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I’ve made a kazillion curtains in my short life – short ones, long ones, roman shades, shower curtains… The roman shades and cafe curtains are quite manageable as everyone has enough uncluttered space to lay out either of those. The long curtains are troublesome. Not my favorite. And I volunteered to make 14 panels of them for Will’s preschool.

Perhaps you heard me mention this months ago right after the school spring work party. I spent a few weeks finding the right fabric. Then another several acquiring enough fabric. I’ve washed, ironed and cut the fabric into general lengths long ago, and it has been sitting on my shelf waiting for inspiration. I did pull it all out and dutifully re-measure and iron a hem into several lengths, but after struggling to get the panels the same length, I re-folded and re-shelved the material. The problem is although I have plenty of floor space the size of my panels, these curtains are 72″ and 92″ in length which is unmanageable to cut and hem accurately. The fabric inevitably wrinkles or shifts as you measure and cut making your cuts imprecise. I had a eureka the other night – what I need is to make full length pattern pieces from waxed paper! Yesterday I bought a few rolls of waxed paper and will attempt my patterns sometime over the next few nights. I should be able to lay the patterns over the fabric, pin, and either follow my pattern markings or re-mark the fabric based on the waxed pattern. I’ll let you know if this works out.