One Room Challenge - Week 2
Nothing makes the weeks fly by faster than a challenge. If you are returning from last week, thanks for coming back. If you are new here, you can start at the beginning of the One Room Challenge here.
Also, tomorrow is link up day for all of you playing along. There are over 70 of you!
This week was all about fabric. I know I have told you many times that I am obsessed with Meg Braff. I love this sofa so much....
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| Meg Braff via TPP |
I am having my love seats reupholstered to look just like it. You can read about that crazy story here.
Finding the perfect shades of blue was not going to be easy. I did a bit of running around on my own and got really frustrated. I enlisted the help of Jennifer, a woman that knows her shades of blue better than anyone else. She found them....of course.
The fabric is by a company called Outdura. It's an indoor-outdoor fabric. It is also hard to find. For that, I enlisted the help of my super fun and funny designer friend, Sherry. She was quite reassuring when she said she had never heard of this company. After a bit of research, her sources said six week delay!
Since that was not an option, I started an online hunt. Luckily for me, I found a place that had it in stock. Next up, was this fabulous stripe
Layer them together, and you have this
I really wanted a large scale floral. I fell in love with this Thibaut fabric.
Back to Sherry, man that woman must be sick of me...... but she came trough. Thanks Sherry! And when everything is together, you now have this
The final fabric is my custom Spoonflower fabric, and that is in the mail.
The love seats were picked up on Monday, and the floral was put in the mail to Leslie, my favorite pillow maker. That's it for me this week......
**Update, for week 3, go here**
Now let's go see how everyone else did
The fabric is by a company called Outdura. It's an indoor-outdoor fabric. It is also hard to find. For that, I enlisted the help of my super fun and funny designer friend, Sherry. She was quite reassuring when she said she had never heard of this company. After a bit of research, her sources said six week delay!
Since that was not an option, I started an online hunt. Luckily for me, I found a place that had it in stock. Next up, was this fabulous stripe
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| Available Here |
I really wanted a large scale floral. I fell in love with this Thibaut fabric.
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| Thibaut, Dorchester in Blue |
The love seats were picked up on Monday, and the floral was put in the mail to Leslie, my favorite pillow maker. That's it for me this week......
**Update, for week 3, go here**
Now let's go see how everyone else did
Custom Fabric on Spoonflower
Hi All! Did everyone have a great weekend? I have a feeling there was a lot of crazy room designing going on. Did you see how many people linked up to the One Room Challenge? I had no idea that many people wanted to jump in.
If you followed along during my last ORC, you may remember that Jennifer designed this fabric for my entry. When I needed a small graphic to complete my current fabric plan, I asked Jennifer for some ideas. She told me that many of the Spoonflower sellers will custom color their patterns for a small fee.
Enter Andrea from Domesticate
I fell in love with her Lattice in Ocean on the left.
This is a large scale graphic and I have a large scale floral in my plan. I contacted Andrea to see if she would work with me on this.
Andrea was an absolute delight to work with. I sent her my swatches so she could match the colors. I also asked her to scale it down and make the pale blue more prominent. Here is her final design.
She added a linen texture to the printing process. You can see it on the right. This fabric is available for purchase here. My fabric order is in the mail and I cannot wait to see it in person.
These are some of the other beautiful fabrics Andrea sells in her Spoonflower Store.
Isn't she good? I love finding new sources for fabric and custom coloring makes the possibilities endless.
What did you work on this weekend?