Curtains

Blackout Curtains

As we have changed to daylight savings and its now really light when OB goes to sleep we needed blackout curtains. I priced a few at different stores, and they are really expensive. So I decided to make some!

It was really really easy! I just measured the window, cut the fabric and hemmed it. The eyelet bits at the top came on a tape which I had to sew on to the top of the curtain, then cut the holes and push in the silver bit. The pushing in of the silver circles was quite hard and a few were broken in the process (I had to get my muscly hubby to do most of them).

I was really amazed at how easy they were to make.

What I would do differently next time:

- Have one more eyelet hole so that the right end of the curtain is  dipping back towards the wall.
- Make it a little bit wider.
- Get hubby to put all the push circles in so that I didn't break any.
- Be a bit more patient in sewing so that the stitching was straighter.
- Choose prettier fabric.
-Make two curtains instead of one (I was being lazy so only made one that went across the whole window).
- Make them sooner - they were SO easy!