Last weekend, I bought fabric to make curtains for both my bedroom, and my craft room. For the bedroom, I wanted to stick with something not too feminine, and since we have a brown floral duvet cover, I also stayed away from any floral patterns. We do have a red silk sheet, and so when I found a red and cream striped fabric, I knew that it was the perfect fit to tie everything together.
I always thought I would go with something very bright and colorful for my craft room, but when I found this black and cream houndstooth, I could not pass it up. This will allow me a great opportunity to add pops of color through the artwork that I pick.
Turns out I did not buy enough fabric the first time around (I measured, I just did the math wrong, oops!) so I had to return during the week to get the rest. My windows are much bigger than the last windows I created drapes for, and in total, each window required 4 yards of fabric.Once I got working, things went quite well. I have to say that typically I skip the step of ironing my seams, but this time I took the time to do this. Let me tell you, I will never skip this step again. I barely had to pin it, saving a ton of time, and in the end, the finishing is much more smooth.
So, here is the Craft room.
...and here is the bedroom
I had the bedroom curtains done last night, and when I woke up this morning, the were glowing with the light behind them, this photo was taken from bed, I just love this effect.
A few weeks ago, I bought some pillow forms, and all hopped up on the success of these curtains, I decided to dive into the pillows. I had this great colorful paisley patterned fabric, and thought that it would be great to add a pop of color to our new futon. I did not really feel like tackling a zipper, but wanted to be able to switch out the covers easily. Last week, I was reading one of my new favorite blogs Little Green Notebook, and stumbled upon the post about her parents bedroom re-model. Mentioned in there were the envelope slips for the pillows that were created. I had seen these before, but it had never occurred to me to create these, but they were the perfect solution for me.
I searched around for tutorials, and found this one. I have to say, these are the easiest, most perfect pillows ever. Nothing like a 15 minute project to really give some satisfaction.
The only thing that I would change, is to add an extra 1" to the back panels, as the overlap is a bit tight. Other than that, these are the perfect bright happy addition.
Next up, adding photos to the walls, it is interesting how bare they look now that these curtains are up.
