Innovative craftspeople use scraps of fabric for quilts and other projects. My honey suggested window dressing for the naked kitchen windows. My quilting aunt decided to take a summer off from projects. When a friend of a friend of hers cleared out a home for a nursing home move and gave her the bags of fabric, my aunt thought the purple fabrics looked like me and passed them on again.
The date portion of the enterprise happened in two settings. One Sunday afternoon, my hone and I examined, read and judged our favorites designs from books checked out of the library. Creating the pattern from a picture fell to me (playing to my strength). Supervision and assistance went to my honey.
The decision making spilled over from afternoon into late evening. We debated environmental control, trapping heat and opening the curtains wide for solar heating and lighting before we decided on the design. The fabric scraps provided an additional challenge, instead of solid panels I had to piece them together in such a way that it appeared intentional.
Then we spend a morning snipping, sewing and adding blows. With only time and skill with no purchase of new fabric or supplies and keeping waste to a very minimum, we hung designer pieces of window art. Good news. Even though I have design experience, anyone can make curtains with a pattern. Go ahead and look at the books at the library, there are even pattern books in the sewing section.
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