Make a Rainbow Canopy for Your Child's Room

Step 6 Curtains: cutting the fabric

Take the blue cloth and fold it semi-diagonally as shown, about a 30 degree diagonal. What you are doing is creating a curtain that fits on a curved shape without too much actual fitting. It does not need to be precise, but one side does need to be longer than the other.

Smooth out the fabric and cut along you fold very carefully.

Fold your twin flat sheet in half, as shown. You want two short fat rectangles, not long skinny ones.

Smooth out the fabric and cut along the fold.

Lay a piece of the blue fabric under one of the rectangles along the cut edge, overlapping by several inches to a foot. Using the edge of the blue cloth as a guide, sketch out a few cloud humps between the cut edge of the white fabric and the edge of the blue fabric that do not go closer than 1" from the cut edges. Remove the blue cloth and lay down the other rectangle under the marked one, cut edges matched up, and cut your cloud edge shape through both layers.

(not illustrated) Hem the two short edges of the blue cloth pieces. You will not need to hem the straight edges of the white cloth, as they are already hemmed.