OT? Poly-cotton

Dear All,

Went fabric shopping (not for quilting fabric, but rather to sew my curtains and some baby stuff for family), and just about fell in love with this:

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The pattern is just so cute, a little brighter than my computer shows. It is the one used in the "tent" in the pic on the page too.

However, it is a poly-cotton sateen (65% polyester/35% cotton) so what to use it for? I'm not so sure that it is cotton-y enough for bedding (this is a country of duvetcovers!) It needs to be something biggish, since the pattern is quite large.

What (if anything) would you use this type of fabric for?

Thanks!

Hanne in DK

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Hanne in DK
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Possibly a duvet cover top with this really entertaining fabric + curtains + pillowcase edges; using a more cottony underneath for the duvet cover? After all, the filling of the duvet will probably be a mixture at best? . In message , Hanne in DK writes

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Pat S

"Hanne in DK" Dear All,

Looks like the tent is really a curtain covering a window. Regular curtains would be cute for a child's room. Just my openion! Barbara in SC

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Bobbie Sews More

I'm pretty sure the duvet will be down :-) But the two-sided thing is a good idea.

I'm almost tempted to use it as one side of a throw for my, just because. The colours fits my room.

Hanne in DK

Den 06-10-2012 16:12, Pat S skrev:

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Hanne in DK

At my house that would become the room side shower curtain, or bathroom curtains. One bathroom is coral reef, making the other Antarctic is just so the kind of thing I would do.

Alternatively making it a tablecloth would also appeal. Orcas and penguins, all the makings of a meal right there. Though real life penguins would no doubt object and maybe even picket my house. Now I have given myself a visual of the Madagascar penguins protesting orcas in front of my house... I just keep doing stuff like this to myself. *sigh*

Poly-cotton is just fine for tough use projects like curtains and what have you, and it holds up to humidity or occasional damp quite well. So bathroom or kitchen projects are usually a pretty good use for it, especially one like this which is a bit more poly than I would normally like for most other uses.

NightMist

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NightMist

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