Burlap Curtain Topper

Briggs is transitioning into his big boy room.  So that means I've been slowly changing things.  His previous window looked like this..

When G-Maw (justin's mom) came for a visit, she gave me a little assistance on how to make what was in my head, come out in real life.  

Started by measuring the window from the outside to the outside of the frame and then we added 3 inches to account for the rod it was on. 

Cut one piece of burlap and liner the dimensions you need...

Front face them to each other and pin around all the edges...

We started out sewing like this with the burlap on bottom and liner on top.  

Tip:  burlap frays pretty bad and it kept getting stuck in my machine, so..

we flipped it over and put the liner on bottom and it worked out great..

Here is G-Maw marking the curtain for the rod pocket.  

All we did was lay the rod on the fabric, make a mark on how wide the pocket 

needed to be and marked the fabric all the way down.

We went ahead and pinned it since I'm a rookie sewer, didn't want to mess up.   

I did a back stitch real good at both ends b/c when you turn the curtain right side out...you have to rip out the end stitches where the rod goes and didn't want anything coming unraveled. 

Then it was time to turn out the curtain.  G-Maw had a little helper for this part.

Final product...

It's simple, but that's the look I was going for. 

 I'm very happy with it and thanks to help from  G-Maw, it looks great.