New (Shower) Curtains!

When trying to find new curtains for the living room, I had the idea that I could use a shower curtain and split it into panels in order to make curtains out of it. Here are the steps that I took to make them and how they turned out.

This is what I started with:


This is what the old curtains looked like. You can see the kitty going into the light:


First step was to cut the curtain in half. Then I pinned the hem to make it ready to sew. I made the hem quite small since I wanted the curtains to be as wide as possible.


I then sewed the hem all the way down.


I debated on how to hang these and considered using show curtain hooks but decided that I didn't want them to look like shower curtains that I had split. So I took the top:


Folded it over:


Pinned it:




And sewed it:


Then I hung them up and found them to be wonderful and exactly what I wanted!


As you can see, they match the couch pillows.


There you go, instead of paying $17/panel for regular curtains. I paid $16 for a shower curtain that made two panels. Love those savings!