Easy defined

Easy, as defined by Merriam-Websters dictionary, is a: causing or involving little difficulty or discomfort, or b: requiring or indicating little effort, thought, or reflection. This is how I imagined my daughters bedroom redo to be. It would take time but it would be easy. Maybe I need to be hit on the head with said dictionary. Although it wasn't difficult it did provide some "discomfort" (see definition "a" above) and the "little effort" part described in definition "b".............not so much. Of course some of it is my own fault and as I have stated in an earlier post I must get past my "p's".........off of perfection and on to production. There's a good segue for me to share a little bit about the painting of her room. Talk about being stuck on my "p's"! I was very careful about the prep work. I patched the holes myself smoothing them out so they wouldn't be noticed, I cleaned the walls and I taped everything off using a credit card to smooth the tape down and a pair of tweezers to get into the corners. Still, there was one area on the wall where some paint got on to the ceiling and I was not happy with it. I tried desperately to fix it! I painted over it with the ceiling paint which then got on to the wall so I painted over that with the wall paint which then got back on the ceiling. That scenario went on for hours until I finally decided to throw away the brushes so I wouldn't touch it anymore. Then I remembered I had some of those craft sponges on a stick so I got those out and tried again. I repeated the above scenario and still could not get it perfect so I threw away those in order to stop myself. Then I remembered some make up brushes I had that were never used and I tried those too. Needless to say that area is still not right but I did finally get past my "p's" with it, which was not easy.
Anyway, here are some pictures of the finished painting:


Next, I covered her wall outlets with the same fabric that I am using for her window treatment. That, was easy!


After that I began work on the window treatment (not so easy). It's not that it was really difficult but it definitely required more than "little effort, thought, or reflection." I started with this fabric:
(that's a terrible picture)

Since the pattern I was using consisted of four swags with tabs between them (see previous post) I had to be certain the toille scenes were properly chosen and placed on the swags. I had to choose scenes with similar positive and negative space to create balance and I also had to be sure I had a good visual line going across the entire treatment. That was the not so easy part. It took a lot of time to be sure that I was getting that right. If one piece was cut too high or too low it would throw the whole thing off. Luckily, my mother was here and she helped me choose and cut out the pieces. She also suggested that I use the lady with the laundry on her head for all the tab pieces. That turned out to be an excellent suggestion! The treatment consists of 27 pieces in all which does include the lining and interlining but does not include the piping around it. That's a lot of cutting!

A bluish purple fabric with raspberry colored dots was chosen for the lining:

and a raspberry colored fabric that matches the dots was chosen for the piping.


This is not the finished product just yet. The tabs need to be pressed and the buttons need to be sewn on too.

The pattern is from pate-meadows and I must say I really do like the pattern. They rank all of their patterns as either a beginner, easy, or intermediate. This one was, you guessed it, easy. I have been sewing for a long time (over 20 years) and I don't think I would call this pattern easy. I wouldn't say it was intermediate either but if you are thinking of trying this pattern you should know it was not exactly easy.

I am going to be making some pillows for her bed out of the raspberry colored fabric that I used for the piping and I will incorporate some of the bluish purple dotted fabric into them. I have some raspberry colored trim in my stash that my daughter liked so I'll add that to the design too. They should pop off of the off white colored quilt she chose for her bedding. It's an adorable piece with ruffles over one corner. The only thing about it is that keeping it clean will not be easy!