More curtains? No worries!

Start with a roll of butcher paper, some tape and a felt-tip marker.

Make a template for each window, showing gasket outlines and where the rods go through bulkhead brackets.

Make the first cut of the fabric fearlessly (after measuring and re-measuring).

Stitch up the hems, headers, footers and rod pockets.

Hang'em up.

Deploy a 3-pound hammer and a chisel to crack two epoxied rod brackets off the bulkhead so they
can be re-positioned correctly.

Curtains for one window completed. Five more sets to go.

Unfortunately, this installation was not as easy as it may appear to be.

My friend Erena made the two-panel curtain set pictured here from the template we traced for the port window in the forward cabin.

But, the curtains would not fit the port window at all. I tried them on the other side and they didn't fit there either -- until I whacked those rod brackets loose. (Click the photo to enlarge so you can see how far the brackets had to move).

So what happened? The cabin's side windows are not rectangular. They are wedge-shaped, with the taller ends toward the aft end of the cabin. Our curtain panels are rectangles. It seems to me that we must have accidentally fitted the curtain rod pockets to the shorter end of the window opening.

Chalk up another learning experience!

On the  positive side, this pair worked out anyway and I like the look of the result. But, we will probably try something different on the next set of panels.

Please stay tuned for more exciting developments.