craft room redo: curtains

After a slow start at my new craft room I feel like I'm cruising right along now.  The curtains are done!  I kept envisioning grey and white striped curtains, so I created some with muslin and spray paint.

I bought some white muslin and cut it to size.  I hemmed the top and bottom.  I knew I wanted to use curtain clips, so I didn't have to create a pocket.  Since I had a selvage on each side I did not hem the sides...this was mostly due to laziness (hey, at least I'm honest).

Then I measured and created stripes with masking tape.  The stripes are four inches high so I doubled up some two inch wide masking tape.

Then I sprayed away.  I used a surprising amount of spray paint.  Perhaps I used too much, but it took more than two cans.  

Pulling off the tape revealed perfect stripes.

Here they are hung in my room.  I only did one panel for each window because I don't want to block too much light (light is a major reason for moving my craft room).  

I thought the grey and white could use a punch of color so I added a big red grosgrain ribbon.

The spray paint did make the curtains a bit stiff, but they still fold nicely.

I still have a lot to do before the big move.  The next big "to-dos" are fun...shopping, shopping, shopping!