My Fabric Dilemma

Good morning!

I am moving forward with the laundry room and looking at fabric.  I need fabric for my window, to cover my ironing board and to line the back of my hutch.  The colors I'm looking for are blue, grey and green.  I'm flexible on the green and if I found the right fabric, I can work with it.

So, I did find some fabric I love.  I saw Amy Butler's Daisy Chain collection and loved it right away. 

Here are the three I liked:

Sweet Jasmine-Grey



Happy Stripe- Grey


Dandelion Field- Silver


 I ordered all three and received them last week.  Do you see the words in the description that follow all three?  Grey and Silver?  They don't mean a thing when it comes to describing what the fabric actually looks like!  There's no grey.  No silver.  Its brown!  Or tan.  Or on a really good day with the right lighting, its taupe.  My husband even said it was green.  No one that I showed it to said grey though.  Looking online, the vast majority of the images show it as being grey, but there were a few that showed its true color.
Here is a picture I just took this morning:

  So, sadly, its not going to work and I am back to square one with the fabric.

Which brings me to the true dilemma.  The other stuff not working out isn't a big deal because I can sell it on ebay.  Its annoying, but I understand things like this happen when ordering online.  The problem is that I can't find anything I like!  I want grey and blue and maybe green or yellow and I can't find anything.  Everything I see has brown instead of grey in it. 

So, share with me, if you can, what is your favorite source online for fabric?  Have you seen any fabric like what I described?  I saw this at Marshall's last night after looking without success at every single style of fabric for the third time at JoAnn's and had to laugh.  It kind of spoke to me:

That's my newest challenge for today!  What are you working on?  Is it going smoothly?



 

Getting Crafty

Good morning everyone! 

I took a little break this past weekend from working on the laundry room and worked on a baby shower gift for a friend.  I always struggle with what to give someone who is having their second child and the sex is the same as the older sibling.  They already have all the big stuff and if the seasons match, clothes aren't that helpful either.  Usually I go the diaper route, with maybe an outfit as well thrown in there.  For this friend, though, she has been wisely stocking up on Amazon's awesome diaper sales and really didn't need those.

So, I decided to make some changing pads as part of the gift:

Don't you love the fabric?  Who says you can't be stylish while changing a diaper?

When my boys were little, my mom made me something kind of similar and I used them for changing diapers on my family room floor.  There was no way I was going to go upstairs to the changing table everytime I changed a diaper...I had two in diapers for a while and that just wouldn't have worked for me.  I also kept them in my diaper bag and  also used them as a mattress or sheet protector.  They got so much use around here!

I am not a skilled sewer at ALL, but these were so easy and a great project for someone just learning to sew.  I bought some soft flannel fabric from Joann's in patterns I liked and had some leftover blackout liner that I used as the waterproof pad.  The material really seems to repel water, so why not? 

Then, its just a matter of sewing all four sides together with the nice side facing in, leaving about a 6" opening.  Then I pulled the fabric through the opening so the nice side was facing up and sewed the opening shut with my machine.

I also took a little break to go through the cabinet where keep our medications and some first aid supplies.  It was so full that something fell out everytime I went in for something. 

Its started like this:

Looked like this during:



How did all this fit in that small cabinet?!  Expired meds are on the left.



And looked like this when I was finished:

Much better!  I love a little order!

Wish I could say the same for my basement.  The room where I am painting my cabinets and hutch looks like this:

And the laundry room still hasn't changed much and looks like this:

Lots of big changes coming up though!  The ceiling will be up and finished soon and the hutch will be completed in a few days. 

And finally, one of my all time favorite blogs, Just a Girl, featured my license plate mirror on her blog! I think my heart skipped a beat or two when I saw it. 

I think I will ride that high all week, thank you very much!

OK, I will be back next time with some laundry room PROGRESS!  Have a wonderful week!