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Syahrul Azlan Idris

When you’re on a tight budget but want to redecorate your home, you can still do so when you make the right choices. Discount fabrics will allow home owners to decorate their homes without spending too much. Aside from decorating, these fabrics can be used for many other ideas. Since drapery fabrics are usually quite heavy, they can be used for slipcovers, throw pillows, and duvet covers, to name a few. There are indeed lots of creative ways to use discount fabric.

You can create pretty decorative pieces even without sewing. For instance, you might try folding the fabric in an accordion-like style, and then create a beautiful jabot curtain by draping and feeding it through sconces and rings on the wall. Putting a tack in the middle of a drooping curtain will fix that in a jiffy. You can also use adhesive strips to create beautiful décor without sewing. It can be ironed onto the back of the fabric you’re using, so that it will hold two pieces together or even stick the fabric itself to the wall or another surface. Make sure to check first if the adhesive strips you use are washable or not. If you are using non-washable fabrics, this may not be important, but if you wash your curtains, it’s going to be a big deal.

If you prefer sewing, then you have lots more of great options. Novice sewers to experts can use a particular kind of sewing that makes good use of discount fabrics. Solid fabrics or ones with simple designs should be suitable for beginners, since stripes or plaids usually make it difficult for novices to match them properly. You want to have a professional look and feel to your work, not just home-made. Using tone-on-tone fabrics, where the colors are the same on both the pattern and the background, will allow you to get a patterned appearance. This kind of pattern has more allowances for mistakes.

You can also make pillows and table runners with your discount fabrics. Like I said a while ago, the heaviness of these fabrics makes them ideal for a lot of uses, not just curtains. A foam pillow with a drapery fabric slip over it will work great on your bed. If you want, you can put zippers for easier removal and cleaning. And speaking about cleaning, you can easily spot-clean these kinds of fabrics, so you don’t have to go to the cleaners.

If you’re a beginner sewer, making table runners with discount fabrics will be easy for you. Just put a backing of plain material, add some fringe or beading on the ends of the cloth, and voila! You have a lovely decorative piece for your home. Save money on bedspreads and bedroom décor by making duvet covers. If you use the same fabric, you can also make pillows and curtains to match. This is really an affordable technique that also allows you lots of leeway in decorating. Using discount fabrics will definitely let you mix and match colors and prints for your personal decorative purposes.

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Azlan Irda is the co-founder of http://www.aaafabric.com, which provides high-quality and affordable fabrics for all your needs. Visit us when you’re looking for discount fabrics.

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