I don’t sew.
I think you should know that.
It’s not that I don’t want to…
I just happen to be terrible at it.
So when I got the idea to make our living room curtains, I was pretty much shaking in my slippers. Because let’s be honest…I was totally in my pjs when I schemed this up.
Then I made these.
We wanted something unique to dress up our living room windows but with a lot of crazy pillows, a bright rug, and eventually a pretty colorful coffee table…we needed something pretty and neutral.
I have been loving the big stripes on our living room wall so I had the genius idea to mirror them on the windows with some burlap & lace.
Once I got to the fabric store, I was paralyzed in fear looking at the two fabrics and wondering how I was going to pull this off. I talked to the poor associates until they made up fake emergencies to escape, then I decided against burlap and against sewing. I chose a gorgeous natural looking fabric than would be easier to work with and bought all of the “iron on” adhesives I could carry.
Once I got home I started all of my measurements to make sure my lines would perfectly mirror the lines on the wall. Then I dove right in.
Y’all I was so excited when I finished that first panel.
I made curtains.
I hung it up to make sure the hem tape wouldn’t crumble under pressure.
Then I excitedly ironed the heck out of two more panels.
For the lace I sprayed the aerosol adhesive and ironed it on using wax paper.
Easy as buying a Honey Baked Ham for Christmas.
Then I threw those bad boys up.
Whomp…whomp….whomp.
In an effort to keep it real with you all, I am showing you how completely crooked those stripes are. I added the blue panels to try and break them up so that maybe you wouldn’t notice the sideways-ness…but who am I trying to fool.
It is a big fat fail.
On the bright side the lace look so incredibly pretty during the day with the sun shining through.
From certain angles it is less noticeable.
I do think that I could salvage them by pulling off the lace and trying them again, but I am being lazy and seeing how much they bother me for now.
Do you think I could ever get the lace completely even?
Should I try a “do-over”?
Or am I making up the crookedness…ha!
Any other creative suggestions….I’m down.
I will spare you all the hilarious out-takes where we tried to get the dogs to sport ‘staches but rest assured that we have renamed our dogs to Enchilada and Taquito. It is totally fitting.
Timothy is real excited about my “bring home more bacon” resolution…he doesn’t care if that means moolah or pig butts. As long as he gets some.
Oh yes….he needs to get on that.