Prince Charming in the Bathoom

A couple of days ago I posted about choosing 12 unfinished projects for next year and working on just one a month until it was done.   I’ve been slowly sorting through my projects and one I came across was a quilt I thought about making using the Prince Charming line of fabric I received in the store this summer.  I was given the quilt pattern all I had to do was cut the fabric out and make the quilt.  I got as far as cutting the fabric off the bolt.  I think what stopped me from jumping all over making the quilt was that I wasn’t thrilled with the quilt pattern.  It had lots of triangles and was nothing spectacular and if I’m going to spend time making triangles – the quilt better be spectacular!!

I knew when I came across the bag that if it was going to make the cut I had better come up with a spectacular project.  And, as if the Universe heard me the very next day a customer came into the store and wanted me to look at a dress pattern that she had found on the Made by Rae Blog.  I pulled up the site and helped the customer with picking out her fabric for the dress.  As soon as she left I went back to the blog and found this:

Don’t you love it??  I do!  And as soon as I saw it I knew that’s what I wanted to do with the Prince Charming fabrics I had.  I had always thought a quilt would make a cool shower curtain, but I couldn’t figure out how you could make it and not have it weigh a ton (with the batting and backing pieces I imagined it would be way to heavy to hang on the shower rod).  Solution:  serge the pieces together so that there are no ‘raw’ edges to worry about!  GENIUS!!!  Especially since I have a serger in the studio!

I knew I could make the curtain in an afternoon, which in my mind justified crossing it off my list earlier rather than putting it in a bin for next year.  Plus, I knew it would be really pretty in my bathroom and I didn’t want to wait another second to make it!

I cut my pieces into 8 1/2″ squares and serged them all together.  It took 81 blocks total when I laid them out 9 across and 9 down.  (the size of a standard shower curtain is 72″x72″)   I hemmed the sides, top and bottom with a 1′ hem, then added button holes at the top for the hooks…. and voila!

Again – Don’t you LOVE it!!!  I do!  I haven’t bought a new shower curtain since we moved into the house – it was time.  I still have a few scraps left over, which I think may end up either wall art or math mat.   SOON!