I was going to reply to Kate but pressed the wrong button and deleted everything, so I will throw everything in one post which will allow me to get back to my comfy chair more quickly.
Being as it appears that I am going to spend most of the summer sitting quietly (AGGGH!) I thought I would see if I could get a goodly sized piece of linen and make a hedebo tablecloth that I have been promising myself for years. Not a chance of it it seems. Everything I have found is either too fine, too lightweight, dyed, or priced into the stratosphere. DH knowing of my search called me from a shop and asked if aida cloth would work. Apparently the woman who owns the place suggested it. Um, no. I am to the point of considering things like scenery canvas and looking at linen weave cottons. It is just easier to use proper linen, and looks nicer, it is not impossible to use cotton.
I have had double wedding rings on my mind lately, a result of the recent wedding and needing to make one for their first anniversary no doubt. My mind wandered in the direction of two sets of rings, one set in shades of violet and one in shades of gold, on a neutral background. It would suit their bedroom, add some color, and not be too much. This brought to mind metallics and wondering how they hold up to laundering these days. Especially after I started looking about and came across some of Kaufman's Ornamentations, and FusionsII. Wow that is metallic! All over and lots of it! And they immediately put the idea of a prismatatic star, starting with intense solids and evolving through prints into metallics shooting out the ends of the rays, into my head. I would want to know how well they held up in the laundry before spending money on them and useing them in a big project though. When it is just metallic highlights you can mourn their loss when they are gone, and it is not a big deal. When the whole fabric is metallic I have to hesitate and ask around, no matter how fabulous it is. I am delighted to see that the days of charging half again as much when metallics are incorporated into a fabric seems to be passing. The fusions and ornamentations I was looking at: