Well, I haven’t totally stopped sewing. After some break-ins in my neighborhood (yay,
not), I finally got around to making a curtain for the windows on my front
door. The two small windows are near the
top of the door, but someone who is 6 feet tall can easily see in (and, as my
giant friend demonstrated when he glared at me from outside the house and
scared me to death, they have). The
problem with this view is that anyone can see straight through the bottom floor
since we have a very open floor plan down there.
So, I already had purchased some black fabric from a
second-hand store and washed it in preparation of tackling this project. My in-laws were due in town and I wanted to
get this done before they arrived. I had
purchased an old pattern for various types of curtains (also from the
second-hand store), so I devoted one Sunday afternoon to this project. The fabric was a little more see-through than
I thought (the second-hand store is a little dark inside, so it was hard to
see), so what I actually did was make the curtain twice as long as I
needed. Instead of making the gap at the
top of the fabric (for the curtain rod to go through), I decided to make the
gap in the middle of the fabric; that way, the curtain would have two sides
that would drape over the curtain rod and the curtain would be much less
see-through. I chose black because the
outside of our door is painted black, so the curtain matches.
