My New Easter Tablecloth

When my friend Kim and I were in Bangladesh last summer a friend gave us something that is called a three-piece.  It is three pieces of material that coordinate either in colour or pattern or both and you take it to the tailor to be made into a salwar kameez (like what Kim and I are wearing in the photo below).   

While we appreciated the generosity, there were two problems with the gift.  First, we didn't need any more salwar kameezes and second, the material was bright pink with embroidery on it.  Between you and me, we just weren't into wearing bright pink embroidered clothing from head to toe.  Fortunately Kim got the idea that we could make the material into Easter tablecloths. It was an inspired idea as now we had some way to use the gift and we would have a touch of Bangladesh on our Easter tables.  

So the other day I got the material out and lay it on the floor since it had now been eight  months since I had last seen it.  One piece had an all-over pattern (on the left in the photo below), one piece had a border of embroidery with scattered pieces down the middle (on the right), and one piece was plain (the folded piece lying in the middle).  I'm assuming the plain one is made into the pants, the all-over patterned one is for the tunic, and the one with a border is the scarf, but I'm not entirely sure.

Initially I was going to make a tablecloth by putting the piece with an all-over pattern down the middle and cutting the piece of material with a border in half lengthwise and sewing it down either side.  My husband suggested that I just use the piece with the all-over print and layer it over a white tablecloth to break up all that pink.  It was a brilliant idea and it looked great.  I decided to use fusible webbing instead of sewing as I didn't want to have seams showing along the bottom edge.  Once I had it all ironed I put it on the table to try it out along with one of the plates that we like to use for special occasions and that just happens to have pink flowers.

Don't they look like they were made for each other - dishes meet tablecloth, tablecloth meet dishes.

I bought this leaf-shaped bowl in Bangladesh as well, with the express purpose of using it to display our Easter eggs.   I'm going to put the Easter eggs in the middle of the table so I had to try them out too.  

I think it is all coming together.  Now we just need something to eat.

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