1. Find a knee-length skirt in the right color. Thrift stores are a great place to start. You want one that falls directly from a waist band or panel, not a tiered skirt. The more detail on the bottom, the better.

2. Cut it off the waist band. You will have a big tubular piece of fabric.

3. Cut up one side seam. I cut on either side of the seam, removing it completely, if that makes sense. Now you have a long panel of fabric, finished on the bottom. (The other side seam will be in the center of your panel. That’s OK.)

4. You can hem the top and sides now if you wish. I didn’t bother. Bad, I know.

5. Fold the sides under a bit (if you didn’t hem them).

6. Now fold the top of the panel down, to the back-the goal is to make a tube wide enough to slip over a curtain rod, so keep that in mind when you’re deciding how much to fold over.

7. Sew down the folded fabric.

Or not. I used silver all-purpose household adhesive fabric. What? You don’t know what that is? Blush. I can’t believe I’m admitting that I made a curtain with duct tape. But who would know? No one will see the back side of the curtain.

8. Slide onto a curtain rod and hang. You’re all done! How easy was that?!

Now if someone can just tell me a simple way to hide that hideous wall paper…