Nursery Curtains

When I decided that McKiddle #2 would get a new take on the nursery, I also knew that I wouldn't be changing the basics - namely the board and batten and antique dresser we use as a changing table were definitely staying. I also figured we'd keep the chocolate brown paint.


But in the 2 years since I decorated the nursery for McKiddle #1 (now lovingly called Thomas), I've developed a greater appreciation for color. And since we don't know if the baby is a boy or a girl (truly no clue - last week I was leaning girl, this week I'm leaning boy), we're still aiming for gender neutral here - so I picked dark turquoise as the main accent color - with a few other colors, which you'll see soon. And I figure dark turquoise can be made feminine or masculine depending on the other colors in the room.
I stumbled across this turquoise and brown quatrefoil fabric in January and snatched up every yard they had for curtains. Now that Thomas is happily down the hall in his new room and actually goes to the new room when we ask him where his room is, I felt safe starting to call the nursery the "Baby's room" and making changes to it. Not that Thomas has any clue that the curtains got changed, but it makes me feel better.

Caroline came up this week with her sewing machine and we set up shop at my dining room table, each of us in front of our respective sewing machine. We cut the the fabric to size, lined it with blackout lining, hemmed them and clipped them up on the curtain rings. We gave ourselves an hour to get it done and we were successful. I might be the only person to say this, but I love sewing with blackout lining - the weight and structure it adds to curtains feels substantial.

Still to come: a new crib and crib skirt, a new chair, and I'm going to get over my minimalist fear of artwork and add something decorative to at least one wall. You heard me color and artwork, it's about to get crazy, people.