Random inspiration is random

[gwendolyngrey]

At the fabric store where I work, we have a section of pretty cheap "designer original" fabrics which rotate fairly quickly season by season and are often completely random.  Most of them are so ugly I'm convinced that these so called "designer" fabrics are all the left-overs and rejects from last year, but sometimes there are a couple gems that seemly appear out of nowhere.

For instance, tonight I found really pretty velvet... cream background with large, coral-ish pink scroll patterns all over and tiny little red-brown stripes running across the surface.  It's much nicer than it sounds.  (I also found a nice green linen for $2 a yard.  =) I couldn't possibly let a customer get their hands on it!  This, however, is beside the point.)

It, the velvet, would make a perfect robe (and I don't have one and can never find any I like, which makes a robe a perfect project), but all the robe patterns in the big three books were god-awful hideous monstrosities.

So.  I am going to make myself a banyan from the pretty, cream+pink velvet, and it will be fabulous and I will not be cold.

(I will, of course, not let myself seriously think about this until my show is over... only three weeks!)

Comments

[vanityfairy.livejournal.com]

A banyan would be such a fun project!

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

That will be made of fabulous wonderfulness. (And I'm familiar with what banyans are, but haven't the first idea how to make one. I'm assuming you do, which is exciting!)

[ktlovely.livejournal.com]

Dagnabbit. I should just go and order the Tyler/Mike matching fabrics, shouldn't I?

[idlewild-grey.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes you should... you know you WANT to anyway. Not that I would be wearing my banyan at the sort of event the boys would... the fabric isn't remotely period, just pretty. ;-)

[ktlovely.livejournal.com]

No, but you said "banyan" and it occurs to me that our lovely little utopia in which Mike is accessable and Tyler is...somewhat close to Michigan is drawing to a close. If I want this to happen, I need to do it now.

So I emailed about combining shipping. But I'll be ordering even if they don't.

And I've been making case notes all day and had to physically fight down the urge to initial this comment at the end, i.e. "Customer reports she will order fabric regardless of shipping charges. KJ"

[ktlovely.livejournal.com]

P.S. Go here (http://stores.ebay.com/Heritage-Trading_Fabric_W0QQcolZ2QQdirZQ2d1QQfsubZ5516169QQftidZ2QQtZkm) and look at their selection. I showed you the ones I originally liked, but I think I like the second and fourth ones from the top, too. (A (http://cgi.ebay.com/Hand-Printed-India-Cotton-Block-Print-Fabric-5-Yards_W0QQitemZ370157745925QQihZ024QQcategoryZ28162QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262) and B (http://cgi.ebay.com/Hand-Printed-India-Cotton-Block-Print-Fabric-5-Yards_W0QQitemZ400030545293QQihZ027QQcategoryZ28162QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262))

I feel like those two are a little less obnoxious.

[idlewild-grey.livejournal.com]

Do you not know about Katie's "Mike and Tyler need matching banyans" plans?

[ktlovely.livejournal.com]

I may have not mentioned it to anyone else besides Mike.