My Fabric Line is Almost Ready!!!!!!!

Before I get to today's post about my fabric line.....

just a quick comment about some of the most recent comments to my blog.

Some of you guys got annoyed (angry, pissed off, offended, enraged, ......) because I dared to go off topic from decorating and voice an opinion.

WELL LADIES (and the occasional gentleman) 

This is a blog, not a magazine article.

It is my blog.

This is where I get to spout off.

For those of you who have been following my ramblings for some time, you know that once or twice a year I find something that really fries my goat, and I vent.

That's what blogs are for.

They are personal expressions.

If some of you don't like it, 

NO ONE IS MAKING YOU READ THIS.

There will be no test.

It' very simple, just don't read me.

I don't get paid for this.

I still do it because I have been asked to.

I started writing this after my last book deal was canceled due to the collapse of the decorating book publishing industry.

But since I started my fabric line, I am very

BUSY AGAIN!!!!!!!!!

Designing fabric is a full time job.

Plus I now am designing my own website!!!!!!!

This is because Traditional Home Magazine is featuring my fabrics in the February/March issue, and I realized I better have a website.

So now I am obsessed with designing the website.

It's really fun.

So if any of you are trying to make your own website, I am using the Square Space service.

I spent a couple of days watching YouTube tutorials and now I am just like a pro.

(sort of)

(not really)

The site should be up and running within the next month or year.

(see how I did that????)

(The year ends in 2 months!!!!!)

Sooooooooo

my fabrics!!!!!

We have FINALLY gotten the wings and waterfalls so we can hang them up at the Boston Design Center.

We have had all the samples shipped, so this week I will go into Boston and help attach my labels to all the samples.

After 3 1/2 years this project is going live ladies!!!!!

Here's a shot of my living room as we were figuring how to hang the samples in the showroom.

This room was like this for 6 months.

I used it as a reference as I designed the next collection.

Here's a close up of some of the fabrics.

This pattern is called Small Diamond Batik.

Because

 it is small

diamond shaped

and looks like batik......

I am very imaginative with my names.

It also comes in medium and large!!!!!

Because it is medium and large!!!!!

Don't get excited, but here it is in the medium size.....

I have worked on these fabrics in colorways so that they will work together.

I have been collaborating with a person in his early 40's, so was only allowed one cabbage rose pattern.

I love this bouquet.

It's called Gypsy Bouquet.

I have custom colored it for my living room and am doing it in a scale that is twice as large as the one shown.

My collaborator, who will remain anonymous (Josh) won't let me do it that way in the collection.

He say's it's "Old Lady Fabric".

What I said to him, can't be printed here.

On that note,

Latah, Gatah