Bad Mom!!

Lulu is a big fan of Fancy Nancy books and asked if we could make her room more fancy, so in June I promised a canopy.  I kept putting it off because I kept having visions of the cat jumping to the top and then sliding all the way down (a la the Siamese cats in Lady and the Tramp).  The cat no longer lives with us and I was beyond overdue on this project.

I purchased the net panels at Ikea two years ago.  (Oh, how I miss you, Ikea.)  Back then I had a different project in mind.  I was thinking about something for a playroom when we moved.  But we moved into a house that doesn’t have a playroom.  So the panels waited and waited for a purpose.  To get them to tent I stitched each panel to a strip of fabric (a retro ballerina print) at the top.  I had to stitch along the twill tape at the top of the net panels because the net is so slippery.  Then I stitched the two strips together at the very top and finished up by stitching lower to create a tube for the dowel to go through.  We used a 48″ dowel cut in half and put a wooden drawer pull on the end to act as a finial.  To really fancy it up we glued over 100 ribbon roses and 4 ribbon butterflies on it.  Lulu gasped and told us it was “really super beautiful”

Here’s the view from her pillow -