Home Styling Tips from Vern Yip

Vern Yip Fabrics for J&O

 

Most known for his TLC show Trading Spaces and his various HGTV shows including HGTV Design Star, Deserving Design, HGTV Urban Oasis, and Live in Vern’s House, as well as his columns in both HGTV Magazine and The Washington Post; international architect and interior designer Vern Yip is a sought after designer who has no intentions of slowing down. Based out of Atlanta, Georgia where he runs his Vern Yip Designs Firm, Yip continues to provide invaluable insight into creating environments that are simultaneously beautiful and functional.

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Vern Yip Collection @ J&O Fabrics

50% Off All Trims, Tassels And Cording OR 10% Off All Novelty Fabric

J&O Trims, Tassels, Cording OR Novelty Fabric Discount

The great thing about shopping J&O Fabric online is all of the options. To give you even even more buying power, from now until Sunday December 11th, you can get 50% off any order of trims, tassels, and cording or you can choose to get 10% off any order of novelty fabric using the code NETFAH50. Both the fabulous accessories and the fabric are perfect for gift giving or decorating your house during this holiday season!

 

Discount Trims, Tassels, and Cording

J&O Winter Sun Decorative Cording

J&O Fabrics & Facebook…’She Likes Me, She Likes Me Not.’

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In less time than it takes the average seamstress to organize her sewing space….again, J&O Fabrics has increased our Facebook fan base to 3,500 and we owe it all to you, our fabulous customers! From our interactive sewing tips and crafty fabric project ideas, to our exclusive discounts and creative contests, our J&O Fabrics/Facebook family packs a wealth of talent and information within the four walls of our home, office and laptop monitors on a daily.  

J&O Fabrics Tip: Four Basic Handsewing Stitches

Every once and awhile we come across a blog other than our own that speaks to the ideas and topics we as seamstresses and craftsmen(women) have interest in. Whether it’s a new technique, sewing gadget or application, or the latest trend in fabrics and textile goods, if it has to do with our livlihood, we want to know!

It would be just the other day that I would stumble across this blog as I was searching for ideas to expound on for our own Facebook sewing tip of the day. For both novices and experts alike, this simple breakdown of four basic stitches has its way of coming in handy long after our first needle has been thread many years ago.

J&O Fabrics presents: 5 Uses for Trim Other Than Decorating

Have some FUN with Trims!

Here at J&O; we carry a huge amount of trims. Most of our trim customers are professional Interior Designers, Set Designers or upholsterers. They use the trims for elaborate draperies and high end furniture.

Personally, I love embellishments, and I love a challenge. When I started working here and feasted my eyes on these trims naturally I did not think much beyond the normal use. Now that I see them everyday my mind has started to work overtime on what I could do with these cools finds. Here are a few ideas I’ve come up with:

Trim By Trim

This article is for all my penny pinching, frugal living, creatively resourceful yet sometimes lazy, financially challenged but can make lemonade out of lemons folks who are looking to add a little spice to those boring and out dated curtains, pillows and home accent pieces taking up residence in the comfort of your home.

Contrary to what you may have heard, in just a few simple steps, you can create great custom designed home furnishings without breaking bank or a sweat. All you need is a little imagination, a little patience and some trimmings and viola! pretty curtains, fun pillows, an elegant bedspread….all simply hand-crafted by you.

Trims: From Past Fad to Future Fashion

If you have a garment, home accent piece or window dressing that has lost its va-voom, or is just plain ole’ outdated, the simple and inexpensive options that could bring them back to life are only a few sentences away.

Short of doing a complete re-upholstering, window treatment or spending unnecessary hard earned money purchasing something new; why not just add a little trim? For some, the idea of trimming is restricted to tassels and gimp braiding, but let’s expand that avenue a little, for trim can encompass so much more.