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...