I found this lovely sheer patterned fabric at Hancock’s in their home decorating area. This fabric is regularly $9.99/yard and I was able to purchase this fabric for 50% off. Not bad.My doorway is about 30 inches wide. This fabric is close to 60 inches wide. Instead of gathering the fabric, I folded the fabric in half. My selvages are on one side and the fold of the fabric is on the other side. So, now my fabric is 30 inches wide and will fit in my doorway without any shirring or gathering or bunching up. It looks like a flat panel of fabric.
To hold up this fabric panel, I am using a spring tension rod that I found at Home Depot. Walmart also sells this type of rod.
Here, I am turning under and pinning the serged edges to form a long pocket to thread my curtain rod through. This fabric is gorgeous and having the self patterned squares made it easy to line up the folds. Having doubled up the fabric it is not as sheer as a single layer of fabric.
As you can see in the pictures, my panel doesn’t go all the way up to the top of the doorway, nor does it touch the floor at the bottom. That was my plan. I normally shut my door and so the air gets pretty stagnant in my room. The room also gets quite warm. The openings above and below the panel is suppose to let the air flow in and out of my room. It actually works.
My fabric panel is very light and airy. It’s more of a decorative curtain and looks better than keeping my door shut.
I went back to Hancock's and bought more of this fabric. I plan on making a curtain for my sewing machine cart to hide my sewing stuff.
3 comments:
I'm looking at your panel and thinking, "Have to finish my curtains!" They've only been sitting on my shelf for 2 1/2 years now :( . The one panel is up, unhemmed, with no gumption on my end to finish the curtains off. How I wish I could excited about home dec sewing. You'd think I'd be happy about saving a few hundred dollars on these curtains (a beautiful Italian tapestry fabric), but no. Every time I think of them it reminds me of sewing 30 tabs in a row and I have more to go for the other panel. Maybe during the next UFO contest I'll give it a go.
Anyway...your panel looks great! Glad you found a fabric you love for the project too.
I think this little home dec sewing project was a great time filler for me between projects. One way of keeping my sewing mojo alive. I have to say it's not as rewarding as sewing a garment.
In the end, I got the results I wanted without spending a lot of money. It was also a great creative project...no pattern, just winged the measurements.
Grateful for sharing thhis
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