I will not be able to make it to the 2017 RTR. There are too many obstacles in my way at this time.
This really SUCKS. There are so many people I want to meet and so much I need to learn at the RTR. I seem to miss out on a lot of the good things.
There are so many of you who have machines and various types of sewing skills and others with solar to spare and generators that have offered to assist this sewing seminar/class. I hope this sewing thingy can still happen! Hopefully one or two or three folks will step up and make this happen....Please.
Just tonight I thought of a few things I'd like to pass along. My Mama {Granma} started me sewing at 3ys old. My Mother, who the sewing gene skipped never learned to sew. She has for over 50 years often made her curtains. At these times she has used towels and flat sheets for curtains with no sewing involved. Right now she has heavy cream colored towels on her bathroom window and cream colored flat sheets for bedroom curtains. My favorite was the Lavender bedroom set in the late 1950s. If you need a quick bed skirt to hide that stuff under there just use a flat sheet or shower curtainor big table cloth laid out flat under your mattress. Square or rectangular table cloths can also be used. All of these types of "curtain" materials can be found in thrift stores in good shape and very cheap prices.
No Sewing! You just determine how long your curtain needs to be from the rod you'll use at the top to the bottom of your window or where you want the curtain to end. Then pick out towels or sheets long enough to to cover that distance.
The secret is round or oval clip on curtain rings depending on if you use round or flat curtain rods. You can also use steel cable fastened to small screw in eye bolts or wooden dowels that have eye bolts in the ends that will slip over various types of hooks on walls. The dowels can be painted.
Just fold down the top of the "Curtain" and clip on a curtain ring, then do this all across the top. Use as many or as few rings that you want. I usually do every 2 to 4 inches, depends on how wide your window is.
Sheets or towels can be doubled if you need to.
If you have short & wide windows these can be hung cross ways instead up and down. Just fold the sheets lengthwise top to bottom and the fold becomes the "top" where you clip the curtain rings.
Safety pins are my friends.
Right now I have 84in long curtain panels folded up at the bottom to fit my 65in long windows in my bedroom. Where is my sewing machine you might ask...It's at the back of a 10x20 storage unit that's packed wall to wall and 6ft tall. I kid you not!!
These bedroom curtains may end up in the Aliner resewn to fit a 4ftx2ft skylight and 2, 2ftx2ft skylights with hopefully enough to cover at least 2 of the 5 other windows.
One more thing and I'll stop Shower Curtains are Big and have holes in the top, they come in many colors and designs. I buy $10 to $40 shower curtains at my local thrift store for $2 to $4. They make great table cloths, bed throws, curtains, awnings, and slip covers and they are washable just like the towels and sheets! No dry cleaning ever at my house not even the dry clean only stuff. If not washable like me and Queenie it's in the wrong house. I've lost very few of these thrift store bargains by washing them.
Well since I rambled on 'til nearly 4am I reckon I'll go wash dishes. IT WAS QUEENIE'S TURN!!!
Jewellann
