Kitchen window switcheroo

Remember this window that I covered up one day while I was getting ready for our impromptu open house?

Yess... well that very same window was pretty sad for 6 months after I did that. Okay, I truly and whole heartily believe that any window is better with some toile on it but c'mon. I only used two tacks and besides that? The print was sideways! :) But, I'm a "use what you have girl". And, on that day I did just that. Today... I have some thing else! :) Welcome home, blue and cream ticking, welcome home. Two panels 18 inches long, I needed two because with the pleats I made, one wouldn't cover the whole window.

Geesh I'm good at this huh. Let's just move onto the pictures.

Anyone who sews should avert your eyes. This might make you sick. Everyone else, whip out your glue guns & hemming tape and lets get goin! I wanted the pleats pretty big so I measured and by measuring I mean, counting the lines in the print. :) 10 seemed good, 11 looked better. Yes one whole line made the difference. No joking aside. :)

Grab it, put a dab of glue and fold it. Then another 11 lines and I made another fold the opposite way. So on and so on.

Till you get to the painful end of the road. I was half way there and out of fabric. Shoot, huh?

No grab the other piece of fabric and start another pleat.

Yep that's just how I roll. You can't even tell it's two pieces, well.. Now that I told you, you probably will. But, we're in the tree of trust I wouldn't lie to you.

Ahh looks good. Just needs a nice ironing. But, hmm it was missing something. A little pizazz. I didn't have any trim around but I did have a pound of jute twine. It needed to be a little more substantial than one little piece, so I took three and braided them together.

Like my little make shift braiding station? It doubled as a jump rope that day!

Once the mile long braid was done I took my hemming tape a started ironing it to the end of the panel.

This is when I cussed myself out for not thinking about doing this first. Ughh. But you know I was not about to rip it all apart and start over. But if you're thinking of doing this. Just put the trim on first, it wont mess up your pleats that way. It wasn't too bad but, eh live and learn.

Once it was done I took a 3 dollar rod from Target and hiked it up about 6 inches above the window and my cabinets. With such a small kitchen we're working with anything that can add the illusion of height to a room, I'll take it!

Stand back in awe. A little nautical, a little fun. I like it!

Amanda's having a party! Do it, Go there! Plus she got a makeover. Lovin' it! :)

Transformation Thursday