Can I wear drapery fabric as a skirt? What are the rules on that? Can only Scarlet O’Hara and the kids in The Sound of Music pull that off?
I bought this fabric a year or two ago and covered a rescued piano bench top with it. The piano bench was awful – black chipped paint and disGUSting fabric. (no “before” pictures, so you’ll have to trust me on the disgustingness) I sprayed the legs and stapled the new fabric on it, and now it sits proudly in our kitchen.
(it’s also the fabric I have as my header up there — its from the Laurie Smith collection )
So I was at Hancock Fabrics today and all their Laurie Smith (the least offensive Trading Spaces decorator) line of fabrics were on sale for $3.99 a yard. I’m pretty sure I bought it originally for $14-$15 ish. There are tons of really cute prints and I am totally salivating. I carted around a bolt of my bench print for a while. It was the same print but had an eggplant color in it instead of the greenish color. A beautiful eggplant. An eggplant color that just happens to be the exact same shade of eggplant as a shirt that I have hanging in the closet. A lone eggplant shirt with nothing to match it. Until now!
But it is drapery fabric. Or upholstery. Or something that is not “clothing and apparel” fabric. So I put it back. But I keep thinking about it. My original bench print (and its eggplant hued cousin) and several others are swirling in my head. Can I do it? Is that weird?
Q: how many times can I use the word eggplant in a post?
A: apparently 6 times
4 Comments
March 15, 2007 at 11:04 pm
if you made the skirt it might hang funny simply because of the weight.
March 16, 2007 at 8:55 am
cute bench and cover.
not sure about using that fabric for clothing. i guess it depends how it hangs and holds its shape. also, it might not be very washable.
March 16, 2007 at 10:09 am
I agree, it depends on the weight and drape, but, to give you hope, I have a dress made from Home Deco. fabric. It’s a sheer though, with a lining underneath. My mom wants living room curtains made out of it, too and threatened to make them while I was still single living at home. How embarrassing would that be to be picked up by a date and him not notice me cuz I’m standing by the curtains, blending in.
March 22, 2007 at 9:28 am
I forgot to come back and tell you that you ought to make a bag out of the fabric and then you can carry/use it everyday!
Amy Butler has some uber hip bag patterns- just google her.