Serendipity…

So when I’d planned out all these curtains last year, apparently I made a mistake in calculating for cloth – I picked a very nice denim fabric for the bedroom curtains, but I didn’t get enough of it. I suck.

Now, I could just extend the curtains with some extra unpatterned fabric in a complementary color (I did this for our dining room and it worked beautifully), but that would involve a trip to the store, and more measuring, and more sewing. Yuck.

I’m not sure what I was thinking when I bought the fabric originally, but no matter.

A solution was already in our cupboard, and it’s one which makes my job in making the curtains even easier.

See, when we lived in LA, we had a bunch of curtains that were crappy, but sufficient. But we had no kitchen curtains, so my mom went out when we were sleeping and got us some, because I’d mentioned that we needed them. C disagreed about putting them up (and I admit, the pattern is not my favorite) and so they stayed in their package, coming with us here but never being used. Granted, the fabric is thinner than what I got for the bedroom, and I don’t like the pattern as much, but they are also blue (something we wanted), and they are larger than the length I need for the bedroom windows. And they are hemmed.

What this means is that while I won’t get exactly what I wanted for the bedroom windows, I can get close, and I only have to cut two sides of the material. And not hem it. So my square-cutting nightmare will apply to the lining, but it will be significantly less for the fabric everyone sees. Joy for all around.

Yeah, I’m not happy about committing to a pattern I like less, but it matches, and more importantly, these bastards will get done.

File under: how to make curtain-making a religious experience.