A Little Liberty Fix

 I was tempted to make a bad old man joke with the title and call this post,
"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death," and then decided to stop being such a total cheese-mobile, sigh...

When it came to gathering up materials for my upcoming show, I knew it was the opportunity I'd been looking for to pick up some of the Liberty of London tana lawn I'd been pining for. It's going to make some gorgeous pillows (a few of which will end up in the shop after the show so everyone can enjoy!) and fits in with the look I'm going for just right. I can't believe the prices on this stuff so I ended up just getting a mini rainbow bundle from Purl Soho (and definitely planning on stashing some of the leftovers for my own projects...this job's gotta have some other perk apart from working in one's pajamas after all, ya?).

all bundled up

I was not at all disappointed by the quality of this fabric—both the feel of the fabric and the look of the prints makes it some of the most luxurious that I've come across and I can see now why I'd want to roll around in yards of it it's so coveted. The prints that I thought were just so-so in the pictures, I've ended up really liking in person and the prints that I thought I'd like in the pictures, I've ended up loving in person which is such a nice surprise when going through a bundle of several prints from one line. I had never been able to feel tana lawn in person before this either and I would compare it to the delicate softness of voile but with slightly more of a structured drape. If voile is like handling butter, then this tana cotton lawn is like handling refrigerated butter. But not margarine, cuz that would kinda be a drag.

I'm off to go take the scissors to this stuff (the greek chorus standing in the wings just shrieked, i know) and buckle down for my last weekend of work before the show, eeks! I hope each and every one of you has a fabulous holiday weekend with lots of good weather and relaxing and I'll see you back here next week with a brand spankin' new embroidery pattern for you to maul.