Altered White Curtains

...  A Ruffled Table Runner  ...

 

Made from a pair of plain white curtains

With three rows of ruffles on each end for the dining room table

I cut another panel in half and sewed them into two curtains

for art supply storage under this shelf

So much prettier

than viewing the plastic drawer units they are hiding!

Below, my rolled paper storage behind the curtain 

{don't you love polka dotted papers?!?}

too pretty to hide so will probably move them.

And a little girls McKenna and Saige dolls

are enjoying their new white aprons!

... and there's still some extra fabric ...

I haven't sewn in a quite some time.

I'm finding I don't enjoy the process of cutting out a

pattern and starting from scratch all that much any more.

But altering something?

Oh that is fun!

Last week I added frayed ruffles to a little girls

cream colored dress I found at a kids consignment shop

for $6.  I had previously torn long strips from an old sheet

and laundered them to fray the edges, to use as ribbon.

I gathered a long strip and sewed it to the bottom

of the knit dress, with a narrower one around the neck,

and made a flower from one and pinned it to the waist.

I will share photos of that in another post.

Painting and mixed media is my main focus

but sewing for fun once in a while feels so good!

{especially when it all turns out and needles don't break

or mistakes have to be ripped out.... then I just

put that machine away in a long time out!}

~ Violet ~