When I found out I was having a little girl, I was so excited to finally do a girly nursery! I found this tutorial for ruffle curtains from a twin sheet, and figured I would give it a try.

A little background on my sewing experience. All my friends senior year in high school thought it would be awesome to take a sewing class that they were offering for the first time. Unfortunately, it was the same time as yearbook, and I really wanted to do yearbook. So I didn’t take that beginning sewing class and I still regret that decision! Yearbook is not worth missing out on sewing. If only I could have told that to my 17 year old self!  So besides watching my mom sew on a machine here and there, I had no sewing experience when I decided to try this curtains. In fact I had just gotten my sewing machine for Christmas (and if you are looking for a good, basic cheap machine I got this Brother machine from Walmart as a Black Friday deal).

The instructions on the tutorial I linked to are great. I worked on the curtains at night for a few hours at a time. My lines weren’t very straight, but I think this is a great project if you are first starting out. The ruffles overlap so you can’t see all my mistakes 🙂 The curtains look great in my little girl’s room, and the best part was that I made them myself for cheap!

I knew I wanted to give my kids a teepee for Christmas, but they were pretty expensive everywhere I looked and more than I was willing to pay. I found two awesome tutorials on Pinterest. I wanted to make this twin sheet teepee, but all the sheet sets I found at Walmart were kind of plain and I was worried about it being a little small.  Instead I bought a twin sheet set at my local thrift store (flat sheet and fitted sheet) for $4. Then I used this tutorial to make the pockets for the poles to sit in. Because my sheet was patterned, I didn’t want the door to be the reverse so I cut the door piece out of the fitted sheet instead. PVC was kind of expensive so instead I bought some wood at Lowe’s and my husband cut them in half for the poles.  This project was a little tricky for a few reasons. Getting straight lines and cutting such big sections was hard, especially because I didn’t have a huge area to work in (my craft area is small) Also, because I am not great at sewing super straight lines, my pockets were a little tight in some areas.  So if you are a beginner sewer like me, take note to sew the pole pockets very carefully!  After it was all done, I was super happy with the final product! And best of all my kids loved it.