Has anyone ever used a quilt top as a shower curtain?
Quilting My Rainbow
ls2116: Has anyone ever used a quilt top as a shower curtain?
No, actually it never occurred to me. You'd have to use a separate plastic liner hanging on the inside to protect the quilt from soap scum wouldn't you? Would you only use a single layer of flannel instead of both a backing and batting?
Interesting thought.
In the beautiful Pacific Northwest!
my cousin's wife did and it looks really kewl!
I have seen this done in pictures in magazines. I think to use a completed top would make it too heavy. But, you do need to use a liner. It is a great look.
I've made a shower curtain that looks like a quilt top and lined it with bleached muslin. The plastic liner hangs separately from the shower curtain. Made it about 10 years ago and it still looks like new.
I made one a few years back and I found a new pattern in the Moda Bake Shop blog. I didn't use batting and I do use a fabric liner on the inside.
I made one a few years ago. I lined the back of it with cotton. It didn't need a liner because it hangs over the front of the shower doors (not my favorite thing to look at but a necessary evil.) I did make a header and made buttonholes in the header to put the shower hooks in. In our master bath, I couldn't find a shower curtain I liked and I haven't had the time to make one, so I used a wooden curtain rod, closet rod brackets, cafe curtain rod hooks with clips, and a drapery. When I get around to making a new quilt shower curtain, I can just clip the quilt on to the rod and won't have to put the buttonholes in it. Hope this helps...
I have made a shower curtain "quilt" with no lining just backing. Put buttonholes in the top to hook my shower hooks thru. Looks great. I do use one of the plastic shower liners behind it. Looks the same as it did many years ago when I made it.
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