September 4, 2009

• Sewing Eyelet Curtains

  I was in Fabric Corner with their 40-percent-off monthly e-mail in my pocket on the next-to-last day of the month when I turned the corner and encountered a roll of white eyelet. “Are my troubles over?” I thought. Could white eyelet solve one problem in my life?

  It looks to be so — that problem about the unreachable, hard-to-clean mini-blinds over the kitchen sink. And maybe, even with my sale coupon I can buy enough so both kitchen curtains could match!

  The road is never so easy. Sewing curtains is usually the classic easy-but-rewarding beginners’ project. Using eyelet teaches that the devil is in the details. It took four tries to find the right tension — relax, relax, turn the sewing machine’s tension knob up to seven — but the real trick was using a needle for knits. Eyelet is woven, but it snags every quarter of an inch with a universal needle.

  Insert digression about following the rules versus responding to the situation here.

  Anyhow, the first side seam is pretty puckered, the other seams are better, and just because it’s up in the window doesn’t mean it’s finished. Onward.

  

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