Just Right

I am co-hosting an event in a few weeks time, for which I have been planning the decorations. The room is a mix of contemporary and rustic, odd I know, but there are rough pine paneled walls, chrome fixtures, large expanses of glass, and a solid mirror wall above the mantel.

The one time I saw the room in person, it was being decorated for a wedding. The center pieces were sweet and cute, not at all fitting the room itself, I thought. I knew then that I wanted something more in keeping with the site, and started planning this fabric at that time.

Now that it is on the loom, it is just right. This fabric will be perfect, with the chrome, glass, stones (yes, actual rocks!), and flowers that will be added to it, for the table and mantel decorations.

I had a few struggles:



Before I started weaving, I thought the weft would be gold, but I liked the black yarn better (I did not like the white *at all*). I like the way the black weft makes the black and white stripes so crisp. The table cloths will be black, with white napkins and a white undercloth. The overall look of this additional fabric is very contemporary rustic, just like the room it will grace.

Now I could have shopped for, and bought fabric that would suit. But I didn't. Just like we could all buy sweaters, socks, and yarn in *just the right color*, but sometimes we don't. We make them instead. We like seeing our own ideas, our own version, our own little refinements on what is available in the world. It's a further comment on the ideas in this post: that we do what we do for the love of it.

In a recent email exchange with Karen at Curiousweaver, she said: it's exciting being able to weave, don't you think? Yes, it is. And this is one of those times when the ability to make just what I want is very gratifying. I think that is another basic reason why many of us do all of this spinning, weaving, dyeing and knitting: to make something that is just what we want, something that is just right.