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Ziggurat, Ziggurat, Ziggurat

>> Friday, December 16, 2011

Yesterday I stepped back and realized that Schumacher's Ziggurat is showing up in several of my project piles. It works in modern spaces just as well as traditional spaces and my projects are an even split of both. I used it for the project below in chartreuse, but my new love is the navy colorway. Do you know what a ziggurat is? I thought it was just a fun name for a pattern with zig-zagging shapes. Nope, it goes back to the bible. I can now check my "learn something new" box off for the day. Have a great weekend!

I Guess Everything IS Better in Texas {diagonal stripes continued}

>> Monday, September 26, 2011

This weekend I did a little internet perusing to see if I could track down that diagonally striped fabric from the last post. I have yet to locate the larger scale, but I did find this little pattern via the Best Little Fabric Store in Texas. They do not put scales on their photos, but I'm thinking this is on the small to medium side.

And then I got a little more creative with my searching and found diagonally striped fabric tape in this cute little Etsy shop, that also happens to come out of the state of Texas.

She also sells black and white twine, which if you think about it, is a teensy tiny diagonal stripe.

Another thought I had was if you wanted to do add a diagonal stripe as a trim down one side of a curtain panel, kind of like this...

You could cut strips out of a couple yards of chevron patterned fabric and fold them in half. It would create such nice detail to have the stripe going one way on the side of the panel and then on the back side, have it go the opposite way.

But speaking of Texas, anyone else want to be Tami Taylor when they grow up? or at least harness some of her wise parenting skills? Mr. Sabbe and I have been burning through some Friday Night Lights via Netflixs. We never watched the show when it was on tv, but now we are obsessed. A couple of weeks ago I heard him tell our baby "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts...CAN sleep through the night"

He totally wants to be Coach Eric Taylor.

Texas Forever

{insert Tim Riggins' southern, with a dash of Canadian (mainly when he says the word college), accent}

Best Fabric Store in Boston

>> Friday, September 24, 2010

Well, technically it's not in Boston. It's in Arlington. But close enough. They have both sewing and home decor fabrics. I was most impressed with the sewing/quilting fabrics. They are the only shop I've seen in this area that carries my fave, Amy Butler. Fabric Corner. There is a coupon on their website. Does this first photo make anyone else's heart skip a beat?

Have a great weekend!

Three Cups of Tea

>> Sunday, May 16, 2010

I am in the front row, upper deck of the Megabus right now, headed to NYC for the ICFF. I can't decide if my seat of choice is exciting or terrifying. This is my 5th trip on the ole' Megabus and I just have to say, for $9 and unlimited WiFi...you cannot beat it.

I just finished Three Cups of Tea and wanted to share with you what an amazing book I found it to be. I will admit, I have been reading this book off and on for a year. The first 100 pages were not quite gripping for me. But once I got into the meat of the book, I could not put it down. Greg's Mortenson's life was saved by a Balti porter after nearly freezing to death during an unsuccessful attempt to summit K2. After recovering in their village, and being catered to in a way that most locals had never experienced, Greg promised to return the following year and bring with him the means to provide something that the Balti people had never had...a school. That one school, turned into hundreds,which are now lead by the Central Asia Institute. Greg is a truly inspiring individual.

Along with the schools, the Central Asia Institute has also established several Women's Vocational Centers, where women in remote villages can gather to sew and chat. Sounds like my kind of place right? And I know all of you design lovers out there have seen a lot of this lately...

The women in these villages weave ikat and you will see on the Centrail Asia Institute website that this fabric, which is high on the trend radar here in the States, has come to symbolize strength, beauty, and resilience of the Central Asia communities they serve. I will never look at ikat the same.

I may have a guest blogger or two lined up this week while I am busy bathing myself in modern furniture, stay tuned!

and p.s. this is super last minute, obvioulsy, but if any nyc blogger friends would be interested in meeting for dinner tuesday night, shoot me an email: stephanie.sabbe (at) gmail.com

Fabric Steals

>> Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Mr. Sabbe is trying to make me watch a documentary on the Smokey Mountains. I am pretending to watch while I swoon over these great deals {multi-tasking}...