Hello All!! Today I am sharing the method I use to make curtains. You know, to get the real life (as I can!) look of flowy, pulled back drapes. I've been combing my fabric stash all summer looking for just the right fabric for the dining room of White Pine Cottage. The room itself is long and narrow so I felt it needed a larger scale set of drapes to sort of pull the wall to you.
I follow a gal on YouTube named Angieaug and she is the one who taught me to make my own curtain pleater very easily and I have used it many times since. You will see it in the pictures below.
Today I saw an instagram post, which I can't find now ugh, that had a set of velvet curtains and thought... where do I have some velvet??? Then I remembered that I recently bought a set of hair scrunchies from the dollar store that are velvet! I thought the pink one would work but decided that the champagne one would be better for this room. So I cut the fabric and the elastic inside, ironed the fabric and cut it in half. Turns out it was the perfect length for my curtains.
I placed the fabric onto my pleater and gave it a good dousing of hair spray. Then I used other skinny stick pieces to push the fabric (not-so-neatly) into the pleater and dried it for about five minutes with my hair dryer. Next I stood the pleater up and pinned it to a block of foam, sprayed with hair spray and pinned the heck out of the billowy bottom of the curtains. Then used my hair dryer to dry. This method works so well and is so easy. The whole project took about thirty minutes.
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