This is very luxurious linen. At first when I received it I was a bit surprised that it was so stiff and hard, but after I machine washed and dried it in my dryer it came out so soft. I was astounded what a big difference laundering it had made! I reduced the wrinkles using a hand held steamer which really helped. When the fabric was ready for sewing I decided to make a throw, I frayed the edges and left the selvaged sides. It's so warm, thick & comfy! I plan to purchase more of this beautiful linen for towels and maybe some more throws for my friends as gifts.

I made a throw blanket using this jacquard fabric with bias tape from medium weight natural. I washed the fabric and tumble dried it, although I usually hang dry most of our laundry, but I wanted to jump start the texture according to the instructions. 'm really pleased with all of it - the texture, pattern, color, feel. It's not as warm as the cheap Costco fuzzy blankets but a zillion times prettier.

Bathroom Hand Towels I turned a 1 yard piece into hand towels for a friends half bath. She loves them. I cut 2 pieces 24" wide length wise. Mitered corners. Sides are folded 1/2" twice and hemmed. Washed and dried twice for shrinkage. Soaked in white vinegar and water for 24 hours, then shirt wash and hung to dry.

I made a 3 panel bedspread with this fabric using double lapped seams so that the pattern would align on both sides and so that it could have a nice finish on both sides, since it is a jacquard. It took a little figuring out to get it to align, but wasn't that hard in the end. You have to leave a section of overlapping pattern on both sides of the fabric and cut as straight as you can. For the single lapped seam, you only over lap the fabric a quarter of the way into the pattern repeat. Then when you fold the fabric, it brings the pattern together beautifully. I used a gluestick and pins for the first lapped seam without sewing and then folded for the double lapped seam and easily pulled the pins out and just stuck them back in again as I did the double lapped seam. Make sure you have the pins in the right way so they are easy to pull out. It went really fast. (I used the C shape in the middle of the photo as the overlapping region because it was easy to cut a straight line along the outside edge of. each C. I then found that the outer edges of the little tulip shaped parts of the pattern were at the right place to align the edge of the fabric for the single lapped seam. This fabric pattern is very nice to work with though because there is lots of symmetry in it and a lot of things to use as markers in other places.,)

Just finished vest using Simplicity 1499. Also used IL037 for piping (perfect match) and IL002 Royal Crest. Fabric was a fine to work with. TIP: stay stitch seams as well as doing ease stitching around any curved areas. Really stretches.

Purchased as Doggie bag and combined with natural to make a cozy jean jacket style coat.

This is lovely, durable fabric! This was made in 2019. 1 and 1/2 yards, half inch double fold side hems, 5 in single thickness ruffle in heavyweight natural mix. Still going strong - daily use and twice a week washing. Deborah

The couch throw was inspired by someone on this forum who used IL002 Royal Crest for a bed topper. I used a 1 yd Doggie Bag piece (one of my earliest FS purchases) & lined it & made bias binding w/IL020 Handkerchief Bleached. Thanks for the inspiration!

I bought a half yard from doggie bag and made 2 kitchen towels. Before washing dimension of 1 towel was 30.75" x 19". Hemmed before washing cutting off selvedge with a 3/8" double hem. Measuements after 24.5" x 16.25"

I think I bought 2 yards as a doggie bag, wasn't sure what I was going to do with it. But when I washed it and it fluffed up I knew it needed to be a throw, so... Voila! I made a bias tape from another doggie bag purchase of ILO98 Loire/Graphite. I love the combinations of textures and patterns, especially the reverse double sided-ness of the Royal Crest!