I Finished My Curtain

Curtains are fun to make.  It's just like making a quilt top, and it feels like cheating because you can stop right there without making the sandwich, doing the quilting, the binding, the sleeve, and the label.

This was my starting point.  Aside from the focus fabric, I planned on using these nine fabrics along with white.

 I wound up dropping three of them and adding six others.
 

The fabric you see at the top and bottom is kind of unusual.  I thought it was regular old cotton when I bought it, but it had a lot of stretch in it (which I didn't notice at the time).  It's not a knit, so I'm not sure what it's problem is.  The strips were originally twice as wide; I decided to fold them in half to make them stronger before adding more blocks to them.

I picked fabrics that read mostly as a solid.  After I sewed each seam, I top stitched it to keep it a little neater once it's laundered, and also to give it a more finished look.

Orange was one of the new colors I added.  I love the Marimekko-style of that orange floral.  It fits perfectly with the vibe of the focus fabric.

I didn't make it very wide, because I wanted that center panel to be very visible.  If it was much wider, it would get lost in the folds.

I found some nice white rings that complement the modern retro style of the curtain.