I worked on finishing Thing 1’s curtains this week, which meant both getting my hubby to put the hooks in the wall and actually making the tie backs.
I had a look at various fabric flower tutorials on the web and decided I liked the this tattered flower the best.
I chose some lovely ‘cotton fabric with Indian print’ (which was what it said on the label… except it was in Danish) that I found at Stof & Stil.
I used some top stitching thread in my bobbin to help gather up the fabric. Top stitching thread is much stronger and therefore less likely to break on you whilst you gather. Technically, I could have pulled out the gathering foot on my serger, but I liked having the added control of doing it by hand.
Here is what the front and back looked like:
I made tubes out of some of the curtain fabric, topstitched, and added D rings to the ends.
And added my carnation to one end of each tie back.
Here’s a close up of the tie back in action:
And the curtains:
And now to get Thing 2’s curtains finished. Or started, for that matter. Though to be fair, I only bought his fabric last week.