#I will make her a billowy curtain if she wants one but I'm going to need to go fabric shopping | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

tj-crochets · 2 years ago

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So, some backstory. I have been trying to get the measurements to make this curtain (and the second, yet to be made curtain) for my grandma for three months. I finally got the window measurements when my mom went to visit her for her birthday, and my mom said to add a few inches to the window measurements to make sure the curtains fully cover the windows. I sent my grandma this picture, and she called me to tell me I “hadn’t accounted for billowing” and that curtains need to be much wider than windows so they can billow??? I talked her into accepting this curtain as-is so she can try it and see how much wider she wants the final curtain, and then I can use the ratio of the first curtain to the replacement to figure out the dimensions of the curtain for the second window

The curtain for my grandma’s door is almost done!! All I have to do is sew closed the opening for turning, wash it, and get it in the mail to my grandma

#the person behind the yarn #I love my grandma and we occasionally have communication difficulties like this #like...are billows for curtains a thing????#it's for her laundry room it's not a curtain that will be visible to visitors #it's just so cats stop startling the heck out of her by staring in the window as she walks in #I don't think it needs to billow #I will make her a billowy curtain if she wants one but I'm going to need to go fabric shopping #because this curtain was made using fabric from my other grandma's stash and I'm out of yellow and almost out of blue #I'm just not a pastel-y person lol

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