The playroom gets some color!

The room used probably the most in our house these days are the girls' playroom. They are 5 and almost 3 now and love to play dress-up, Mommy & Baby, restaurant chef, and have tea parties. We've lived in our house now for almost 2 years and it was time to finally add a little color in there. I was going to paint, but decided to start with some curtains.
I own a sewing machine but don't use it very much. I am not a pro, but when it comes to sewing a couple of straight line hems I feel I can accomplish that. Plus I'm too "frugal" to pay $100 for curtains and I just never could find exactly what I was looking for. So one day I saw an outfit on a website's facebook page and knew that was the fabric I wanted. It was bright, colorful and fun. So I went on a google search. What I found was this:

Its by Mchael Miller and called Ooh La La Bouquet De Fleurs Lime. So I placed an order from fabric.com and in a couple of days it was on my doorstep. It was EXACTLY what I was looking for!
This is what the playroom started as:

(Sorry for the dark picture)

It was plain-jane with a few pictures/decor on the wall but that was it. (I'll post soon on how to make those letters you see in the picture). So I started out by ironing my fabric.



I ironed out all of the wrinkles and then ironed a thin, even strip on the side and then folded it over again to make about a 1/2-3/4" hem on both sides. I sewed both sides down with my sewing machine.

Then at the bottom I ironed down a small strip and then folded it over and ironed it down to make a 1" hem at the bottom. Sewed that down, then started on the top where the curtain rod would go through. After ironing down about 1/2" of the fabric over I then folded it over and ironed it down at 4 inches. This would be plenty of room for my curtain rod to slide through. I sewed it down and then that panel was ready to go. Then it was on to panel #2. The hardest part was the time it took to get all of the edges ironed down. The sewing part was actually the easiest. And now the playroom looks like this and the girls LOVE IT (and so do I)!!