New Curtains

Once I was over the pain that was the pettiskirt, the natural thing to do seemed to be to pick up something equally large scale in the dullness stakes and sew up some lined curtains for Zoe’s room. I bought some tab top curtains for $30 from the bargain bin at Ikea 2 years ago thinking that I could somehow string them up without having to get my sewing machine out of the cupboard. Of course I couldn’t – so they have sat clogging my cupboard since then. Which was fine, until they got moved to my marvelous sewing room cupboard where quite frankly they were taking up precious space that could have been used to store more inspiring fabric. So I bought some lining, cut the tab-top curtains up, gritted my teeth and started sewing.

And here are the photos to show that you shouldn’t put jobs like this off – because as boring as sewing curtains might be, nothing transforms a room like taking down the 30 year old faded blue curtains and replacing them with something new.

Here are the before shots:

And here are the new curtains:

These photos don’t do the job any justice – the curtains give the room a soft creamy quality which the faded old blue curtains certainly didn’t. I purposely put a very lightweight backing on them because I can’t be bothered opening and closing them every day, so this way they can stay closed most of the time and Zoe can still see during the day. The only problem I can see with the curtains is that they now show up how old and faded Zoe’s bedcover is – which is ok – because next on the list is a new quilt for the little girl….