We've been in our new home for eight months.  In my studio, I still had "temporary" curtains on the windows because I just couldn't decide what I wanted.  I was at a moving sale a couple of weeks ago.  There was a new Ralph Lauren queen size ruffled sheet that caught my eye.  It didn't really match anything in the house, so I used the excuse "we always need sheets at the cabin", and bought it for a dollar.  I washed it and had it sitting in the laundry room.  Late one night, I walked by the sheet, looked at it and my creativity kicked into gear.   "I wonder if that sheet would fit the patio window in my studio?"  YIPPEE!!!  It was wide enough, but too long.  So I measured and cut the sheet in half and then cut off the excess length.  I had a package of black curtain rings with clips and a black curtain rod that I was going to use for the valance in my hubby's office.  I decided to use them on the patio window instead.  I dragged out my sewing machine and sewed straight seams (my kind of sewing) to finish off the cut edges.   I just love it when one of my projects clicks and turns out how I envision it in my mind.  Here's the finished patio window.

I decided to make a valance for the smaller window with the leftover sheet.  Again, I sewed all the unfinished edges and hung it on the curtain rod.  Boring!  A straight edged valance?  Just didn't look right.  Then I remembered our neighbor at the cabin and the valances she made with ribbon accents.  I grabbed my roll of 115605 Basic Black 5/8" Grosgrain Ribbon.  I tied the ribbon on the curtain rod into two separate loops.  This created a "waterfall" valance.  BINGO!!!  That is exactly what the window needed.  The black ribbon coordinates with the black curtain rod and rings on the patio window.

The curtains match the wood mouldings and the paint on the walls.  These curtains were "sew" simple to make!   My Stampin' Up! ribbon sure came in handy!

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