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I am reaching back a bit with this post.  In the warmer months of 2012 I made curtains for my office/craft/media room.  I had high expectations that I could whip this room into shape and give you a complete beginning to end post, so I held off talking about the curtains.  If I wait any longer they will be out of vogue and no longer a pertinent post. Purple burlap?  Not in the beginning. I started with about 14 yards of burlap from JoAnn's. (purchased with a 40% off coupon, of course.) I taped off large horizontal stripes that were reduced by an inch or two as they progressed towards the top. (somehow I came to the conclusion this was a good way to divide the height measurement...too long ago now to remember my reasoning.)  I used a roller to speed things up and keep from getting a dry edge and overlapping. I let one stripe dry before moving on to the next section.  Unless you have a really large surface to lay out the entire piece...

As of April 6th, I have a new grandson named Nathan.  Nathan has a brother named Gabriel who was born exactly 17 months ago on Nov. 7th. So when I saw this cute idea on Pinterest I quickly pinned it knowing I would be making one of these as well.  (Pinterest is such a great resource for creative ideas.)  You can see step by step instructions for the one shown above on Whipper Berry. I started by marking off the inches.  That was going fine until I reached 39. (rather mimics life, don't you think?)  Anyway, I thought about stopping for the night but kept going even though I was getting tired.  You would think I would have learned by now that is never a smart idea.  Yes, I lost focus and put the number 39 above 37 without skipping a mark.  I was able to clorox out the number, tea stain the burlap and then put the little red stitching back in with a colored pencil.  ( When things like this happen, I always tell mys...