Ruffle Knock Off Curtain

I love ruffles! Do you love ruffles? I think after this project I may not love them as much as I did before. Just saying! So I am still not finished with our guest bathroom. Errr I mean um my husband still needs to paint the beadboard he put up. Hopefully. Soon. Please. That doesn't mean I haven't been busy decorating it though. I love this shower curtain from Anthropology, minus the $118.00 price tag of course:

 I also wanted it all cream so mine is all the same color. Which I am sure made it easier, as easy as this project could be. I am not going to sugar coat it people. This took FOREVER!

A little pep talk first shall we? You will eat, sleep, dream ruffles. Be the ruffle. You are the ruffle. Go out there and be the ruffliest (is that a word?) you can be! You can do it! Now go!! Please don't be mad at me if you in fact hate ruffles after this. I may. A little.

I had a cream curtain with a gold design on it already. I cut out the section with the gold on it and sewed the two portions back together:

 I then bought a full size flat sheet in cream at target, on sale of course. I believe it was 7 dollars. I cut out one portion that equaled the part of the curtain I cut out and then divided the rest of the sheet in 7 more equal strips of fabric. Here is a giant pile of fabric. Yay!

 The thicker piece of fabric won't need to be hemmed because it was the bottom portion of the sheet and was already hemmed. So ruffle that by doing a long stitch across the top and pulling the top thread to "ruffle" it. Make to width of curtain and attach to the very bottom.

 Now you will hem the rest of the strips. Just the bottoms though. The tops will be hidden by the layer on top of it. You know? You will also do a zig zag stitch to stop from fraying.

 Keep hemming, ruffling and layering:

 Yep you are still doing it. Keep going! Remmeber be the ruffle!

 ugh!!!!

 Finally! Make sure the very top ruffle is hemmed on the top and bottom.

 Now sit back and enjoy your hard work. Don't you just love those ruffles. You probably won't make anything with ruffles anytime soon. Or maybe you are now a pro at making ruffles. I sure am!

This is the perfect touch to this room (you will just have to believe me at this point). I didn't do the ruffles to the top. I liked the little bit of empty space on the top. You could totally add two more ruffles to make it to the top the. That is if you can handle two more!

A little glimpse of my guest bathroom I can't wait for the full reveal. I just love it!!

Michelle