Homemade Curtains From Pillowcases

We use my old homestead (the house in which I was born - it is well over 100 years old), as our summer home. I found it very easy and inexpensive to make curtains for my old home by using pillow cases.

• Method #1: Using two matching pillow cases, make/cut two small "rod" openings in the seams at the closed end of the pillow case, insert a curtain rod through the openings and hang. This makes a "heavy" curtain.
• Method #2: Open the seams of the pillow cases along one long side and the closed end of the pillow cases (or use a scissors to cut same). You will now have a piece of material, with ready-made hem (the wide-band that finishes the opening of each pillow case becomes a great bottom hem of your curtains.)

  Make/sew a 1 - 2 inch "rod-pocket" at the top of the pillow case. Insert curtain rod and hang the curtain. This method, of course, makes a much lighter and fuller curtain and requires a bit more sewing.

By Doris from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada