After years of providing custom upholstering, elegant window treatments and beautiful home interior makeovers for customers, it’s easy for in-house fabric and design centers to accumulated their share of fabulous deco samples. From long-standing yet timeless home textile mills like Duralee, Robert Kaufman and Covington, to newer yet popular home deco designers like Vern Yip, Regal and Michael Miller, the array of fibers, colors, prints and designs that remain on hand long after the work orders are completed seem endless. And while these samples still serve as on-hand textiles to assist home project shoppers in bringing their vision into a more tangible reality, often times the patterns selected are discontinued by the mills and therefore remain on our shelves as appealing yet useless eye candy… seemingly. But to the creative seamstress, artisan or DIY craft connoisseur, these sample pieces ranging in size from 15″-20″ squares offer the perfect inspiration behind some seriously stylish and often funky D.I.Y craft creations.

 

 

 

 

From the stylishly simplistic to the fabulously funky,  when it comes to fashion, barriers of creative expression have not only been knocked down but trampled on thru the years, making way for the expansive imagination to unleash itself with a life of its own. As a result, a new breed of DIY designers and fashionista’s are finding wonderful ways to turn one fabric mill’s old into someone else’s new with style and flair.

Inspired by what you see?

Ready to turn some beautiful decorators fabric samples into unique garments, home fashion pieces or accessories?

 

Whether crafting individual sample swatches into small accessories and home accent pieces or stitching several samples together to make larger works of patchwork art, the world is full of do-it-yourselfer’s who don’t mind sharing their creations. As such, we took the liberty of  traveling across the internet to find some really easy craft tutorials that gave our quest for cool new creative meaning. To share in our excitement we thought we’d post a few of our finds for you to view and inspire in their own unique way.

D.I.Y MIX MATCH PLACE MATS

 

 

 FUNKY TEXTILE TOTES

 

 

D.I.Y HANGING LIGHTS

 

 

ASSORTED PATCHWORK FASHIONS

 

 Now the cool part!!!

You can get started right now! With literally HUNDREDS of designer decorative home decor fabrics in stock, J&O’s  inventory of beautiful discontinued samples are in surplus and ready to be shared with the public for your creative use. Measuring 16″ x 16″, our 5-pc home deco remnant packs each offer their unique mix of selected textiles in an array of prints, colors and textures for the aficionado to manifest at will. Have fun playing your part as a Eco-Steward for Mother Earth as well by recycling your own home decor rems in the same fashion. Whether through purchase or re-use, a little creativity goes a long way. Explore the creative adventures of turning your samples into funky D.I.Y. crafts today!

 

Check out our home deco rem-packs.

Check out our selection of home deco fabrics here.

Check out our full selection of fabric here.