a little bathroom facelift: shower curtain

i decided that our bathroom needed a little help. our place is rented, the vent fan doesn't work well which means that the walls are slightly moldy. yuck, right?

well, we aren't going to put a bunch of money into fixing up our rented townhome, but i did decide that the decor needed help. first up, the shower curtain.

shower curtain: before

it was on our wedding registry 3 years ago. my first thought was: get a new one. but i don't have the money, don't need to spend the money and ours works just fine. the grommets are slightly rusty (why do they put metal on shower curtains? especially the liners? please, oh please, explain why.), it needs a good washing and just some pizazz added.

(insert: rosette tutorial.)

YES! Exactly what I needed. *sigh.

 

I had some extra linen that I re-used to make the rosettes. (I love the scrappy look of them. Linen unravels beautifully.) It previously was covering my vanity stool, but linen, because it stretches and wrinkles, is awful to use for upholstering. So I scored a new piece of great fabric for $1 and recovered my stool.

(Note to self: don't use linen for upholstering.)

I cut off those silly grommets and used the holes to mark out the spots to sew button holes.

This was the first time to use my automatic button-holer on my sewing machine and I LOVED it! I wanted to make button holes all day, but I tempered my desire and just made enough to rehang my curtain. It's a little shorter than it was... but...

I sewed on a ruffle to make up for some of the missing length. I love me some ruffles!! :-)
I actually hand-ruffled it and then sewed it on the wrong ways together. I had a ruffle mishap at the beginning that really wasn't working for me, so I went back to this way and it turned out so cute!

Shower curtain: After

(excuse the perspective - our bathroom is so tiny, it's almost impossible to photograph!)

More to come: Bathroom art!