I've been sewing a winter curtain- inpired by the above page in this book by Lisa Stickley I wrote about a while back. This is quite a large curtain, to fit our front door which is made of panelled glass, and I had to piece together a few different fabrics in true d-i-y style to make it big enough. One half of the curtain was a piece of vintage barkcloth kindly given by Louana the last time I saw her. To this I sewed panels of kimono fabric (leftover from this project) and some curtain tape, and backed the entire thing with an old brown flannel sheet which I don't use but can't throw away because I remember it being on my bed when I was very small.
It's a small achivement, but I'm happy with it and that barkcloth print makes me happy every time I walk past it.
In other news, we're quite pleased to hear that Bret McKenzie (a fellow Wellingtonian) has been nominated for an Oscar for one of the songs he wrote for the new Muppet movie (it's so enjoyable- you must take kids to it if you can). You can listen to it in all it's glory here.
