Do you think I could find some fabric like the picture below and get away with making curtains for my eating area in my kitchen with them?
I have this pattern on my background on my computer at work and my laptop. I love it. I love stripes. I love these colors. I just love it! I also have what one might call an obsession to stripes and all things striped. I just find them appealing and soothing. Strange, I know.
Anyhow…at some point, I want to get some curtains for the eating area in the kitchen. I am sure my neighbors love watching me do dishes. (Although, I am sure they don't even care I am there doing dishes…no one wants to know what their neighbors are doing! *cough*)
There are a few problems with this curtain idea:
- I do not have this fabric, nor have I seen anything exactly like it or I would have made purses, placemats, aprons and anything else I can think of to make out of it already.
- I am cheap and don't want to spend the amount of money it would cost for the amount of fabric I would need to make said curtains.
- I have a lot of red things in my kitchen from my previous house. (I painted the kitchen red there.) So I would have to replace the red things with green, blue or PINK. And as the previous issue states…I am cheap.
- Would my dear hubby actually tolerate PINK on the windows? The window is pretty big. There would be a lot of stripes…and a lot of pink ones. Yes, there is blue and green and white in there, too. But there are two shades of pink as well.
- If I did find the ideal fabric, I don't think I really WANT to make curtains. Buying them is so much better and I love the ones I got from Ikea for the living room!
Hmm. Those are a lot of cons. So maybe I should rethink this. If I do find something similar to this, I might just have to make curtains for my one lowly office window. 
I could do that. And I don't have the red issue…there's already lots of pink, green, blue and white things in there. It would be perfect.
And of course if I found the perfect material, I would get lots of extra to make purses, aprons, pot holders, pillows, and maybe even a tree skirt with it! Can't you just imagine how pretty each of these things would be with those stripes?! Because I sure can!
I think I will just be headed to the Ikea website to browse around and see if they have something stripy and fun (with red in it) for my kitchen instead.
