Fabric selections.

I recently had a very sweet woman come into my store. She and I got talking about interior design and custom sewing and the next thing you know I am at her house doing a design consultation.  She told me that she was kind of a gypsy at heart. She likes funky things, which seems fitting with her bubbly, outgoing personality. She basically gave me the freedom of using my creativity and boy did I have a good time at the fabric store.   

She wants to do a complete overhaul on the bedroom. We are talking curtains for four large windows, a slipcover for an ottoman and overstuffed chair, bed skirt, duvet and tons of pillows.  I started with a fabric that really caught my eye. It is dark chocolate brown and has a really fun and kind of wild floral design on it. There are beautiful greens, yellows and oranges in it as well.

From there I selected several other coordinating fabrics. I used my original find as the inspiration and drew the colors from that piece. I think it is really important when mixing fabrics to choose several different types of fabrics, textures and prints.

I chose a heavy weight chenille that has a chartreuse green background and a cream print on it, a rust colored silk, a dark chocolate brown and soft white fleur de lis pattern cotton, a golden yellow polyester fabric that has a gorgeous embroidered diamond pattern on it, a green stripe jacquard fabric and a solid green chenille. The combination includes several different textures and plays on the rich jewel tones in the inspiration fabric.   

I want to cover the chair and ottoman in the solid green chenille. The bottom of the chair and ottoman will be trimmed in a 7” multi color tassel fringe.

I plan to make the curtains out of the rust color silk and finish the edges with a funky, beaded, orange tassel fringe.  

I’m going to use the golden yellow fabric for the duvet and the striped green jacquard for the bed skirt.  The duvet will have a ruffle around the bottom edge out of the rust colored silk, my client LOVES ruffles!

I am soooooo excited to get started sewing on this project. I will be sure to share lots of photos of the finished room.