Bonnie came home from school and said "Mrs. K asked me to ask you if you would make a tent for Dr. Seuss Day. Apparently Mrs. K is using 3rd graders to do her dirty work. The 3rd grade theme is Dr. Seuss' book If I Ran the Circus.
I told Mrs. K. that I didn't think I could make a tent and that I would be afraid it would collapse on the kids. We finally settled on curtains for the three 3rd grade classroom doors. I saw the 3rd grade room mother who is a stay-at-home mother with waaaayyyy too much energy at Author's night. She said she was thinkinig of an awning and maybe a tunnel. When she saw my eye start twitching and lip start curling, she decided that curtains would be just fine.
So here is what Mrs. K got...
Curtain #1
I got the cotton quilting fabric and tension rods at JoAnns.
I used a saucer (as in cup and saucer) to trace the scallops for the valance and tie backs.
Curtain #2
I used my ruffler attachment for the valance and tie backs. There is a nice video of the ruffler in action at the Bernina website.
I serged the ruffles of the tie-backs with red thread.
Closeup of the valance.
Curtain #3
This curtain has a scalloped valance and ruffled tie backs.
The book actually shows yellow stars on red fabric. I couldn't find any fabric with yellow stars. I thought the polka dots looked pretty circusy.
I was pretty happy with the results and the Mrs. K was thrilled. The only thing that took any skill was pressing the scallops correctly. I actually don't clip my curves for scallops. I find the clips seem distort the smooth curves. I just trim very closely and carefully press out the curves.
Not too bad for 10 hours of work.
