Nursery Curtains

My Granddaughter's nursery is decorated in a Peter Rabbit theme. The window in the nursery is huge, taking up almost an entire wall. I knew I wanted to hang curtains that were soft, pretty and girly. My daughter and I decided to go with white ruffled curtains. I got online and found some shear white ruffled curtains on Amazon. I bought the "Gypsy Ruffled" panels that were 60" wide and 84" long. The panels were wide enough, but not long enough.  I needed them to be about 120" long, so I bought three panels and used the extra panel to lengthen the other two. This ended up being pretty easy to do because I could just cut off several ruffles of the extra panel, and sewed them onto the bottom of the other two panels.

We also wanted the curtains lined for the black-out effect to keep the room dark for naps in the afternoon. Instead of lining the curtains I bought the black out lining and made them into a pair of "shears" to hang behind the curtains. My daughter already had the double curtain rod so it worked out wonderfully.

Just to add a little color I added a small gingham ribbon to the top of the curtains. This matched the Pottery Barn Peter Rabbit quilt that was purchased for the crib, and I used the same ribbon  to put around a stuffed rabbit's neck we included in the nursery's wall arrangement. I thought about adding some bows here and there too, but I honestly liked the simple look of the ribbon.