Voiles - Updating

So while I was doing up my kitchen, mother decided that I should make some voile curtains for our lounge door, as chiffon is my area of speciality and fix the screw fittings back into the wall, even though the kitchen had not been finished. She had already put some screw fittings into the wall and made some none see through polyester curtains for it years ago and it had pulled out of the wall, because it is hollow plaster board, despite her super gluing the fixture to the wall (don't ask me why, I didn't do any of the DIY work previously) and the curtain wasn't particularly heavy. She believes visitors can see well past two front doors into the lounge even if doors is at angle with privacy film on one and frosted glass on the other, this is one of the reasons I get into arguments with my mother, as it is totally ridiculous.

My self-centred neighbours are constantly trying to spread that I'm a pampered princess type, when in fact they are the ones sipping up from their silver spoon in delusion with prince/ss syndrome. 

My mother is selfish and likes to show off when her skills can be lacking at times, manipulative, unsupportive, nosy, interfering, stingy human being. She does this only to me and not my sibling. She is quite two faced, she'll act differently in front of her friends acting like she is very caring towards me, at home she is nonchalant, ignorant and extremely patronising. It is a love and hate relationship, she is about 10% nice, she can be very nasty,  rude for the rest of the 90% and talks behind my back thinking I don't know.

I was mentally and physically abused by both my parents as a child, my mother however would call it punishment (that includes locking me in the garden shed and caning for not doing as I was told or doing my school work or a scapegoat for my sibling). I spent most of my life translating, writing and correcting her homework and doing household chores as a kid even now she only calls my name to do these, then having to put with her PMS and now kid like temper tantrums (ever seen a sixty-five year old roll and kick their feet). She use to joke about old people acting like kids when they retire and grow old, now she is exactly that.

I might as well reveal what she really is every time we have an argument, I need to let out that anger and resentment I built up over the years towards her. When I just started secondary school, she accused me of pushing my sibling down the stairs at home. All I knew was my sibling hit themselves on a radiator at the bottom of the stairs on the head, she started screaming and cursing me for no reason like she always does. After rushing my sibling to hospital to have their head stitched, and several days later when my sibling recovered, my sibling confessed that they had slipped on their "reading book bag". Yes, my sibling is a clutz, and there was not ever an apology. I wrote in my English poem with the final line ending in "s/he fell down the stairs", my English teacher had such a horrified look on her face, but nothing came from it. I was actually quite a blockhead as a kid.

At the moment, she is so stuck on the China Hong Kong situation that she has become ridiculously biased in her opinions and somewhat paranoid thinking (says the Chinese government can spy on your phone in the UK, follow you, check passport and bank details and take all your money out), she is also worshipping Trump. She claims all the food coming from China coming to Britain is poisonous or fake goods. So if you ever come across my home and we're arguing, that will be one of the reasons. If you don't want to get in to an argument with my mother, never mention China, Hong Kong or Trump and remove yourself from the conversation when she brings it up, because she regularly will bring it up and then blame it on you. 

My mother and sibling always stick up for each other, so I have no one on my side, I don't think living with them is good for my mental wellbeing, but given the situation I am stuck with them, hope I don't ending as their unpaid care worker in the future, but that will be unlikely as I will refuse. My sibling is somewhat similar in personality, but not to that extent thank goodness, but thinks everything has to go their way, even a tiny tap on the floor and they'll run in to my room and yes this did happen, I was trying on some shoes (I feel like I'm living in a prison sometimes). So if you are being malicious and patronising in any way towards me, it will likely be you who will take my wrath.

When I was a child, I was made to clean the kitchen along with my sibling. However, I got the side of the kitchen with lots of kitchen units, fridge freezer, cooker, sink, back door, window and all the worktops. My sibling got one tiny kitchen unit, a radiator, two flat internal doors and a small wall opening. When I asked to swap sides for a few weeks, I was told by my mother that I was bullying my sibling who is less than a year younger than me. To this day she claims she treats us equally, I think I was around nine or ten at the time. On 24 April 2022, she hit me on the back of the head for no reason at all, all I was doing was preparing dinner. I fed up of her cocky, platonic lying, think she can get away with it attitude, pure nastiness now, she's like a replica of my nasty neighbours.

Well I suggested putting the fixture into the door frame eventually because even with a metal drill bit and all other drill bits, it failed to enter the wall due to a metal frame surrounding in the door frame and use a lighter weight curtain, I will patch up the holes she made in the wall later temporarily until we redecorate that area of the house.

So my mother had brought this fabric in Allders apparently, can't vouch for that as she has a tendency to forget things all the time, only those who worked in Allders at the time can say. This is a polyester cream chiffon raw edged cut fabric with printed leaves of brown and gold, she had brought around 4 metres of it (a habit that both of us share), I have made two voile curtains out of it.

Raw edged fraying voile fabric with shelvage.

The fabric obviously has two sides of one centimetre wide shelvage (to none fashion students, the two woven edges of fabric on the roll where fabric does not fray and unravel), I have pin hemmed it using my own special technique of sealing the fraying edges and one single row of stitches to hem chiffon fabrics (most students are taught to sew two row of stitches and my show off tutors at university expected me to ask them for help and was surprised of the technique I used on my own to do this when they had asked me).

Shelvage on one side with chiffon hem, with single row of of stitching.

Frayed edges have been sealed and hemmed, at the top have sewn a channel to allow net rod to be inserted.

(image to be inserted as I have not take photographs of it yet)

(completed net curtain, also have to take photograph of it hopefully before the year ends)