Shower Curtain Extension

Here's the tutorial on my pleated shower curtain extension, that I promised!

Once again... I'm sharing, because I am a fan of "how-to's"... but keep in mind... I am STILL just learning how to sew. lol.  and have a LOT to learn!

The whole reason I wanted to do this extension was because I wanted to raise the shower bar up about 6 or 7 inches, to make the room feel a bit taller... BUT regular shower curtains just... don't come long enough.

Enter the shower curtain extension!

(PS... thanks for all the comments about what color I should do on the bottom panel!  It's why I chose the pink!... I love my readers!)

First I started by cutting about 10 inches (width) and DOUBLE my shower curtain's length, of pink fabric in 2 strips.

(so it would be long enough, once you pleat.  I actually didn't use QUITE the double length.)

I ironed it all out, so that it was easy to work with

(you may not have to do this, if YOUR kids don't use your fabric as capes, dresses, and blankets, before YOU actually get to it. lol)

I then sewed the two pieces together... and ironed down the seam, so it was nice and flat...

like this.

then I ironed down a seam, guide, so I didn't need any pins, to make straight lines, to sew the edges all nice.

Once all edges were sewn... I started the "pleating" process.

This DID take some time, but it wasn't too bad.

I just gathered the material in one direction, and pinned, and then the other direction, and pinned.

Like so!

Once that was done, I sewed along the top line of the pleats, to keep them together.

Then I attached, with pins, the pleat.. to the bottom of the shower curtain.

Like so.

Sewed a straight line, to combine both of those.

I sewed farther down, leaving all this material on the back... because I didn't need QUITE all that length, I thought.... but if you actually MEASURE you're length first, from your shower curtain, to your floor... you'll be fine.

(who has the time to bother with THOSE kinda details. **blush**)

The front will look like this!

And now, finished!

There you go!  A shower curtain extension.

So easy.

It totally makes the room feel bigger... having that rod up, even 6 inches more!

Okay... so you could TOTALLY use a super cute bed skirt for this too!
but I just couldn't find the right color... so I used fabric.

Seriously though... you could skip MOST of these steps, if you found a bed skirt that worked!!!