You bought how much Tulle?!

So the swan was fixed(ish), the local second hand shops were relieved of every gold edged plate and bowl I could find, I had trawled the local flea markets in search of glassware and further swans and I had even managed to buy 20 pairs of angel wings from Rave (probably due to all those fallen angles from the LYNX ads...Anyway, I digress. My next big problem was the chair covers. The ones in the book are dual layered, first a layer of champagne or pinkish satin/silk, covered over by a layer of tulle. I had previously looked at hire places for the chair covers, but at $20 a chair cover, times the number I needed = a lot. After much pondering and wishing I was a multi-millionaire, I remembered that a few weeks previously, myself and my boyfriend had attended an engagement party for one of his friends, and that the table cloths at the party were pretty much the colour required, made of the right fabric, and best of all, the brides mother had made the tablecloths, so hopefully I would be able to borrow them. Thankfully the lovely Amanda allowed me to borrow the tablecloths, and draped over the chairs they looked great, BUT, unfortunately there were only 9 tablecloths, and by that stage my guest list was 20 awesome friends. There was only one thing for it, it starts with Spot, and ends in light. So there I was one day after work during a Spotlight sale buying 40m of tulle, yes that's right - 2m per chair, times 20 chairs = 40m. Let me just say, I know, that is a friggin' lot of tulle. Add to that the 15m of Winston satin I bought for the remaining chair covers and I was starting to feel like perhaps spotlight ought to give me frequent flyer points, or at least a free thimble...At that point I brought all the fabric home, put it into the sewing room and shut the door for the magic sewing fairy to do her thing. Unfortunately, when I opened the door the weekend before the party, the magic sewing fairy had not done her job. Hmmm. So I pulled out the two massive rolls of tulle and set about cutting out the backs and fronts of the chair covers. I cut, sewed and pricked myself with pins for 3 days straight (thank god for long weekends) and by the end of it I was still only halfway through! I even had to laugh when I opened the door to the sewing room and it looked like a giant ball of cream fairy floss had swallowed my furniture, I was even dreaming about counting pins. But I knuckled down, came home from work every day as early as I could, and sewed like a mad-woman. By 9pm the night before the party, the chairs had clothes. Thank god!