I finally finished these silly things! Let me just say...I hate making curtains! But now I've learned I hate making striped curtains even more!
When we started doing the living room project (new floors, furniture, paint etc) I found these curtains on a blog called the Yellow Cape Cod. (this is her picture and her blog is linked below)
http://www.theyellowcapecod.com/2011/01/bold-striped-diy-drapes.html
I loved the curtains the moment I saw them! She posted instructions on how she did hers...I did mine a bit differently. First of all I went to IKEA and bought inexpensive white panels. Another difference is that my stripes are 13.5 inches wide versus her 14 (not that big of a deal i'm just saying what mine are!)
Another thing I did...I pinned my stripes down( i was real technical with my measurements...ha! ) and then I did a basting stitch with the sewing machine. I think she chose to use the heat and bond so that she could remove the stripes later...but since I used inexpensive curtains that I wouldn't hang without the stripes, I wasn't concerned about removing the stripes later. The basting stitch just made it easy for me to iron on the ribbon to cover the unfinished stripe edge.
She uses her tabs to hang her curtains and I chose not to. I already had rings with clips and I wanted to hang my curtains that way. So i cut the tabs off. Then I took black quilt binding and covered the unfinished edge. I hemmed the bottom stripe with heat and bond.
These weren't hard to do. They were just time consuming and I'm not good at keeping things straight so that was a challenge! :D
Anyway, here is a pick of them at night since I finished them late last night. I need to get a pick of them in the daylight. I really love how the turned out!
Plus I like this picture since it includes my pretty Christmas tree!
until next time...S
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