Sewing with Grammy 101

Last Friday I took a much needed "mental health day" from school and tagged along with the hubby on his drive to Georgia to go hunting.  After he had a sales meeting in Chattanooga, we were off on the trek down 75 to God's country-as Brad calls it.  I took the opportunity of him passing through Atlanta to get dropped off at Grammy's house (my mom's mom) for a weekend of sewing curtains, pillows, and anything else I could think of.

**The fabric I took and used to make curtain for this house is actually the fabric that I bought for the other 'first' house.  Luckily it will all still work in the house now and besides having extra fabric, we aren't out anything.  Talk about lucky!**

My Grammy is the bomb.com period, but she is definitely the queen of sewing.  While I was growing up Grammy made ALL my Halloween costumes.  I was every Disney Princess under the sun, and Grammy made every single one of them from scratch.  And apparently the sewing of my clothes started much earlier than just my yearly Halloween costumes.  Grammy let me in on a secret-she even made my mom's maternity clothes when she was pregnant with me...And wait for it-made us matching outfits when I was just a newborn!  That's right-get over it.  My mom and I were styling together long before I had a say in it!

Anywho, I have never sewed anything in my life, not a button, not a hem, nada.  So, the idea of sewing curtains, adding trim, and making pillows was S.C.A.R.Y to me.  I would like to take more of the credit, but aside from making a LOT of pillows, making and messing up the kitchen window valance, Grammy did most of the harder stuff especially if it required that it needed to be sewn in a straight line.  That is one thing I didn't seem to master over the weekend..all in good time young grasshopper.

So, here are some pictures.  Once we actually get a house and get moved in, I am going to share pictures of all the finished products!  Woohoo!

The 84 inch panel for the master bedroom window...preeetttyyy:

Same panel after measuring and ironing the hem (so it is easier to sew):

Me (with my new hair color, might I add)-concentrating VERY hard-I'm trying not to jack this thing up-we had NO extra fabric:

Finished product-beautiful panel for the master bedroom window...too bad this window was only halfway done at this point:

This is a coordinating pillow that I made for the master bedroom...same colors, circular pattern, but not too matchy matchy-this fabric was originally purchased for a window treatment for the master bathroom in the 'first' first house:

This is the fabric that will be in the living room and the kitchen-this is the valance for the kitchen window:

After a long weekend of sewing & playing in Grammy's yard-this was exactly how we were feeling:

So, this was just a snap shot of the sewing that took place this past weekend.  The master bedroom is completely finished from window treatments to pillows.  The kitchen valance is finished, but the living room and "man-room" curtains had to stay with Grammy to get finished up (we aka she is putting trim on these because we mixed two fabrics-crazy, I know).  

I bought all this fabric-over 30 yards-for $150 at this fabric warehouse close to mom and dad in North Carolina.  Their fabric is beautiful, heavy, and inexpensive aka my favorite aspect of it all.  Nothing I bought was more than $4 a yard...can you believe that?  They said to get the price you would've paid at an actual fabric store you should multiply what you paid by 10!  Sheesh...I would say I got one heck of a deal!

You know the famous quote from Field of Dreams-if you build it they will come?  Well, I'm hoping the same is true for my house and curtains...If you sew the curtains your house will come soon?  Wishful thinking?...possibly.