Yes, two posts today because it's Fab Fabric Friday

I just got back to the studio after visiting the Brunschwig & Fils warehouse sale in White Plains.
Some of the planet's finest fabrics for breath-takingly low clearance prices.  I wish I'd had a LOT of money to spend!

But I restrained myself to something that I'm going to use, for myself.  We need some new shades and here's what they're going to be made from:
The part in the foreground, still on the roll, the mottled pattern, is the wrong side- can you believe that???

When the light shines through, here is what you see:

This is without a doubt The Most Fabulous Fabric in the World!
The second I saw this bolt at the warehouse I knew it was the one.

In case you wondered what's in the plastic bag, here it is.  I'm always a sucker for novelty prints, but when I can say I'm making something for a child out of it, I feel totally justified.  (I have no idea what I'm going to make.  I just had to get this.)

But back to the shade fabric.
 I imagine I'll use the reverse side as banding, or possibly the valance- since these shades will be top-down, or top-down-bottom-up, and will need a valance to cover the mechanism.
 Behind it we think we're going to put another shade, a sheer of some sort.  It's always fun to experiment on oneself.
 If there were enough room, I'd also put a blackout shade in there somehow!  But then we'd have a headrail projection halfway into the room.

This is the second post today, so just scroll down a bit to the next post to see one of the valances we delivered this morning.