Faffing with Fabric

We have been faffing with fabric for a couple of weeks now while dreaming of the new house, we have ordered a few samples and are still waiting for some but we have already fallen in love with a couple of them. We ordered swatches and searched around for the best prices of what we liked and that is how we stumbled upon threadandloop.co.uk which is where we intend to do most of our ordering from as they seem to hold all the fabrics we had fallen in love with from across the internet!

So on with some pictures, I have included close ups and full shots. Full shots are from google and iliv, close ups are from threadandloop.co.uk and please remember that these are just the ones we like so far. We have more samples on their way to us as we speak!

This fabric caught our eye as it is fun and colourful, without being a whole block of colour which can be a bit much. We plan to use this for curtains and then feature the colours in other places through out our sons room.

This fabric is only £8 per metre and is 140cm wide.

It may not look it, but this is actually a PVC/Oilcloth type fabric. We knew we wanted polka dots and so I spent hours searching (I honestly started to see spots) and just as I was giving up hope I discovered the "Great Spots" range. And right there was Lime/Kiwi and it was perfect. Fun fact: Hubby dislikes green and swore he would never have it in the house (despite owning green things like clothes). yet he took one look at this and fell in love with it.

This is £10 per metre and is 133cm wide. 

As I am sure you have realised by now we are a fan of cottagey things. I grew up in a quiet country village and so those cottagey things make me feel safe and secure. They make our house our home. And so we knew we wanted a patchwork style duvet cover and we couldn't find anything we liked, until we were looking at fabric and saw this. Funnily enough I saw it and thought I would show Hubby, he saw it and ordered a sample because he knew it was perfect. Reminds me why I married him ;)

This gorgeous fabric is only £8 and is 140cm wide (so a little too thin for a duvet cover, but we will add a border and that will resolve that issue).

And we plan to use this adorable fabric for some cushion covers, probably for the front room. We have some huge comfy cushions that are big enough for floor cushions and right now the covers aren't our thing. But they have sentimental value as they are the same cushions and covers I had for sofa/floor cushions in my childhood home so having them in our new home is really exciting. The covers will be carefully stored away in the attic and we will sew these new ones to make it a little more us.

This fabric is £8 per metre and is 142cm wide.

We will be faffing with more fabric over time, but these are all we have picked out of our current samples. We have more on their way to us as we speak.