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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

$1.50 a yard Prim Gal Curtains....

Ok...so I am cheap, why not be cheap when Walmart has $1.50 a yard sage green, prim checked fabric that you can throw in your cart while grabbing your groceries...?  If you can make a header you can make curtains.  All I did was measure my windows and cutting the fabric is a breeze when its checks, just follow the line. I hemmed the sides first and then the bottom hems and lastly made the headers. For those of you who don't know what a header is its the part that your rod goes in and that little part that sticks up above the rod and ruffles a little. It looks much better when you make a header that just having a plain rod pocket, it gives the curtain a little more something something.  I know a lot of people would say these belong in the kitchen but for those that love the Prim look they are just fine in the living room.  The topper is just a shorter version of the bottom curtain, its just tied up with some of the fabric I cut into strips, sew easy!   I chose sage green because it helped bring down the tone of my living room walls which is a mocha glazed pumpkin spice sorta deal.  So since you go into my dinning room straight through my living room I brought the sage color of these curtains onto the dinning room walls (which were previously pumpkin). It seemed to help my soul a lot when I changed that color in the dinning room. You can see the new color in my previous post.  I plan on making curtains for the dinning room as well and they will have the mocha glazed pumpkin spice color deal in them, also a cheap fabric from Joann's this time... That fabric is not a small check but a homespun fabric.  I used tension rods for the bottoms and they just snap in between your window woodwork, I love tension rods. You can get them really cheap at your Dollar General store, like I said I am cheap!  The toppers are on some fancy rods left over from my Victorian era... lol
Stay tuned because we are starting the stairwell where I plan to repaint my wood steps, use some stained glass window film instead of curtains and the walls are getting painted white. We are going for a stark gallery look because the Hubs wants somewhere to display his ever growing button collection. He plans on displaying some of them in old printer drawers, maybe I will display a few quilt blocks as well that I framed. Here are a couple more pictures.  Happy Prim!




6 comments:

  1. I Love the curtains....you did a great job....I think the price was right...wonderful

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  2. lindeelou
    Thanks for your kind comments! Bloggers love all the encouragement they can get!

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  3. Nice, really dresses up your window. Now I feel the need to do something like this as well.

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  4. Love it and so glad you found the check you were looking for. Great job.
    Cathy

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  5. Yarndiva,
    You sound like me, I am always such a copy cat but in the copying I find I change this or that and try to make it mine. I don't work outside my home so my budget is small and a 1.50 a yard sure sounds good to me but make sure you wash your fabric and press it first because cheap fabrics usually shrink like mad but I have made retro aprons out of cheap fabrics that I have not washed and they never shrank a bit... go figure! lol Thanks so much for all your comments, they make my heart beat fast!

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  6. Your curtains are so pretty. I bet it makes you feel so good to have brand new.........hand sewn curtains. Very nice.
    Blessings,
    Linda

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