Calico Corners on July 5th

Look at the beautiful fabrics I found at "Calico Corners"! I spent about four hours in there with Marge, who was very helpful and taught me a lot. She showed me how using different textures adds interest and is what makes a room look so good. She was very patient (as you can imagine she must be, for me to walk out of there with a big smile on my face.) So here is what I left with:

These first 2 pictures are soft suede like fabrics. But they are only to show wall colour ideas.

In this first one, the bottom 3 are options. But the second to the bottom came out more yellow, it's really a yellow-green:

These two are slightly different from those in the first photo (but it's hard to see here, it seems.)

Here are three views of the walls of bolts, that I got samples from:



We concentrated on the bedroom. I was going to do an old fashioned canopy but when I talked with Bret about it, we realized the bed we picked out wouldn't need one. (I'll show that in the next post, because I can't just insert pictures nor move them around after I download them which causes me a lot of grief...) okay, I love this floral (which I have also on the following photo) and the diamond pattern. The floral pattern really conjures up the feel I have in mind. Rustic fairytale. The diamond pattern echoes the window mullions that I LOVE. I don't know what I would do with it, maybe just make a pillow or a covered round table.


These would be bedskirt ideas, strong enough to go with the bedhangings but not compete. The bottom one on this photo:

And the second to last on this one, it's hard to see, give it a click for a close up (for that matter, give everything a click):

I love this as an alternative. I thought it might be too feminine, but Bret didn't think so. I love this sea foam.

Here it is again with coordinating fabrics, but I'm not so fond of those.

I paperclipped these cuttings onto a string to get a good view. These came off the bolt walls. I have no specific use in mind for them, but might use them for accents, like pillows.

This plaid is the same as above, but shows that it includes green.

The second one is another bedskirt idea: