Here is what I need to know. I plan on making a matching set of curtains for my sewing room. And yes, because it is a quilting/sewing room I plan to quilt them. Now before you say "double up on your medication, dude", the windows in question are mostly small. In totality, the whole fabric volume size is not as large as a queen sized quilt. Albeit made up of 6 small pieces that would equal that size. So, the question before the jury is: How to make these bad girls? I don't think I would want to use regular batting as that might make them too stiff and not supple and capable of folding up into itself, without a great deal of tugging. I am thinking of using maybe a single muslin filler, or something similar, so that they would hang like curtains, and not quilts. Yet they would obviously be quilts, because of the fabrication. I would be interested in anybody's ideas who might have done such a project and lived to tell the tale. The pattern will be a nine patch, so that I don't devolve into slobbering senility, doing this whole thing, and operating on the principal of K.I.S.S. I also love the nine patch design and would favor that pattern under any circumstances. You see, this is the sort of thing that happens, when my wife goes away for 10 days and I am left to my own devices. Nobody, except the dog, to keep me in line. And she isn't much of a disciplinarian, being as I know how to open the door where the dog food is kept, and she doesn't. This probably doesn't qualify as an extreme makeover, in and of itself, but I also have been spending time in the wood shop. I have been inlaying wood into one of the layout tables and I love the result. The years of use had done some damage to the finish, what with pins and other dings, so I knew I would need to refinish it. Well It just so happened that I got a new set of router bits and decided to try them out on the table in question. The table top is Cherry and the inlay wood is Poplar. It gets a greenish cast to it when it is varnished, and I loved the effect of the two colors together. This table is used as a layout table and is only used when I have cut out a lot of pieces to sew or quilt. The next table being considered, is the main sewing machine table. That one is Cherry also, will get a band of Poplar, around the edges about an inch or two in from the edge, and that will be connected to another band that will surround the base of the sewing machine. There might be another design added to each of the four corners, that would be connected by the band around the edge. I will have to wait and see how it develops. I am attaching a link to the first table that is finished with three coats of varnish, so you can see what I am talking about. This whole thing is a lot cheaper than spending my nights down at the local bar. Especially when you remember that this is a dry town and there are no bars for about 10 miles around. Much more fun actually than spending time in a bar, from what I remember of that time in my life. Anyway, here is the link and I am awaiting your ideas as to the curtain: I hate to call it batting, so I will call it filler.
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John