CURTAINS!

Those of you who have ever had to make a decision about them, or go curtain shopping will especially understand the fulfillment of finally completing this type of project.  I fully understand the time spent browsing through internet sites getting ideas, comparing prices, and just when you get it figured out, then you have to decide on how you will hang them and which curtain rods to get!  I know it is quite the involved lengthy, and often times tedious and frustrating process.  I completely sympathize with anyone who decides they want to make no more decisions all together and is just going to hang a sheet over their window.  I have been pretty close to that point myself a few times.  Actually, I have been there, granted it was shirts and jackets not a sheet.   I wasn’t trying to decide what I wanted, I was trying to finish making them, but it’s all the same.

I can’t remember at exactly what point in time I decided this, but I remember deciding that I was going to make our bedroom, basement and spare bedroom curtains.  I decided that since our windows are an odd shape, long and short, that it would be more cost and time effective to make the curtains.  Not to mentions I could make the exact style I wanted instead of having to settle for something that was just close to my ideal.  Well, cost effective, yes, design effective, yes, time efficient, not so much.  But I am proud to announce that now we do in fact have completed bed room curtains!!!!!!!!!!!!

This process turned into more than I was expecting, as far as time and effort.  How it all started was that I found some really cute fabric at IKEA.com.  Only to find out, when I was about to purchase it, that they don’t sell fabric online L, nor is there an IKEA anywhere in Colorado L. The next logical step, see what IKEA stores close to my relatives strung across the states have the fabric I wanted in stock.  First was San Fran, where one of Josiah’s sisters lives, no such luck. Next was Florida, where his other sister was attending culinary school at the time, no luck there either.  My last hope…the store in Portland, not too far from where my parents live, JACKPOT!  They had everything I wanted in stock, well almost.  Since my mom LOVES going to IKEA this request was a definite yes, and since she has such a good since of décor she was able to find a couple of replacements for what they didn’t have in stock.

With the fabric selection down, the next step was the style of curtain that I wanted to make for our bedroom and spare bedroom (I knew what I wanted already for the basement), I was thinking of making the same style, for simplicity sake.  Of all places I got the idea from a women’s restroom at a local restaurant.  Josiah took me there for dinner one night and I fell in love with the curtain style immediately!  It didn’t look too complicated (yet!) and was a simple design, yet elegant and different from what I had seen before.  My mother-in-law works not too far from the restaurant, so she went to look at them also, since she’s the one who was going to help me with them.  One more step complete, all I had left to do what make them! Easier said than done…

This turned into one of those projects that looks and sounds a lot easier than it actually is.  As a result I never really wanted to work on them, which made them take longer to finish, which meant more time of hanging clothes from our bed room windows.  The worst part was in the meantime of procrastinating to get the bedroom curtains finished, I completed the basement curtains in one day!  That shows how long I have been working on them, because the post from the basement curtains was on November 11^th.  Which means it took me about 3 months to get two curtains complete. But they are done now!  YAY!  I finished them completely a few days before Christmas and we got them hung up the very next day.  I don’t think Josiah has been so enthusiastic to hang anything on ours walls as those curtains J, in fact I know he hasn’t.  Let me tell you we have enjoyed these very much, probably more than any of my other sewing projects.

And let’s just say, that I opted to choose a different style of curtains for the spare bedroom, my hope is that it will give me motivation to get them complete a bit faster J.