Project Week: Curtain Call

I’m not much of a thespian, but even I know that the curtain call comes at the end of a performance. And so, it’s fitting that the new sleek white curtains for the guest bedroom makeover were the last thing I accomplished during Project Week.

Going for a clean, crisp relaxing feel for the guest bedroom, white curtains were a must.

But not just any curtain would do. My hunt for a brisk linen window dressing yielded me with options that were not quite right, or not within the budget I set for the total room makeover.

As I pondered what to do, I eyed my trusty sewing machine, gathering dust in the guest bedroom closet. It was begging me to use it. So, I set out to some of the local fabric stores and finally found just what I was looking for at the Maine-legend-of-a-store: Marden’s. I left with 12 yards of fabric for only $30. That was less than one panel would cost for the curtains I was eyeing online. Deal.

Now, if only I could keep myself focused enough to fold, iron and sew 16 straight lines…

Here’s how I did it. I divided my 45″ wide fabric into quarters to make 4 panels, giving me 9 feet for each (my ceilings are only 8 feet, so this would give me plenty of room to mess up without ruining the whole project).

I moved the existing hardware up a few inches and then measured that the final panels should be 86″. With plenty of fabric to spare, I trimmed off some of the extra and then made the following 4 folds for each of the 4 panels, ironing each fold as I went.