I had great fun yesterday rootling round a Needlework fair with Flobear and Puzzler, spending an enjoyable couple of hours looking at all things crafty ...
There was a woman selling vintage fabrics and bits and bobs and I spied some lovely paisley furnishing fabric thinking theres a lot of that, it would make a great backing fabric ... The lady said it used to be a curtain and part of it was a bit faded and then produced its brother from behind the stall ... so I paid my £7 and put them in my basket with ideas of Indian inspired quilts swirling in my head.
When I got home and looked at the fabric I realised there was simply oodles of it, indeed they had been curtains and the woman had kindly removed all the headings, lining and stitching .... I took them upstairs and ...
Well peeps, they couldnt really have been much similar to the pattern on the poor Miss Havershams in my bedroom, just a slightly different colourway and with a border on each edge .....
So it seems I have inadvertently found my 'new' bedroom curtains!!!
I measured them this morning and each is at least 98" long x one width wide !
That's more than enough for me to trim down to take out any cuts the lady's seam ripper made when dissembling them.
It looks like, from the remaining threads that they were used as a short curtain whereas I will be hanging them as a long curtain ....
And here I need your help .... I have a very good and helpful Interior Design shop in town who will sell me linings, headings and such ... But Please give me any advice, tips etc about how to remake them as curtains.
There are no selvages
First Question .... They smell a bit musty, which will probably disappear just from being out in a warm house but if I wanted to wash them, as all the stitching has been removed, I think they would fray terribly ... Any advice ????