The new doorway curtains are done! Did my devil-may-care pattern-less method work? Eh. Sort of.
Original lace curtains. Problems – no heat retention, easily see-through at night.
New knitted curtains.
Solved: keep out the cold better, not see-through at night. Sounds good, right?
Problems – not quite wide enough. Substantially too long.
Actually, they were just long enough, but then I decided to wash them and very lightly block them. That was not a good idea. There are bottom bars from the original curtains, and I might loop the new curtains under them and fasten them up so they are partially doubled. Or I might let them alone. If there is a next time for this project, I will make them a couple inches wider and a bit shorter.
So I’m calling it a partial success, and good enough for the time being 🙂
Do you have any project partial successes? Did you just roll with how it they turned out, or did you redo?
Quite A Yarn 
I’m usually good with partial successes. I almost never want to make anything more than once. I love that you knit some drapes. I’ve never seen that before!
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LOL! I think partial success will do it for me on this one as well 🙂
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Wow! They grew a lot! I bagged a window treatment I made this summer. Fabric was perfect but the overall effect on the window was too dark. Replaced with purchased sheers and much happier. Your idea was good.
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Sometimes you just have to try a few things!
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Oh that’s frustrating they grew one way. What if you wet it again and hung it on a line from the long side, maybe it would stretch a bit wider? Ah well better than the lace for sure.
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That’s a good idea! I will try that 🙂 Yes, at least it’s a bit better!
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I decided to do a poncho for one of my grandkids. The gauge was wayyyyy off, but I figured it would fit because I was using an adult pattern and this way I wouldn’t have to recalculate. Well, it was cute! But… the neckline was not stretchy and she couldn’t pull it over her head! oops.
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D’oh!
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Hey they work for the time being and you can see if you want a different solution later 🙂
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Very true!
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I would consider this overall a win, since it fixed the two things you wanted to change. And maybe the alternate blocking solution would work to fix the width issue?
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Maybe!
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