Curtains are one of the easiest projects to tackle yourself - no sewing required! You'll need fabric, an iron, and hem tape.
First, decide the length of your curtains. You can measure the window, or use an existing curtain/liner as a guide. Since I didn't want the liner peaking out from behind the curtains, I made them 4 inches longer (also, so they would graze the floor).
The fabric had a white edge I could use as a guide to iron an even edge on the sides.
Enter magical hem tape! Even if you're sewing-inclined, sometimes you don't want a line of thread down the side of a project. You slide the tape between two pieces of fabric and iron... they stick together and you're ready to go!
Once the sides were done, I made an inch hem at the top. I angled the corners in, so there would be a clean edge at the top of my curtains.
I then folded the top over 4 inches to make my rod pocket. I carefully laid hem tape down to stick my first hem to the back of the curtain.
Because the fabric was thick, I turned to iron the back to be sure the hem tape fully melted and stuck the pieces together.
Taadaa! Rod pocket complete. Notice the folded in corner? That way you don't see the fabric peeking out from the front of the curtain if it hadn't lined up perfectly.
Instead of creating matching hems at the bottom, I lined up the tops to make sure both panels were the same length. No surprise, they weren't.
So, with the tops (already with rod pockets) lined up, I laid out the curtains straight to see how off my cutting was at the bottom.
I folded the ends and did a quick iron to make a crease to use as a guide when making the bottom hem.
Not precise, but closer than if I had just put a 2 inch hem on the bottom of each.
I ironed and hem-taped the bottom of each panel using my crease as a guide. Notice how the hem size changes? I'm not very straight with the scissors...
I flipped the corners in, so the front has a clean look. If you're curious, you can see the fabric name below. IKEA baby - cut your own fabric!
Curtains hung! Forgive the bad iPhone picture (nursery #2 post coming soon)!
I got enough fabric to do two panels and extra to do bolster pillows and whatever my brain thinks up.
