Wow funny this thread is here...My sister and I share the holidays now (Thanksgiving and Christmas) We both own china service of 12 but of course different patterns...Anyway we usuallay seat between 24-30 so we use good quality paperplates (YUK!!) so we decided were gonna buy a good set...we like the traditiinal Lenox Christmas with the ribbon and holly and this morning i was online and came across Corelle's holiday dishes...granted its not China but the Lenox will run us at least 4000.00 and the Corelle 500.00 and we wont have to cringe everytime someone makes a move at the dining room banquet table!!! Big fan of corelle and the holiday patterns are beautiful. Think were gonna go this route I emailed them to ask if they had and plans to make ones for Thanksgiving....My dream for sometime now is to purchase JOHNSON BROTHERS AUTUMN MONARCH!!!!!! Will buy at some point off Ebay or Replacement Ltd i think Hubby will choke me LOL!!!

Good morning. Is it the Tuck-In or Bow-Knot scarf by Katherine Burgess the one you have knit? That one is pretty isn't it? I have one of those started in alpaca - somewhere. When the weather warmed up in the Spring a few months ago, that knitting got shoved aside. But it is probably just about time to get it out again. There is a Confetti Neck Wrap at: http://www.cherryyarn.com/PDFs/confettineckwrap.html It has a slot in it and the yarn used could be substituted, although it doesn't look like it could be snugged up all that close to the neck to prevent drafts. But ... the Berroco Keyhole Scarflet at the link below could be more along the line of what you are looking for. Happy knitting! Here is a link that might be useful: Berroco Keyhole Scarflet

It's not installed yet but I put a deposit down on patterned wall to wall in a trellis pattern for my upstairs hall and stairs (will be cut and bound as a runner - and also an area rug for downstairs. I got it on deep discount because it's been discontinued and cannot find the pattern online but this is the colorway: No border in my small space and I could not afford the coordinated runner with smaller border so we kept it simple. The pattern is a trellis pattern, which which looks like it is made of a twisted ribbon, with a small flower at each intersection. This is the only area of wall to wall in our house - every other room is hardwood or tile - but we'd have to move out while refinishing the floor under the carpet so we decided to go for a "posh hotel" style carpet in our 120 year old house. I will post pics when it is done. People don't use it much for two reasons. 1) carpet is not trendy at the moment in general 2) patterned carpet is way way way more expensive than plain carpet. I mentioned we got a closeout piece - to do the same job in the scroll pattern I posted with coordinated runner would have been over $2k for my small hall and stairs. We are paying about $1100 for what we got. To do it in a patterned berber (harlequin) would have been about $700. Patterned carpet is a pretty high end product.

Oh, no, you don't need extra panels or pleats or anything if you're not doing a return at the sides! I didn't mean to give you extra work! A single panel will be fine! If you want to get fancy you can even add a bit of piping to the edge. If you don't have a good fabric store where you can buy piping on a tape that you can just pin into your seam and sew when you sew on your lining, it's easy to make one. In case you need instructions: Find a cord that's just a little smaller around than you want the piping to be, Cut a strip of fabric that's wide enough to wrap around the cord plus about 2 inches, and about six inches longer than the valence. Fold the cord into the strip and pin closed (right side out). Use your zipper foot to sew close to the cord, leaving just a little wiggle room (approx. 1/8"). Trim the edge from the cord to the the raw, to the same width as your seam allowance for the valence, so that it's easy to make everything line up. When you put your lining back to back with the valence fabric, the piping goes in between, with the cord inside and the all the edges lining up. Use your zipper foot again to sew your seam right along where the piping is. Because you left a little room next to the cord, your first stitching to make the piping should be covered by the new seam, but it shouldn't matter since it'll be so far above eye level, if you use matching thread to the piping color to make the piping. When you stitch, don't go right to the ends, or unpick it back to where your side seams will be. That way you can tuck the end of the piping up in the seam, tack it in place to the lining fabric, and cut it off. You can trim out the end of the cord within the piping fabric at the end to keep it from making a lump. Then finish the corners and top/rod pocket, as usual. If you want the piping to go up the sides, make it the correct length (bottom plus 2 sides, plus an inch for turning plus 6" for sanity. As you turn the corner when you're basting/pinning, clip from the outer edge of the piping corner, in toward the stitching line, ending a tad before the stitching.