask, and the nice lady gave it to me for $10/metre. There's enough to make the curtains, nicely full, and have some over for cushions or whatever. Which is just as well, because I think I'm going to have to sell off some of the more expensive soft furnishings in the house to cover it.
Anyway, it's 10.37pm now, I've been up since 4.15am (the coughing thing again, don't ask), and I'm pooped. Off to bed, hopefully to sleep through until 5.30am, when I get up and do it all again. I've got pics, tomorrow, of the progress on the chair, too, so stay tuned. Same bat time, same bat channel. (How old does that make me????)
Ciao!
