Hot Tub Operational and Curtains Part 1

Anna, Bjarki and Eyrún try out the hot tub. They seemed to like it! 🙂

While Finnur kept an eye on the kids, my cousin Ríkey and I got started on making curtains for the living room. I’d bought a thin fabric that measured 3 m tall by 8 m wide (about 10 ft by 26 ft) and it needed to by cut in half (2 x 4 m) and then shortened to 195 cm. Thankfully the bottom edge was already ‘done’, but wrangling so much fabric was non-trivial!  Here Ríkey shows her apprehension as she’s about to start cutting it in half.

Let the cutting commence! Ríkey has spent about as much time with her sewing machine as I’ve spent with my camera. I felt pretty safe handing her this assignment. 🙂

The plumber dropped by to install the last little bit: a handle for the drain-valve.

Look, I helped!! 🙂  Preparing to measure exactly 195 cm – over and over again.

Ríkey, aka The Sewing Ninja, about to start using these terribly convenient plumbing feathers to accomplish the ‘exactly‘ in ‘exactly 195 cm’!  Why so picky?  Because these curtains are going to be hanging on top of the windowsill, which is perfectly straight.

Ríkey planning the next move with the entire width of the curtains measured, folded, and pinned.  She then proceeded to cut them to the proper height, and that was as far as we got that day.

Ríkey sewing the sides of the curtains.  She managed to finish all four sides before the day was out, so now ‘all’ that remained was sewing the top…