Bed sheet curtains, yes they are.
I have had the same curtains for some time now. I like them, they are Ok, but they got kind of warped and shrunken even though the tag reads: Machine Washable. They are pale green striped linen tab-tops and I may have a picture somewhere and had I thought it through before hand I would have taken a picture before I took them down and now they are in the laundry pile by the front door.
I was over at my friend's house the other night and she has new window treatments. She used sheets and these little ring clips to hang them and it looked so nice I wanted to try it too.
Mine look almost like those, but mine are brass and a 3/4 hook not a circle.
I was surprised at how hard it is to find "open-stock" sheets, not SETS. I do not need a flat and a fitted, I need two flats! And I certainly wasn't buying two sheet sets just for the FLATS. I finally found some open-stock sheets at Mervyn's. Two different kinds, one group was plain solids, the other was fun prints. Too fun for me, clouds and rainbows aren't my thing, but they did have these kind of interesting ivy covered ones.
So, I bought one of each, one green, the other ivy and brought them both home and tested them out. I didn't take a picture of both green panels because it looked like sheets - I mean THEY ARE sheets, but they ivy ones don't look like BED sheets, just sheets of material and I couldn't wait to take the green ones down, and put them back in the bag to return.
The ivy is a bit busy, and they really clash with the blue chair.
I need a job. I have far too much time on my hands to shop for home furnishings and make shortbread biscuits.
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I also got a dust ruffle at Mervyns, queen size - 13 bucks! It matches my new sheets, I like sand colored stuff because everything goes with it and now I can get a really outrageous duvet cover for my quilt and the dust ruffle will match!
Yeah to Jamie for the towel idea. I need curtains for my kitchen (to block the peeping tom). was planning to use silk table runners from Chinatown but, once again, didn't make it that far. I have a beach towel up there now. Since they're short windows, maybe I can find some nice hand towels instead.
When I was little (12 maybe?) - I decided one day to help mom out by taking down all the curtains on the back porch and washing them. They'd been there forever and they look so old and dirty. Forever is a key word here. I took them all down and put them in the washer and in about an hour I took out the biggest pile of shredded (dry rotted) material. I don't think we put curtains back up... ever now that I think about it. Maybe we did, but I don't recall them so much. I think I was blocking them from my memory.
Heh to the curtains. I have a sheer set that goes behind my regular ones and I washed them yesterday and one came out all in tatters.
The ivy is cool, but too busy and the novelty wears off right quick.
And I'll see what I can do about sending out some shortbread, but it rarely makes it off the pan into the container before I eat it all up.