Fabric shower curtain

This is my old shower curtain. It's a CBGB's shower curtain, which I really liked. But my one cat, Tifa, is deeply insane. She likes to chew on stuff, especially plastic. So she has pretty much destroyed the bottom of this shower curtain. It's all punctured with catty teeth marks. Plus, I'm pretty sure she's going to start tearing bits off of it and eating them. Which means another expensive vet visit and me being really worried. Tifa would just be angry and try to bite the vet again.

You can see the ripping a little in the picture.

The people at the vet's office call her Plastic Cat.


Materials- I have fabric left over from the Ikea curtains I bought last summer cause the curtains from Ikea are crazy long. So I kept the fabric once I hemmed them.

If you wanted to just make a shower curtain, you could just attach loops to an old bed sheet or any fabric you have. I probably could have just used one of the fabric panels by itself to be a new curtain, but I didn't want to be too matchy-matchy. So I decided to go with a patch-work thing.


I cut off a section to use as the top of the curtain. One of the panels was about as wide a the clear liner I already had so I just used that.


Making a hem. Straight pins are key with using a sewing machine. Pointy ends should point out. Then you can run the fabric thru the machine with the pins in it.

This is a broken sewing machine needle! Sigh.

Needles break. This is why you should have extras. This machine has a pretty easy way to change them, so no big deal.

After I hemmed the top, I'm attaching loops to put the shower curtain rings thru. I cut off the already hemmed part of the other fabric so I didn't have to hem it myself. I put the loops on with a zig-zag stitch. I overlapped the zig-zag several times on each loop. This is to give it some extra strength. I don't want the loops to fail, cause that's what's holding the curtain up.


You attach the blocks of fabric together like you would sew anything together with the machine-- put the good sides together, pin, and run through the machine on a straight stitch. Then you want to iron the seams down. This makes your seams look nice and locks everything down.

So I just keep going, attaching blocks together to make the patchwork go.



This is where I got kind of annoyed and headachey. So I left and got some Chinese food and sat down away from it for a bit. Then I put on a Mystery Science Theater episode and finished up. (Cave Dwellers! I'M HUGE!)


Done!

Tifa is pondering this new curtain. No eating it, Bad Cat!