HOW TO MAKE LINED CURTAINS {DIY}

I'm finally back after a little bit of recovery time following my oral surgery. In a previous post I share our guest room makeover. I promised to share the  tutorial on how I made the curtains for this room.

Let's start out by talking about the fabric I used for these curtains.  

Toile Curtains

Curtains and window treatments can be a very costly items for your home. Over the years I've sewed a lot of my window treatments. I've made formal curtains for my living room, bedroom and fun stenciled baseball curtains for our sons' bedroom. I wish I'd taken photos of them but those curtains have come and gone long before my blogging days.


Today I thought I'd share with you the window treatments I made for my dinning room. My inspiration came while shopping at Lowe's. They had them in their curtain display for $20 a valance. Since I would be needing three valances it would add up to over $60. I thought: "I can make them cheaper."

I took my discount coupon and headed over to Jo Ann's Fabric.

Here I could purchase the fabric for half price ~ only $10. I already had white fabric lining leftover in my sewing room from a previous project at home. I then headed over to Wal Mart, and found three tassels for 75 cents each.

Later I wished I had made one for my kitchen as well.

While shopping I came upon this valance from Country Curtains for $49 per valance.

(photo from County Curtains)
You can imagine how excited I was to find it for $2.49 at my local thrift store.

The print is a slightly different toile pattern than my dinning room curtains, but they're not right next to each other to really notice the difference.

Making my curtains a very cost saving and thrifty deal for under four dollars each.

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Drop Cloth Curtains

I've been looking for curtains for our master bedroom for some time now. I had two different pairs of blue curtains home from the store, but I realized how difficult it would be to match the wall color Seascape. After returning the curtains, I thought about getting white ones, but decided instead to try my hand at the drop cloth curtains I've seen on other blogs.

Here's how I made them.

I starting by going to Walmart where I purchased two 6' X 9' canvas painters drop cloth.

They work perfect because they are hemmed on four sides and are cheap @ only $10 each.

2. I washed and ironed them, and then cut them in half lengthwise.
3. I measured the length that I wanted them to be.

4. Next I cut off extra length allowing 2 1/2 inches for the hem.

5. After cutting them to length, I sewed a 1/2 " edge on the side seam and 2 1/2 " hem.

6. I love the texture of the fabric; and the little flecks of blue and brown in the fabric blend perfectly with the coastal theme and colors of the room.

7. I hung them with a new curtain rod purchased from TjMax and clips from a garage sale.
Here they are all finished! It's hard to get a good photo because of glare from the windows.





I still need to sew one more curtain for the double french door that leads from our bedroom to the living room. I would also like to get new wooden or bamboo blinds to replace the plastic ones. I'm loving how the room is coming together. Please return for the soon to be big reveal.
Joy
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