Upcoming project: Curtains

Tomorrow we receive keys to our new house! If you do not remember, when we moved here we were offered an older house with the promise of a newly constructed house when they were completed. We were not expecting to move until later in the summer, but it came early! I am so excited! We walked by the house last week and I love it.

The challenge is that this house is bigger and has more windows. Therefore, I need more curtains. Target no longer sells the curtains I currently have in the living room, so that means NEW CURTAINS! Darn! (haha) As many people know, curtains are pretty expensive. Since I have some basic sewing skills, I will be making my own.

A lot of people are working with drop cloth for curtains. I looked them up yesterday out of curiosity and I totally see why it is all the rage. I might be jumping on that bandwagon. However, I am going to add some color by sewing some patterned fabric on them. I just have to figure out how I want to do it.

I received a Joann Fabric gift card for my birthday, so I am hoping to use that, but all the fabrics I am falling in love with are on Etsy. I'll have to make a trip to the store before deciding. Here are the fabrics I am considering:

Charles picked this one as his favorite

Some darn cute curtains!

Since joining Pinterest I've been pinning away. I pinned some really cute curtains that I wanted to try in my kitchen. I've been looking and looking for curtains in there, but I haven't been able to find anything worth buying. I had a bunch of left over red and white polka dot fabric when I made a curtain to go over the windows in the back door, so I knew I had to use that.

Here's the image I pinned:

Source--really easy! They could probably be done basically no sew if you aren't handy with a sewing machine

And here's my final product: