DIY Easy Striped Curtains with Rope Tiebacks

DIY No Sew Striped Curtains

Let's start with these simple striped curtains.

You will need:

White Curtains

Heat n Bond

Ribbon (any width your heart desires.  I chose 2.5 inches wide)

A measuring tape

A Hot Iron



I got my white curtains at Ikea for cheap cheap cheap.  They were very long, about 96 inch.  I just did a little math and figured out that spacing my ribbon stripes 9 inches apart looked great.

This measurement will vary depending on the width of your ribbon, the length of your curtains, and on how you want your curtains to look visually.


Follow the directions of the heat and bond and iron on the ribbon just like so...  (the heat n bond is just underneath the ribbon, sandwiched between the ribbon and curtain.)

iron on striped curtains

Umm.. How easy is that?! AMAZINGLY easy, and if you ever get sick of the stripes you can just peal it off without damaging the original curtains!



Now for the tiebacks... my favorite part.  Head to Home Depot, or any hardware store for thick natural looking rope.  I had them cut 4 pieces, each measuring 2 feet long.  It was about $.67 a foot!!  They wrapped electrical tape around each end so that it wouldn't come unraveled on my drive home.  This came in very handy.

You will need:

Rope

Twin

hot glue



Use the electrical tape to keep the twin in place.  Make a little loop.  A "hanging loop" if you will...


Now just hot glue the crap out of the twine to cover up the tape.  This makes it looked fantastically finished.






Here is how I hung them...



That's it!  Soon...someday... I will have to post pictures of his whole room, but for now enjoy his window.