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<\/a><\/p>\nI knew the backing fabric on the curtains had faded over the last 3 years, but I didn’t realize just how badly<\/em> it had faded until I took them down to wash them.\u00a0 Um, yeah.\u00a0 This was navy blue at one point?<\/p>\n To make these look better–and to increase their light-reducing capabilities–I decided to add “blackout” fabric to the back of each curtain panel.\u00a0 Seemed simple enough (she said, naively).<\/p>\n It actually worked pretty well for the smaller curtains on the sides of the trailer.\u00a0 I sewed the blackout fabric directly to the back of the curtains between the hems.\u00a0 Perfect?\u00a0 No, but functional.<\/p>\n When I took a good look at the larger<\/em> curtain panels for the front and back windows, however, I just wasn’t sure that this was going to work at all<\/em>.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude41\u00a0 Since these curtains were SO uneven and SO frayed when they came out of the washing machine (I didn’t know, at the time, to turn under raw edges!), I decided to rip out the seams and start over.\u00a0 That’s<\/em> when I realized that I’d used the absolutely tiniest stitch length ever<\/em> when I’d made these, and there wasn’t going to be a good way to pick apart the seams in this lifetime….<\/p>\n Okay, fine.\u00a0 I’d recently seen the same fabric in a store, so I figured the best solution would be to buy more of it and totally re-make the front and rear curtains–with the blackout lining put in correctly.\u00a0 I made a late afternoon trek over the mountain to the store, and–SURPRISE!–the fabric was no longer available.\u00a0 Not good.<\/p>\n Since I was facing the prospect of making new curtains, I figured I might as well change it up a little bit.\u00a0 I bought a bold, colorful, and wildly floral indoor\/outdoor fabric that I thought would be cool to use for our “bathroom” door, and a solid medium blue fabric for the new curtains.<\/p>\n As large as the floral fabric was, I knew I’d need room to spread it out and cut it, so I took it to my classroom at school.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n