Well, the linen swatches I ordered from Denver Fabrics finally arrived, through no real fault of theirs — I always have trouble with those website order forms.  My mail comes to a PO Box, but deliveries come to the house.  The post office tells me that I should be able to put my street address on the first line of the address and the PO Box on the second and that way both UPS and the Postal Service know where the mail goes.  That may be the case (Dave, the local UPS driver tells me this is so), however whoever designs web order forms does not know this because every time I try it I get a message back that UPS cannot deliver to PO Boxes.  It would seem simple enough, most forms only require an address in the first line of the address field, so they should just ignore whatever is printed on the second line.  Somehow, life is never that simple.

To make a long story short, my delivery address is my home address and my billing address is at the PO.  However the swatches were mailed, not sent UPS — hence a mix-up occurred.  They finally came Saturday, by mail.

The burgundy linen swatch will be a border for the multi-colored blue and burgundy cotton tablecloth.  I will probably also make napkins and napkins out of a green linen which coordinates well, but did not make as nice a statement with the fabric as this burgundy does.

The slate gray linen will be used with the gray abstract geometric cotton.  I have actually had a hard time finding the perfect gray for this fabric and happy to have finally succeeded.  I already have black linen napkins, but gray ones might be a nice change.

The fabric might be here by the end of the week, but I will be in NYC over the weekend so the tablecloths will have to wait a little longer.