After a much needed sushi and wine dinner date with a few of my lovlies (this stay at home mom stuff is hard work sometimes), Em & I trekked back to the house to start one of my summer projects. LeeAnn posted a link quite a while for no sew roman shades and I immediately knew I wanted to try and make some for the girls' room. We also used The Little Green Notebook's instructions. I am glad that Emilie came over to help since she has a few high tech tools to cut fabric. Okay, and it was nice to have some company gettin' our craft on. Em & I completed one of the three on Friday night. Last night, I made the second and tomorrow, she is going to help me measure, cut and construct the third. I would definitely recommend this project. It was pretty simple and I was pretty happy with the end result. I can see a few minor flaws, but they were also made with love.
If you are interested in making roman shades, these are a few things I learned and would definitely do differently next time.
I would not worry about the hem tape. Frugal home ideas used hem tape to attach her ribbon. We used it on the first pair and I ditched it on the second. Fabric glue works just fine.
Next, I would definitely get thicker fabric next time around. I never thought about this, but my fabric was a little thin.
Frugal home ideas also counted every 6th slat and kept it in place. Em & I did this the first time and the second pair, I took every slat off, set aside the ones I wanted and measured every six inches, attached them back in place on the two strings and then glued them. Does that make sense? It was easier just to run my scissors over every string, remove them all and then put them back in place.
The only two strings that will be left are the ones pictured here. I was hesitant in removing the other strings that kept the blinds in place, but that is what the fabric glue is for. All you will need to keep is the two main strings on each side that you string each slat into .
I will definitely remember this idea in the future for any other window that might need a little facelift.
5 comments:
oh I cannot wait to see them hanging!!
These look FABULOUS! I sooo need to do this with our ratty, cheap blinds. When we moved in I just bought the super duper cheap, under $10 plastic blinds for every window in the house because I can't stand to have an open window at night. But of course, the boys have demolished oh, probably 3/4 of them and they look terrible. Do you plan to put this underneath curtains? Does this look okay under curtains?
You did a great job on these Leslie! I also just used fabric glue. Ive only done the one set for my bathroom, but might be doing some for my kitchen window soon. :)
WOW! Those are just awesome!
They look awesome!!! Wonderful job! :)
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