Wide Striped Curtains

I don't know about you, but I am loving wide striped curtains right now. When I was looking for things for the baby nursery I knew I had to have some, so I started looking. I looked and looked and every time I searched them on the internet I only found ones that people had made. Wait, I did see that you could by them on Etsy for $115 per panel, no thank you. Many people painted the stripes themselves but said the paint was not forgiving if you mess up. I decided I would sew my stripes on for 3 reasons; 1- the chances of me messing up, I'd say very possible. If I'm going to do it I want it to look right. 2-I was worried the paint would change how the fabric lays. 3- 50% off coupon at Joann's.

Here's how I made them.

I wanted them to be long and go from ceiling to floor. I picked up some curtains at Ikea, the 118" length. These curtains were longer and wider than I needed so the first thing I did was size the curtains to what I wanted. This was easy. Measure your window, I added a few inches on each side that way the curtains would gather a little. As I mentioned earlier I wanted mine to hang from ceiling to floor, that was about 96".

Measure, cut, iron, sew.

Easy Peasy.

The next step is to get your stripes ready. I wanted each stripe to be 12" obviously alternating white and (I picked) brown. This part will test your math skills, pull out your phone calculators ladies :) I knew that I had 96" to cover and I wanted 12" stripes so 96 divided by 12, leaves me with 8 sections. I want 4 white and 4 brown.

Once you know how many of your colored stripes that you need get 'ta cuttin'! Obviously cut a few inches wider and longer than your panel so that you give yourself enough to hem. The measuring tape is your friend on this project. I went ahead and folded over all my edges, measured and ironed so they were the size I wanted. If you are doing this for 2 panels you will be doing this process 8 times, 4 for each panel. This is not the quickest project but it is totally worth it.

Once you've got all the stripes ironed and ready to go get out your handy measuring tape, measure every 12 " and pin accordingly. Once you are all pinned you are good to sew.

Sew all those stripes on and then just admire your handy work. All in all this project cost me a whopping $37.00. I don't know about you but I'd say that is a great deal!