Minnie looking at the designs in the fabric I think it is a southweast print not African because of the bird design and the fish. Kathi I never go to yard sales LOL they always have them everyyear on my street and other streets combined I mean a large sale and I never have gone.... I am thrift store or estate sale or antique store type person never cared for yard sales... Red

Red, glad you decided on the lining. Light will show thorugh the weave on the tapestry. What color did you get for the lining? I have a tapestry I made a valance for in my sewing room..it is a darker fabric and I used muslin for the backing....well, the sunlight still shows through it, and in the daylight I can't see the fabric pattern at all. So, they only look good at night!! Wish now I'd have used black as my backing. Great looking fabric by the way! Glad you found something you liked..and that they had enough yardage! Lynn in Pa

If it's a double bed size or smaller, I have used king sized sheets, too. I used flannel on a denim quilt. I also had eleven yards of *what was I thinking?* cotton I used just to get it out of my stash. It was pretty, but the occasional print on it just didn't work for any type of decorating or clothing I'd ever make and too far apart for a quilt block. I'm not the best at the quilting part of it, so of course I have also used some sort of patterned material to hide the stitching. If I were a really skilled quilter, I'd always use solids. If I am tying off a quilt instead of quilting, it doesn't make any difference. I really like muslin for backing, and can't believed I have never used it yet, but would.

A couple of thoughts... First, I would have no hesitation in going with silk or something fancier. It sounds like that will go with your eventual furnishing plans, and it is way easier to dress down silk than it is to dress up something more casual in the event that you later get dressy furniture. In fact, it looks like your first choice panel was a little fancier. Second, If you're doing the side-by-sides AND the four(?) single windows, you're going to have a lot of patches of this fabric around the room. I would therefore be inclined not to break the bigger set into patches as well, but stack them at either end of the stretch of windows. But if you are doing this on a single long rod, that will be something you can play with. Third, about where and how to find what you want. It sounds like so far you have two options on the table, either ready-to-hang, or going through a designer. It may be different around here (heck, I'm not even in the same country), but here there are a lot of independent drapery shops that don't bill themselves as "designers". I wonder if you could find one of those. show them the photo of the JCP panels you liked, and see if they can find you a similar fabric and make them to specification? We also have a decorator fabric store (a chain of three actually) where you wander in, pick your fabric, and they can make them up for you or you can just buy the fabric. Even our normal fabric stores around here have drapery sections... in other words, if you look for the fabric separately, you might have better luck than if you shop for finished panels. Finally, have you tried to actually call JCP, including their stores, to physically hunt down and flush out the last of those panels you like? I know this sounds a little obsessive (admittedly, I am) but I'd bet that several of their stores have one or two of them in remainder bins around the country, or that the warehouse has some somewhere. Worth pushing a little if you haven't already done so. But you do need a lot of them, and that might be hard to take to completion. Good luck! KarinL Here is a link that might be useful: Arlene's (aka fabric heaven)