It's Curtains For Me

Well, things have been busy here at Huron.  After unpacking and unpacking and unpacking ad nauseam it's starting to feel like home. A home that looks directly into the homes next door. So in addition to unpacking I've also been doing a little sewing.

The kitchen got a straightforward white cotton. I bought this fabric a long time ago and made some pillow cases out of part of it. This remnant hung around all these years just waiting for its big moment to shine. I like it, it feels fresh and old fashioned at the same time.  Plus, after all these years I don't remember the moment of buying it so due to a faulty memory its pretty much like it was free.

This little number is working class red pinstripe ticking. So cute.

It was supposed to go in the kitchen but things didn't go as planned. I forgot about the old adage measure twice cut once. Oops. But if you remember the stuff I just wrote under the picture of the kitchen curtains you'll know that I like the white cotton fabric that ended up there. And this ticking looks super snappy in the little half bath. I think another good option in here would have been black and white toile,

like this. The walls in there are Anchor Gray and the toile would have looked great against that battleship color. But like I keep saying, I cut the red and white stripe wrong. And it fit perfectly in the window so there it stays.

Now I don't expect people to like these checks in the master bedroom. But just like Madonna back in the late 80's, I'm very provocative. I can't help it. These curtains are the fabric equivalent of "Papa Don't Preach." So I'll tell you now,

if you don't like them it's because you don't understand them.