The biggest project of the school holidays has been finished: sewing curtains for the house. Well, just three pairs, but they were large windows. This was a big job and I'm very relieved to have finished. I used a kind of thick, slightly textured cotton in a natural shade, and lined them with a fine white cotton. I knew I wanted to hand-print the curtains in some way, and I was hoping to achieve a kind of simple, airy effect (we have dark wooden floors and lots of wooden furniture.) In the end I settled on a set of drawings I'd made of fern fronds found in my parents' garden. I drew these on to freezer paper and my dear, sweet and patient Tom cut each one out and used them as a stencil on the newly sewn curtains. We printed the ferns in white ink, running along the bottom of each drop. I found this book recently at a library sale, and the chapter on simple lined curtains was useful to read before beginning.
Actually, this project was quite fun- not at all as bad as I imagined it would be. It helped that we listened to 90's pop songs and drank black coffee while we were working, though. Even so, I think I might take a (long) break before starting work on curtains for the other rooms.
Hope you have a good weekend ahead.
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