I needed some inspiration for a post today and I remembered that Skip To My Lou has a little “get together” every Monday where you can post projects that you’ve been working on recently. I thought I’d share a project that has been a LONG time coming.
I’ve been trying to come up with an inexpensive and easy way to make curtains for all of these windows.
I got this great idea after seeing Trish from Life to the ‘T’ make beautiful burlap curtains.
These curtains from Ballard Designs were her inspiration:
The only problem is they cost $40 – $60 per panel! WOW!
I didn’t need long curtains like the one’s pictured above but I thought this might work well for valances in our sunroom.So I ran out and bought $15 worth of burlap at Joann’s. Got home cut some fabric, ironed on some stitch witchery, frayed the ends and voila! Simple, airy, natural, window valances! (and, yes I really should iron them!)
I might add some other details to the curtains later, but for now I have to finish it up, I still have to finish curtains for 9 more windows! Lots of work to do but it was so easy I hope to finish it up today!
I really love this table cloth too. If I have leftover fabric I may have to do a table cloth as well.
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Wow…those curtains are so beautifully simple! I love them! Thanks for this post! And thanks for linking to Connect MEme Monday!
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Love this idea! We only have 7 windows in our sun room, but ran into the same problem: didn’t like the curtains we had, but didn’t have the money to dress 7 windows. I may snag this idea!
It is so very easy. I wouldn’t say it’s a neat process, which explains why we have YET (yes, it’s been over a year) finished all of our curtains for the sunroom. I’m hoping to finish them up in the next few weeks and post pictures of the updated room. Finally!