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Valances and Café Curtains

Window dressings can be costly. Frugal homemakers have long known that they can dress their windows for less by purchasing them at thrift stores and yard sales. They also know that using old sheets, table cloths, and fabric can be made into several different styles of curtains. Here’s a VERY simple and frugal way to make valances and café curtains.

Consider using cloth napkins and dish towels. One of the reasons these are such a great resource is that you can often find matching or complimentary sets at thrift stores and yard sales for just a few cents. Also, they are already finished, so it is just a matter of putting them together in curtain form. This can easily be accomplished, even without a sewing machine. Assemble the napkins or dish towels side by side until you have enough to be 1 ½ times the width of the window. Now, you will want to “close” the seams of the edges in the center of the curtains. You can do this on a machine, or use a needle and thread to tack them “closed.”

If you will be hanging them on a rod, fold the top down the correct width to accommodate the curtain rod to be used. Using a sewing machine or needle and thread, sew that piece, being certain sew the ends well. That’s IT! Hang it and you have some very cute, stylish, and custom curtains that are simple and frugal!

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