Last year, whilst I was lurking in a local fabric store, I found some Las Vegas print fabric featuring the iconic "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign as well as various hotel neon signs. I had to buy it for him and decided I could make him a pair of curtains for his man cave.
Fast forward a year and the fabric was still sitting in my fabric stash. I never seemed to have the time to actually make the planned curtains, there was always too much other sewing to be done or just other things in life generally. It eventually dawned on me that I was avoiding making them as I wasn't actually sure how to make a pair of lined curtains. I had never made any, in fact I had only ever made one pair of curtains before and they weren't lined.
Having finally realised why I was putting off making the curtains, I decided to look on the internet for instructions on how to make them. Not sure why I didn't think of that earlier, as when I did a search there was plenty of instructions.
The first site I tried was We're In Stitches which gave really good detailed instructions on how to measure your windows, pattern match your fabric and eventually sew your curtains. I quickly realised that I couldn't actually be bothered to read all of the instructions, sometimes it is just easier to watch someone show you.
My next stop was You Tube. I found a fantastic video by movingcurtains.com which gave really good, step by step instructions from start to finish. To be honest, I don't know what I was worrying about really, it made perfect sense when I knew how. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrg5vI6m0Ug)
Having decided that I was far to lazy to hand stitch the hems of the curtains, I also found a really good You Tube video showing my how to blind hem with my Brother sewing machine. It worked perfectly and took minutes to do. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yq73-gRUko)
The curtains took my four hours to cut out and stitch in the end, plus the year of thinking about it! I am really pleased with the result ...
