February 10th 2015 - Shortening curtains
Today's pin inspiration comes from here. A pin on how to shorten curtains, most of the pin is about cutting and stitching, but it does say at the end about just folding and stitching the hem.
The nice dyed curtains of a few days ago are starting their transformation - well one is. One of them is going as a door curtain (when I get as far as adding the old curtain to it - was going to use a towel but already have the door curtain just wrong colour.) and the other one is going on the landing window, but obviously being a door curtain it needs shortening.
But instead of cutting and re-heming and then adding a lining to it I decided to simply fold it in half (still abit long for window but not much) and stitch the sides and the top together. This is easier said than done! The material is very thick cotton and I have bent 1 needle and a handful of pins already, so I am now using a leather needle and still strugling. My thumb is very red from pushing the needle through and I don't have a thimble.
I will get them done and hung up, but I need to go and buy anotehr curtain pole as only got 1 and have 2 curtains to hang. lol. I cant even use the existing one that is up as that is for the curtains with the little hooks on the back, and it will need to be fitted in the toilet with the existing curtain.
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February 5th 2015 - Dying curtains
February 5th 2015 - Dying curtains
Back in January when we went down to Peterborough my sister gave me a pair of really long (longer than door height) cream/beige cotton curtains that were brand new. They were given to her but she had no-where to fit them and asked if I could make use of them - errrrr yes please. I had the thought to dye them a turquoise/teal type colour to go by my front door and the seond be cut to fit the landing window, as my walls are a colour called aqua.
Since then they have been sat on the back of my sofa waiting to be dyed. Well today was their lucky (or unlucky if goes wrong) day. I found this tutorial on pinterest about how to dye curtains, but it was by hand not machine, but its still the base of todays pin. I bought the bahma blue dylon dye on tuesday and set about changing their colour today. I followed the inscturctions on the pack, dye in machine drum, salt on top of dye in drum then the curtains into it. shut the door, turned dial to 40c and hit start.
This is the progress half way through cycle, and they are looking a very nice colour and very near to what I hoped they would look like.
I have put them onto a wash cycle as it says to do. So it's now a waiting game to see how they turn out. Fingers crossed they are still good colour. I do plan to line them to make them thicker and keep the warmth in and I plan to do this with a giant bath towel/sheet in a similar colour - i've dont this to other cutains and it makes them darker and warmer. Not traditional but who cares.
EDIT/UPDATE
They are now in the dryer and are a lovely shade of blue and will look great against my walls, I need to get them lined and get a new pole for them to go on. Will add a pic later once they dry. Really chuffed they worked. Just praying that theres no dye left in machine, have done a blank wash and think i'm going to do a bleach one just to safe, as it my luck that the kids white school shirts will end up with hints of blue. lol!
Back in January when we went down to Peterborough my sister gave me a pair of really long (longer than door height) cream/beige cotton curtains that were brand new. They were given to her but she had no-where to fit them and asked if I could make use of them - errrrr yes please. I had the thought to dye them a turquoise/teal type colour to go by my front door and the seond be cut to fit the landing window, as my walls are a colour called aqua.
Since then they have been sat on the back of my sofa waiting to be dyed. Well today was their lucky (or unlucky if goes wrong) day. I found this tutorial on pinterest about how to dye curtains, but it was by hand not machine, but its still the base of todays pin. I bought the bahma blue dylon dye on tuesday and set about changing their colour today. I followed the inscturctions on the pack, dye in machine drum, salt on top of dye in drum then the curtains into it. shut the door, turned dial to 40c and hit start.
This is the progress half way through cycle, and they are looking a very nice colour and very near to what I hoped they would look like.
I have put them onto a wash cycle as it says to do. So it's now a waiting game to see how they turn out. Fingers crossed they are still good colour. I do plan to line them to make them thicker and keep the warmth in and I plan to do this with a giant bath towel/sheet in a similar colour - i've dont this to other cutains and it makes them darker and warmer. Not traditional but who cares.
EDIT/UPDATE
They are now in the dryer and are a lovely shade of blue and will look great against my walls, I need to get them lined and get a new pole for them to go on. Will add a pic later once they dry. Really chuffed they worked. Just praying that theres no dye left in machine, have done a blank wash and think i'm going to do a bleach one just to safe, as it my luck that the kids white school shirts will end up with hints of blue. lol!
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