(soon to be retired)
Read/Post Comments (18)
Italian Tablecloth! (almost)
So here's the scoop, or should I say the big question...
The other day Friend Mary came by to visit. We had coffee, cake and chat. She brought me a gift of two tea towels because she had read in Nina's blog, The Other Side of the Ocean about how I was madly in love with the tablecloth she'd gotten in Limone, Italy, while she was there a few months ago. I could not find anything just like it online, and Mary thought these tea towels were pretty similar to Nina's.
That very afternoon, after she left, I went to the Crate and Barrel website and ordered two more, and now I plan to put them together to form a tablecloth for the breakfast/supper room (not the dining room as in these photos).
My question is, how should I do this?
1) Do I make four blocks with the four tea towels, like I've shown here in the photos? ...or
2) Do I buy four more of them, and make two complete tablecloths with just one pattern on each (i.e. 4 tea towels per tablecloth sewn together)? ...or
3) Do I cut these four tea towels up into smaller squares and make a real patchwork type of tablecloth out of them, like maybe 5-6" squares or whatever would work with the measurements I have?
They were not so expensive that I would hesitate to buy 4 more of them. With four more, I could have two complete cloths each with only one pattern, peppers or lemons/citrus.
I am taking suggestions here, so don't be shy.
Which will it be? Choice #1, Choice #2, or Choice #3?
Or... is there another way you can think of?
I'm all ears.
Cheers,
Bex
The other day Friend Mary came by to visit. We had coffee, cake and chat. She brought me a gift of two tea towels because she had read in Nina's blog, The Other Side of the Ocean about how I was madly in love with the tablecloth she'd gotten in Limone, Italy, while she was there a few months ago. I could not find anything just like it online, and Mary thought these tea towels were pretty similar to Nina's.
That very afternoon, after she left, I went to the Crate and Barrel website and ordered two more, and now I plan to put them together to form a tablecloth for the breakfast/supper room (not the dining room as in these photos).
My question is, how should I do this?
1) Do I make four blocks with the four tea towels, like I've shown here in the photos? ...or
2) Do I buy four more of them, and make two complete tablecloths with just one pattern on each (i.e. 4 tea towels per tablecloth sewn together)? ...or
3) Do I cut these four tea towels up into smaller squares and make a real patchwork type of tablecloth out of them, like maybe 5-6" squares or whatever would work with the measurements I have?
They were not so expensive that I would hesitate to buy 4 more of them. With four more, I could have two complete cloths each with only one pattern, peppers or lemons/citrus.
I am taking suggestions here, so don't be shy.
Which will it be? Choice #1, Choice #2, or Choice #3?
Or... is there another way you can think of?
I'm all ears.
Cheers,
Bex
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
"Our entry to it is naked and bare;
Our journey through it is trouble and care;
Our exit from it is who-knows-where;
So if we're all right here, we're all right there."
[Jack Rosenthal]
"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened."
[Anatole France]
"There are only two seasons - winter and baseball."
[Bill Veeck]
ORGANIC COCONUT OIL INFORMATION
2003 - 2007 Archives at Diaryland
2007 - 2009 Archives at WordPress
2009 Archives at JournalScape
2010 Archives at JournalScape
2011 Archives at JournalScape
2012 Archives at JournalScape
Read/Post Comments (18)
Previous Entry :: Next Entry
Back to Top
