Color Block Curtains

I have kind of been on a sewing kick for the last little bit, and I have been loving it!

Since the Spring months have started the sun is naturally rising a little earlier each day.

Both of my boys are early risers anyways, but I wanted to make curtains for my toddlers' room so I could get him to sleep as long as possible...so until around 6:30-7...
This project was a lot of trial and error, I was kind of making it up as I go.

If you follow me through any of my social media outlets, you will recognize this picture :)
These are the two original fabrics I was planning on using, but as I got into making the curtains things kind of changed a little...you'll see.

Here are all of my measurements:

The window is 57" tall and 47" across.

I made two curtain panels that are 60" tall and 26 1/2" across (or 53" together) this way I had a couple of inches on each side and above and below.

 So the pieces of fabric I started out with were:

Dark blue 44" x 54"

Royal blue 7" x 27"

Orange 15" x 44"

Dark Blue 17" x 27"

Muslin (for the back of the curtains) 54" x 60"

I will show you how I cut everything and how the measurements worked.

To start, I had purchased the dark blue (44" x 54") and orange chevron (15" x 44") from JoAnn's. I laid the fabric out on my son's floor and realized I wanted a little something more to it, but I didn't want to make another trip to the store, so I started pulling out scraps of other fabrics to see if I had anything else that would work.

I had some royal blue fabric (7" x 27") left over from some Avengers capes, so I started playing around with that.

I folded the dark blue fabric in half, lengthwise, and pressed it so I had a nice crisp line down the middle.

I then cut down the line with my scissors.

(I have no idea why the fabric looks like such a different blue in this picture, I tried using my other camera, but it didn't turn out right...but it's the same fabric I promise!)

Anyways, after cutting it I had two panels of dark blue that were 27" across and 44" long.

 I folded the royal blue in half lengthwise and cut out 2 strips measuring 3 1/2 " x 27" 

 The orange chevron fabric took a little extra time to make sure the pattern was even all the way across. I didn't notice it at first, but it had been cut unevenly at the store, so I had to cut a straight line myself.

I then pinned it to the royal blue and sewed across using a straight stitch giving myself a 1/4" seam allowance.

 Each time I sewed a seam I would quickly press it to give the fabric nice clean lines.

 I then pinned the royal blue to the dark blue and sewed across using a straight stitch.

This is what the first panel looked like once I had finished.
I then realized I didn't have enough of the orange chevron fabric for the other side, so I needed to head back to the store. Unfortunately, the orange fabric was nowhere to be found! It had vanished. And I had only been there two days earlier!

I knew I had some extra dark blue fabric at home, so I decided to just cut the orange fabric in half (making the orange strip 7 1/2" x 27"), and I would add more of the dark blue to the bottom.

  I cut two dark blue strips 8 1/2" x 27" each and sewed it to the orange chevron fabric giving myself a 1/4" seam allowance.
I then sewed the other curtain panel.
(Again with the weird coloring in the picture...)

Flip the panels over and place your back fabric down. This is where I used the muslin.

Fold the edges over, about 1/4", and pin.

 Sew around the whole curtain panel.

 I then turned the panels over and placed the rod across the top.

Yes, the rod is a PVC pipe. (I will post that tutorial later!)

 I already had this brown ribbon on hand which made my life easier!

 I cut strips of the ribbon and glued them to the back of the curtain panels with a hot glue gun.

I used the 'rod' as a guide.

I placed the ribbon strips every few inches, I didn't really measure I just guessed. 

And there we have it, finished curtains!

Stay tuned because I will post about how the curtain rod and hardware to hang it cost less than $3.00! Yep!