Lots of Dots Bed and Bath

There are so many great ideas and techniques used in this well coordinated bedroom and bath.  Judy Day collaborated with her daughter, Beth, to create all the components, each of which included lots of dots. 

Inspiration was provided by a pricey piece of silky brown fabric with blue three dimensional fringed circles.   Beth asked her mother, Judy Day, to reproduce these circles for accents on the bedroom curtains she planned to make.

The fringed motif on the left is part of the decorator fabric.  The blue circle on the right was created by Judy using Babylock’s MasterWorks 2.  The photo is not very sharp, but even so it is clear that Judy’s smaller blue circle is nearly identical to the other.

Judy studied the fringed circles and recognized that they were no more than zig zag stitches radiating from a  center circle.  She digitized the design in Babylock’s MasterWorks 2, clipped the bobbin thread behind the zig zags, clipped the loose loops to make fringe and then used the fringed fabric circles to cover buttons.

Beth made the curtains, using a simplicity pattern for the valance.

Shortly after deciding on the blue dots/brown silky fabric theme Beth happened upon the brown towels with blue dots, along with a matching bath mat at a department store. 

Judy monogrammed the towels and the bed/bath decor was well on its way.

Judy made shower curtain of a luscious satiny fabric and again digitized the design on the covered buttons.

These were not fringed, but the stitches radiating from the center circle mimicked the buttons on the bedroom curtains.

The crisp ensemble creates a sophisticated yet warm mood for this young family.

Beth, an elementary school teacher, managed the long distance, teamwork project with her mother.  Two sewing rooms and a mother/daughter team separated by hundreds of miles apart brought lots of dots together.

They both must be proud and satisfied with the results.