I made myself a ruffle shower curtain!
Like 4 years ago, I found this tutorial on Moda Bake Shop. I thought the ruffle shower curtain was adorable and I decided to make my own! I am definitely not the speediest crafter, but I am determined. I bought fabric for the project more than a year ago and got around to cutting the strips a couple months after that. Finally, about 2 weeks ago, I sat down at the sewing machine, determined to finish the curtain, no matter how long it took.
And boy, did it take awhile. It was so much sewing and pinning and sewing! I definitely recommend splitting the sewing up into a couple of days. There may or may not have been a handful of curse words spoken at my house that day.
But I finished!
And, after giving myself a couple of days to forget the awfulness of the sewing marathon, I decided I kind of really love how it turned out.
Like 4 years ago, I found this tutorial on Moda Bake Shop. I thought the ruffle shower curtain was adorable and I decided to make my own! I am definitely not the speediest crafter, but I am determined. I bought fabric for the project more than a year ago and got around to cutting the strips a couple months after that. Finally, about 2 weeks ago, I sat down at the sewing machine, determined to finish the curtain, no matter how long it took.
And boy, did it take awhile. It was so much sewing and pinning and sewing! I definitely recommend splitting the sewing up into a couple of days. There may or may not have been a handful of curse words spoken at my house that day.
But I finished!
And, after giving myself a couple of days to forget the awfulness of the sewing marathon, I decided I kind of really love how it turned out.
Just for reference purposes, I got the idea from the Bake Shop, but I kind of did it my own way. First of all, I didn't use a jelly roll. I'm far too cheap. Plus I wanted the fabric to match my bathroom sign, so I just cut my own fabric to jelly roll dimensions (want an excuse to buy pinking shears? Here it is!). And on the tutorial, the lady sews her strips directly onto a shower curtain. I wanted mine to be washable so that I didn't have to throw it away when it got nasty, so I sewed my strips onto an old sheet that I measured, and hemmed. I made button holes at the top for shower curtain hooks. I hung this up with a cheap plastic shower curtain behind it.
Here's a close up:
Here's a close up:
Definitely not perfect, but I still really love it. I mean, it has ruffles...and the only thing I love more than ruffles is sparkles.