Rugby, anyone??

These window treatments have been bouncing around in my head for the last 6 months or so.  I was dying to incorporate some sort of rugby stripe into the room and this is what I finally came up with.  One thing is for sure, I am NEVER going to repurpose old curtains into something new.  I had picked up a few packages of red Pottery Barn panels at the outlet for cheap with the idea of cutting them up for a future project.  That was mistake #1.  None of the lines were straight and it was a mess trying to get everything to line up the way I wanted it to.  Mistake #2 was trying to use the old boards from my former window treatments.  They were 2" too wide so I had to take them all apart, have a nice neighbor cut them to the right size, and then rebuild them from scratch again.  

I had a hard time getting a good picture of the three windows in the room but here they are.  I am SO glad to have this project done!

fun felt applique

I have been doing a lot of the fabric letter appliques and wanted to experiment with felt.  Some friends of mine (who are sisters) both had babies within a week of each other so these were a perfect little gift for them.  They have a "J" thing going.......now into the third generation.  After ironing them on, I thought they needed a little something extra so I hand-stitched around the letters with embroidery thread and I think they look a lot better.  Although, next time I think I would have done the hand-stitching before the adhesive because it was a pain sewing through all the layers.