Kiersten’s Blog

When we first moved into our place, it needed to be fumigated for termites.  We had been in less than a week when we had to move out.  We spent that weekend with Taylor’s parents, where his mother helped me make curtains and/or valances for almost all of our windows and patio doors.  When I say “helped” I mean she did most of the work and I tried to figure things out here and there.  They all turned out really cute except for the valance in our bedroom.  I was really excited about it when we bought the fabric, but once I put it up, I hated it.  So I went to the store and bought some fabric that I thought would work better.  I LOVE the new stuff I bought.  It’s my favorite window in the house (I think).  I’m going to attempt to explain how I made this super cute and easy valance.

I started out by cutting a piece of fabric large enough for the size of window I was decorating.  Since I didn’t have one, I had to sew two pieces together.  I just lined them up so the pattern matched.  I can’t even tell where the seam is unless I look really hard.  Then I took some foam board that I bought and cut it to be the right height of the valance I was making.  Since you can’t buy foam board long enough to make it the right width, I hot glued it and stapled it together end to end.  I then wrapped the fabric around the foam board and hot glued it on.  Taylor already hung the rod, so I took it down and hot glued the back of the valance to the curtain rod.  Easy peasy.  Really, it didn’t take much time (or crafting skills) at all and I absolutely love it.

I had some leftover fabric from my valance and curtains so I made a square wood frame.  Okay, I bought the frames from Ikea and just assembled them.  I then stretched the fabric over them and stapled it to the back to make fabric squares.  I hung them in our stairwell.  I just love that fabric.  I wonder what else I can use it for.