Simple Tie-up Valance

I've been trying to figure out a way to dress up our kitchen bay window. We get such good light from this window that I didn't want to block out but it needed a little something on there. I found this adorable looking kitchen valance online ($40 for one panel! Yikes!) and thought I could duplicate it pretty well.

I bought a simple room-darkening curtain panel at Walmart for $7 and a couple of spools of ribbon for $4. I wanted the length of my curtains to be 18". The middle curtain is 54"x 18" and the smaller curtains are 23"x 18". I added 2" to the length so I could fold over the hem.

I read on a valance tutorial for this type of curtain to make the ribbon 2/3 the length of the curtain. I hot-glued the ribbon into a loop and attached a bow to the seam. Loop the ribbon onto the curtain and hang it up.

My middle window is pretty wide so I put three ribbons on it.

And here's a picture of the one from the store. Not  bad right???