Thursday, June 25, 2009

Cafe Curtains


I finally took down from the kitchen window the dirty, half-broken blinds that were always trying to fall down onto William or myself. Now there are pretty, airy, non life-threatening cafe curtains in their place!

I whipped these up in an afternoon after months of thinking about doing them. I always work up things like this in my mind to be a big deal. And then I finally do it, and it's not a big deal at all.



One funny thing about these curtains is that this fabric was originally intended to be made up into place mats. I even had them mostly all cut out. Six months later, I found store-bought place mats that I liked and then had a pile of rectangles sitting around. So, to do these curtains, I had to sew all those pieces back together again. Haha! Which means the bottom curtain is a bit silly, but we'll just call it character.

6 comments:

Lisa said...

Cute!

I think I do the same thing with building projects up. It really is just a matter of sitting down and doing it.

Kaja said...

adorable fabric! you did a great job. curtains are like the easiest thing ever..i love it!

Sweet Mess said...

Those look so cute!

Alissa said...

Oh, I love them! The fabric is adorable. Now I want to see them in person!

Shauna said...

I have been stalking your blog for a while now, but I have to say: you are so crafty and these are so cute.

Betsie said...

I made curtains out of this same fabric! I love it so much, it makes me so happy to walk into my kitchen every morning and see that cheerful fabric! I love the cafe curtain idea, yours look fantastic!