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I bought a pair of Wontex thermal/sound dampening curtain panels recently, but made the mistake of choosing the 'save! get the open box version!' option- I assumed that someone returned a pair of panels for being the wrong color. Nope. The curtains I got were the outer layer only, no sign of the heavy black inner layer that does a lot of the insulating and noise dampening. I wound up ordering a pair of new curtains instead of trying to figure out how to replace that inner layer, but now I have two pieces of 53"x84" beige polyester velour (I think? It's polyester fiber and it's thick, soft, and fuzzy, and I know they make sound dampening curtains out of velour). I paid $14 for the set. Minus the few inches at the top that're taken up by the grommets, I figure that's a pretty good bargain for fabric if I can figure out a good way to make use of it. Anybody have any suggestions, other than using a small amount off the bottom to make draft blockers for my apartment doors and windows now that the temperatures are starting to drop?
Sep. 27th, 2022
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Sep. 27th, 2022 02:25 pmDid some math and it looks as if I can probably make a moderately respectable cloak out of the curtain panels, so long as I don't mind it being only a little bit longer than knee-length. I'm talking proper pull-around-you cloak, not a cape. I am neither Lando Calrissian nor Billy Batson; I don't expect to make a cape look good.
I am also not a superhero. Edna Mode does not apply.
Anyway, while a couple of cosplayish sites talk about making a fantasy cloak with hood from a single curtain panel, I'm not sure how wide their panels are, so I'm going to stick with the numbers and techniques in the Online Fabric Store tutorial on how to make a hooded cloak with a lining. If I have enough fabric left after cutting the main cloak, I will make the hood out of what's left. If the structure of the curtains is such that I fall short in this category, I will wander over to their velvet section and buy a yard of something in beige or taupe or gold polyester velvet to use instead. At home I currently have eight yards of purple polyester crepe-backed satin, which I had originally planned to make into pyjamas. It may wind up being the lining on the cloak instead. Not like it costs much; I can get more of it from OFS when I actually get around to making pyjamas. And deep purple strikes me as a good interior color.
I have to finish my quilted pillow front project first. Last night I realized I had attached about 27 triangles to other triangles incorrectly. Given that I was using the 1.5 stitch setting on my machine, there is no way on God's green earth that I'm going to go back and rip all of those seams. I'm going to grab one of my backup fabrics, cut a bunch of similarly sized triangles, stitch the little bastards to the extant ones so that they give the impression I deliberately split that part of the pattern into two fabrics, and proceed from there. After that I'm gonna wanna do something nice and simple, so that's either going straight to the curtain cloak or just banging out a pair of capri-length bike pants for cycling to the ferry in the morning.
I am also not a superhero. Edna Mode does not apply.
Anyway, while a couple of cosplayish sites talk about making a fantasy cloak with hood from a single curtain panel, I'm not sure how wide their panels are, so I'm going to stick with the numbers and techniques in the Online Fabric Store tutorial on how to make a hooded cloak with a lining. If I have enough fabric left after cutting the main cloak, I will make the hood out of what's left. If the structure of the curtains is such that I fall short in this category, I will wander over to their velvet section and buy a yard of something in beige or taupe or gold polyester velvet to use instead. At home I currently have eight yards of purple polyester crepe-backed satin, which I had originally planned to make into pyjamas. It may wind up being the lining on the cloak instead. Not like it costs much; I can get more of it from OFS when I actually get around to making pyjamas. And deep purple strikes me as a good interior color.
I have to finish my quilted pillow front project first. Last night I realized I had attached about 27 triangles to other triangles incorrectly. Given that I was using the 1.5 stitch setting on my machine, there is no way on God's green earth that I'm going to go back and rip all of those seams. I'm going to grab one of my backup fabrics, cut a bunch of similarly sized triangles, stitch the little bastards to the extant ones so that they give the impression I deliberately split that part of the pattern into two fabrics, and proceed from there. After that I'm gonna wanna do something nice and simple, so that's either going straight to the curtain cloak or just banging out a pair of capri-length bike pants for cycling to the ferry in the morning.