Up-cycled bathroom curtains and Make your own scrip fabric

Today's project is two fold, the main purpose was to up-cycle curtains, but I also made my own scrip fabric.  I can't believe I ever spent so much on the stuff before.... because now I know I can make it at a quarter of the cost!

For those of you who are moving pros know that furnishing and decorating a new house always requires a lot of curtains.  This is good and bad.  Good because curtains are great, they add a lot to a room but bad because they cost about a million dollars if you want the amazing ones and about half a million for the target version.  So instead of selling a kidney to afford crazy curtains at this point, I am doing my usual up-cycling.  I have plans for a few other rooms but here is my bathroom version.

{Here is the final product}

Note the purple walls were not our choice...the house is a rental.

(I wouldn't say I hate them but hubs sure does!)

Anyways the curtains were a garage sale find--one dollar for four panels.  This is where I admit I must be a slight hoarder because I picked these up wayyy before I knew I would have a window in the bathroom of our Wisconsin rental home that would need something like this.  Unfortunately when I use the things I hoard it only motivates me to hoard more..... watch for me on that Hoarders tv show in a few years!

(sorry about the picture...night and day lighting differences apparently make it look like I repainted the purple bathroom to a new shade of purple....hummm whyyy would I do that?!?  Anyways I digress, so the originals had purple embroidery stuff on them....  I would say my tastes are a bit more shabby so I decided to add a personalized ruffle.

How to make your own:

1-Cut strips of fabric, sew one long straight line down the middle of your fabric on the loosest straight setting on your sewing machine you can find.  I then when to my computer and came up with a scrip-y messy looking font and so special bathroom words....brush and floss is what I came up with.  Yes that is right, in scrip-y font on my bathroom curtain ruffle it says brush and floss---because I LOVE to personalize everything I make (and just in case you forgot...I love teeth).  I used the citra solv technique I have used here and here to transfer the image.

2-Find the ends of your straight line you sewed and pull one end to create your ruffle.

3-Pin and sew your ruffle into place

What do you think?  

Can you make out the brush and floss????  

I think the wall looks lonely all bare like that, if I had to guess I would say a brush and floss framed something or another will be joining the ruffle curtains in no time!

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