Whilst wolfing down the old vino collapso with Little Kate in the garden yesterday, I suddenly thought "I'll make some tab top curtains for the guest bedroom".
Now my sewing skills, hmm, probably best that I say that what I lose in technical skills I make up for in enthusiasm! So in anticipation of my own haste last night I prepared the main fabric, getting it all pinned and pressed. It is the first time that I have applied a sort of 'aim, method, results, conclusion' approach to home sewing and I think that it has helped me make something that I am not ashamed of.
This morning I was awake enough to prepare the lining and then sew the tabs before pinning them and the lining in place. There is something rather lovely about taking the time to pin, then tack everything together before firing up the old John Lewis JL100. I always want to rush to the stitching part but now that the curtains are, many hours later, hanging in the bedroom and looking rather fine, I have realised that successful projects cannot be rushed, and ain't that the truth.
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