One of the things that people find difficult to understand is the different prices they see for what they think is the same fabric. The feeling seems to be if you see a fabric at a big box store for one price, other fabric stores should be charging the same price.
Well, this month is odd… every date will begin with 11 and end with it: today being 11/6/11! There was a hard frost last night. This morning was windless, with large leaves drifting off of the trees.
What is home decorating fabric?
On its simplest level home decorating fabric is any fabric used in the home for decorating it. But today’s home decorating fabric has very specific properties.
It is hard to believe the last week of October is here. But, it is. This fall was a very strange one in Maine.
When two people run two businesses out of a home, each person tends to wear more than one hat- or several for each business. And that is the case at Brick House Fabrics. Whether dealing with fabric or other things, we both pitch in. Thus it was that we ended up in New York State last weekend.
Well, it snowed! We awoke to 1″ of messy, wet snow. The old leaves were poking through it. One of the earliest snow falls on record…
THURSDAY- October 20, 2011
It is finally really fall in Maine. We had an extraordinary run of beautiful fall weather. No one remembers a warmer fall, but it has definitely come to an end!
The last week just got away from me.. we had to be away on business, and then other things just happened… my apologies!
We got the last of the pictures from Pumpkin Fest up in Sewing Notions, Maine Musings. The pumpkins did not last as long as they normally do, due to the warm weather… but I doubt if anyone is complaining!
More of the fabric that we are importing has come in… enough to start listing it. We will be getting things up and on tomorrow! There is a Paris, Eiffel tower fabric, other French fabrics were ordered, but are not in yet… hopefully sooon! But, quite a few of the shell fabrics are in, and they are spectacular… there are sea fans, corals, shells, seahorses, and one I call Atlantis! There are also three bird prints… think Audubon. They are on a heavy textured linen fabric that is fabulous. We are missing some ocean toile fabrics, and some nautical fabrics, that we hope show up before long… So, keep checking, as we will keep updating them here.
Now that the fair season has wound down we will be getting information about fabrics going for those that want to know more about the history of specific fabric groups… toiles, ikat, paisley, etc. And also information on home decorating fabric in general will be available… the ins and outs of the fabric business, as we see it.
Pictures of the business trip to New York will be up soon, we had to be in Hudson and Albany. The weather was warm, and it was the last of it… we are supposed to get five days of rain! Gardens and farmer’s markets are ending for the year.
SATURDAY- October 22,2011
JUST LISTED:
An Eiffel Tower Fabric.
This is unique:
landmarks of Paris, France
in a modern, retro, with a vintage look.
The EIFFEL TOWER PARIS, FRANCE FABRIC
A French toile fabric with a twist!
The Eiffel Tower Fabric
can be found in the
France Italy fabric category.
The background fabric can be found in the
Upholstery fabric category.
We will be adding the new fabrics daily over the next few weeks.. there are 27 new patterns, many of which are not carried by anyone else in the USA. Some of the patterns are on back order with the company, and will not be coming in until December. But, we do have the majority of them here.
NEARLY GONE:
There are only 2 1/2 yards of the Aqua Coral tree fabric left.
This has been discontinued. When it is gone, it is gone.
AQUA CORAL TREE UPHOLSTERY FABRIC
There is a small amount of the companion fabric left-
a coral seashell stripe.
They can both be found in the
Coral Fabric category
This week the best selling fabric was the ikat fabric in the new denim blue. The embroidered dragonflies came in second. The colors that sold the most collectively were neutrals, soft taupe, green, and pale pink with greys.
On its simplest level home decorating fabric would be any fabric used in the home. That could be a tea towel hung as a curtain, or a piece of feedsack. But today’s home decorating fabric has very specific properties.
SUNDAY- October 9, 2011
This weekend has been truthfully amazing, weather wise… no one we know remembers a weather this warm, this late. Usually at this time of year one is battling the last of the out door chores in winter clothes, not sealing up doors and windows in nearly 80 degree F. temperatures!
When fall comes around everyone thinks of things like cooler nights, colored leaves, and pumpkins. But here in mid-coast Maine one also begins to see signs of Pumpkin Fest! The festival is 5 years old this year, and is dedicated to the growing of LARGE pumpkins… the Atlantic Giant and others.