the saga of the shower curtain
2010
I remember Soule Mama saying back when how darn hard it was to take a photo of the humble shower curtain. She was right. At first I chuckled at my feeble efforts. I harrumphed. I cursed. I demanded Julian’s technical know-how with the camera settings. He laughed. I harrumphed. He rolled his eyes. After all, it is just a shower curtain.
And in the end, ya get what ya get. A wide angled shot with funny distortions and ghoulish light. And blurry scenes of the pretty fabric through the mirror. That’s it. Get it!
So here’s the old shower curtain. Serviceable but dull and a bit of a light killer in our almost all white bathroom. Drab huh! So here’s the NEW shower curtain.
Isn’t it pretty! I LOVE it! As I hung it, I was so tickled with its jolliness I was literally boinging about the bathroom singing silly songs of shower curtain love.
It took forever. I bought the shower curtain at Spotlight. Hung it from the shower rail and measured how much to chop and hem from the bottom. Then I pinned on my circles – cut from a 5 inch charm pack of Moda’s Odyssea by Mom0 – on with safety pins, going for the random look. I also added 9 circles of the red and white fabric included in my newly made bathroom floor quilt that Toph promptly peed on. It’s now washed and hanging to dry on one of our indoor drying racks that have, with the advent of cold, damp, sun-less winter days, turned our spacious and light filled hallway into a Dickens’ style laundry.
But I digress. The circles … I machine appliqued them on with a small zigzag stitch. Initially I thought the safety pin in the middle would hold the fabric sufficiently in place. BA-HA-HA-HA! Are you kidding!??! The curtain fabric slid from one side of the machine to the other – I’ve had more success picking up goldfish with my bare hands than I did controlling this alarming fabric. So it was pin, pin, pin, pin. Then slowly, slowly, slowly, using every finger to anchor every millimetre of fabric. Did I mention it took a long time? It took a long time. But well worth it :-)
I finished by ironing the curtain on the back … yep, the slipperiness terrified me enough to pull the instructions on how to use a shower curtain out of the bin so I could check on its ironability. Warm iron, on the wrong side and it came up a treat.
Ah, showering is such a delight now – worth doing every day even.
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I am in love! The curtain is pure sunshine, but your whole bathroom is like a cheery smile! I would never leave. I would just hang out in there and soak in the tun and soak up all of the fabulous colors and patters. And I think you did a perfectly fine job of photographing it all :)
Very cute shower curtain and I am in love with the bathroom floor quilt!
It is very cheerful and lights up the space instantly and looks great with those window curtains! You’ve worked so hard to make up this pretty version… now time to enjoy :)
I love your new shower curtain- I can only imagine how frustrating it must have been to sew the circles on- It looks wonderful and light and airy.
Just loving it all! The shower curtain really pulls the bathroom together! Well done. ~karen
Oh, I love it!!
You did a fabulous job photographing it too : )
How cute is that?! I love it!!! The photography job is fine too!
Love it! Oh my goodness what a breath of fresh air it must be to see all of those little bits of color on that frosty material… almost eddible (but not in the bathroom of coarse)… I really really love this!
oh lily!!!! how beautiful!!!! i LOVE it!
Pat yourself on the back, Lily! I can imagine how much better the room looks with the lightness of your new shower curtain, compared with the blue of the old one. You should be very proud!