My new career as a seamstress*

I didn’t use to have curtains in my living room — the apt. is er south-east facing, so it has sun in the mornings and afternoons when I’m at work. But after I started working more from home, it got to be ridiculous — I had to move around all day to avoid having the sun shining in my face. (Especially in winter when the sun is lower in the sky.) So five years ago I wandered into a curtain store and said “I need some curtains”, and the expeditress said “like, what colour? style? look?”. Never having considered curtain design before in my life, the question was rather sudden and I said “er… something light? and abstract, perhaps” and then she pulled out a fabric sample of this: And I said sure, and a few months later I got them… and… er… I did not like the curtains. At all! What was I thinking! Wut! Gngng. But I just hung them up and lived with my mistake. But we were chatting about curtains on irc one day (as one does) and somebody mentioned Svenskt tenn, a Swedish company that had lots…