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Hello Fancy Little things readers! It’s KariAnne again with a really fun knock-off idea!

It’s the story of a plain white shower curtain that transformed in to a sailcloth for under $20.00.

And went from a sad and lackluster “before”….to a crisp, shining, beautiful “after.”

So here’s to befores and afters and a step-by-step tutorial. 🙂

 

Sailcloth Shower Curtain Tutorial

 

 

Supplies:

Red Cotton fabric from Wal-mart (the thicker the better)

Scissors

White Shower Curtain

Sharpie

Pins

Random bunches of grapevine to take pictures on

 

 

Step 1:

Take red fabric and drape it over a wooden box in your dining room.

Take a picture.

Just because.

Because you wanted to.

Even though is has absolutely nothing to do with this tutorial other than the light was just so beautiful and the fabric was so….well….so red. And you were trying different focus options to get the clearest shot and this picture just made you smile.

Next, remove red fabric draped over box and proceed to step 2.

 

 

Step 2:

Print out extremely large numbers on your computer in Ariel Bold.

These were printed at 700 x.

Cut out numbers and photograph them on grapevine.

Because printed numbers photographed on the table just aren’t the same.

And because you have been pinning photo props on Pinterest in your quest to be a highly sought after grapevine numbers photographer.

 

 

Step 3:

Take your 700x Bold Ariel Font numbers and trace them with a sharpie.

Backwards.

Because when you traced them frontwards….the sharpie showed.

And even though you tried to fray the sharpie off the edges.

You still knew it was there.

And the little bits of sharpie that still showed even after you tried to fray the edges took on the proportions of the Empire State Building lit up red white and blue for the fourth of July.

Trust me.

Backwards is so much more sharpieless.

 

 

Step 4:

Cut out the numbers.

And then pin them onto the white shower curtain.

I pinned them diagonally.

To create the impression that I had just ripped the sail off a sailboat.

And hung it up as a shower curtain in the bathroom.

And so it would look like this without spending the $100.

 

 

Step 5:

Pin the numbers onto the shower curtain.

Stitch a one-inch border in contrasting thread.

Fray the edges.

And hang shower curtain and liner on nickel-plated hooks.

 

 

Total cost if you would have bought it online: $100.00.

Total cost for project: $16.93.

Simple.

Easy.

For less than the cost of a movie, popcorn and a box of junior mints. 🙂

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