When it all comes together!

when it all comes together! Photograph by me. 

So, recently as I looked for fabrics to recover one of the sofas in the living room, my magpie tendency had me gravitating towards the beautiful brocades. This gives you an idea of what I was looking at (multiply by at least 5 stores and as many shelves groaning with these beautiful weaves). Heaven, I know.

I pulled out and looked at numerous fabrics like the ones below:

and finally bought a couple of swatch size cut-offs to try on the sofa at home, before buying the whole 12-19 yards...

It looked TERRIBLE. I had a feeling that I should look at velvets/ultra suedes etc, but of course I made the fatal mistake of stopping off at my favourite fabric stores, and had predictable gotten completely side tracked. I had desperately wanted to use these lovely, sumptuous fabrics in the house somewhere, despite my husband describing the resulting atmosphere as a "boudoir" (not a complement, I assure you). Sigh. 

So, the lovely swatches lay languishing in my fabric trunk until one fateful day, when I was trying to pull together an ensemble to wear to a Mehndi celebration for a cousin's wedding. Well! Life works mysteriously. I loved the greeny yellow saree - seemed perfect for the occasion, but since no sari blouses fitted me, I needed some fabric for the sari. Viola! As I looked through the fabric trunk, my off cut seemed the choice that gave the sari more oomph (believe me, I would never have thought of buying that especially for this sari!). Some serious consultations later (with my mother, aunt, and another cousin all courtesy of wonderful WhatsApp group chat), the verdict was IN. Yup - this sari with this blouse and those earrings that pull it all together was the way to go.