Project 1: Play Room Windows -Complete! (sort of)-

I know me. The only way I have any chance of finishing a home project is to keep is SMALL. So I'm starting with these windows. This is our play room. We have plans to move the play room to the basement, but that plan is moving very slowly. So I'm going to fix up these windows. In play room fashion. For a start. =)

Ok, did I say SMALL project? Sheesh. Oh well. I do enjoy sewing, and I'm motivated. Sewing curtains requires a LOT of fabric, so unless you're richer than Midas, finding fabric that is inexpensive is key. Thank-you Wal-mart fabric section. I spent less than $15.00 on six yards of fabric. It's not exactly what I had in mind, but I think it'll cheer the place up a bit. And I found some nice remnants for other projects. =)

...8 side seams done....1 bottom hem done....measure, iron, turn, sew, measure, iron, turn sew.......tedious work....keeping myself motivated....but also thinking about the next project, and the next...

Four curtain panels done. Ties started. I can see the light at the end of this tunnel. Now I've got to actually go out and buy curtain rods. :/

Curtain rods purchased...............Ok, I just can't wait for hubby to get around to putting the rods up for me. And really. How hard can this be? And why do I wait for him to do it in the first place? Cuz it's hard with kids? Well, they're around when he does this stuff, too. So here goes nuthin'......

Ok, the truth is, I don't even want to share with you what transpired. Yes, I figured out how to put the brackets up for the curtain rods. Yes, I used a power tool (dear god) and some other fun things I found on hubby's work bench. I successfully got the rod up, and it looked straight. I excitedly hung the curtain panels on the rod, and put the rod on the brackets.

The curtains are about half a foot, Half a FOOT too short. How could this happen? Well, I'm an idiot, and these things always seem to happen to me. Of course I needed to know if I had measured the fabric wrong, or measured the window wrong. I got my answer quickly. I took the curtains, still on the rod, upstairs to my sewing room. The windows are on the same side of the house. I held the curtains up to the windows in there, the ones I had originally measured, and they were perfect. So the problem was that I assumed that the windows were the same length. Stupid, yeah, but at least I didn't measure the right windows and end up with this problem. That would have made me feel worse. But this was bad enough. Anyway, all is not lost. At hubby's suggestion, I offered the curtains to my 5-year-old daughter. I want to upgrade her bedroom anyhow, and these would replace some Dora Curtains I screwed up a year or whatever ago. =) She was kind enough to say yes. Pictures to come.

Left (up) and right. Too narrow, too short, but they brighten up the room anyway. Anyway. On to another project!! =)