Please help find fabric!

16 years ago

I'm asking for help from my fellow GWers in the CT/MA/RI area. I found some fabric that is perfect for my LR drapes at Canton CT Job Lot the other day. DH struck out in Bloomfield tonight. After 2 days of taking care of DD with the stomach bug, now I've got it and will be housebound a few days. Can you all look in your local Job Lots and if you see any of this grab it for me? Let me know through GW and we'll make arrangements for me to pick it up, or you to send it, and for payment. Thanks for helping out!

Here's the fabric - almost silky, sage green, light gold, with thinner stripes of dark gold surrounding the pinstripes of light gold, green, and a dark brown/taupe. *Very* thin raised pinstripes of a reddish color in the middle of a metallic gold pinstripe. Even if you don't think it's exact, if it's close grab it and post a picture, I'll look at it. They can't have that many green/gold shiny silky stripes. Thanks again.

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mitchdesj
16 years ago
shouldn't you try and get it all from the same bolt/dye lot ? there could be variations.
2ajsmama
Original Author
16 years ago
mitch - there's no telling where Job Lot got it, no guarantee that what I have is from the same dye lot anyway. Looks close - so I'll use what I have on the big window, looking for 4 more 3-yd or longer cuts for the other two windows. If each store gets a box (or two) of 4 packages (what they told me on the phone, but couldn't say if it was what I was describing) or 36 yds of each fabric, then maybe all 4 are from the same bolt, if someone can even find me 2 and another store has another 2 I can use them on the separate windows and I'm sure no one would notice any minor variations in color.
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2ajsmama
Original Author
16 years ago
DH struck out in Southwick MA this AM, even though they said they would hold it for me they had nothing at the service desk and he couldn't find any on the tables.

The next time anyone's in Job Lot (I *know* there must be JL shoppers here!) can you please look for me? Thanks.
2ajsmama
Original Author
16 years ago
I found 1 more piece yesterday, still looking for 2 (or 3, since 1 that I have has a pull in it)!
dekeoboe
16 years ago
Wonderful. So how many packages do you have now?
2ajsmama
Original Author
16 years ago
I have 6, counting the one that has a pull in it. So actually I have enough to make 4 80-something" wide panels *if* I want to cut out the pull and match the stripe, but I'm still looking for 3 more so I can just put 2 55-58" wide panels on each window (counting the large window as 2, so 4 panels on that). That way I have extra fullness and don't have to worry about matching pattern :-)

I emailed Customer Service, they emailed pictures to (all? or just CT/MA/RI?) stores, so far no one has responded but they said as soon as they heard from a store they'd email me. So I may be back with specific locations for you all to look for me. Thanks.

Actually, I like this fabric so much that if I find enough, do you think I could use it in *both* my LR (stationary back-tab panels only?) and DR (with valances - I can use the defective piece for those)? They are directly across the foyer from each other, if I leave the French doors open to the LR you can see all the LR windows from the DR.

Or I could buy the ready-made in the *very* similar (slight color difference in the gold stripe, maybe the green is a little different too) curtains and valances from Country Curtains? Since I only have 2 windows in the DR, it's not an awful lot of $$.

Does using the same fabric in similar (but not identical, since I don't think I can make the tapered valance in a double-wide) treatment help unify the space, or does it just look uninspired?