China Seas Fabric: Bijou Stripe - Custom New Blue / Custom New Shrimp on Cream Suncloth (OUTDOOR) Suncloth/Sunbrella clear enough to read as

clear enough to read as happy

Twelve-inch repeat

you get light ground with dark motif

Maybe it was a Tuesday

The zig doesn't quite mirror the zag

China Seas Fabric: Bijou Stripe - Custom New Blue / Custom New Shrimp on Cream Suncloth (OUTDOOR) Suncloth/Sunbrella clear enough to read asI need to address the elephant in the room, which is that I am a stripe named Bijou, which means "jewel," and I am printed on Suncloth, which means "poolside." Jewels do not traditionally go to the pool. I am not traditional. I am also not just a stripe. Look closer. There is a paisley happening inside these stripes a tiny, intricate, deeply opinionated pattern nested within what appears, from across the terrace, to be a simple vertical rhythm of blue