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Making Shades

The window blinds in my studio have been breaking one by one. It’s a sunroom, so there are 6 of them to go! I’m taking it as an interesting challenge to come up with some homemade curtains!

So far I have two ideas, one is from Kaffe Fassett‘s book “Passionate Patchwork”. It’s a shabby chic pastel patchwork curtain which I’ve already started. Here’s a peek.

As you can see, I’ve got three rows done, well actually now it’s four, but this is the photo I took yesterday. I love the way the sun shines through and makes an extra pattern of squares. (click on the first image to see what I mean!) The squares are purposely a little rough and raw edges are all exposed, but that’s why I say “shabby chic”, it will fit in well in my place of work!  But I’m afraid a whole wall of all these little squares would be a little overwhelming, so I think I better just do one window…then something else on the other windows. Maybe solids with borders or valances made of those squares. What do you think?

The second idea is a curtain with some pockets for small lightweight storage. (needlebook, tape measure,  spools of thread, little scissors, etc.) I saw the idea on Ikea.com, but I don’t want it to LOOK anything like their version, which is primary blocks of color. So I’m still working this idea out. Any suggestions?

2 Comments

  • Emma, I love these… How about just a strip of three rows of squares across the curtains, with a solid making up the rest of the curtain? That way, you would have the squares in each window, but not “just” squares and not overwhelming. I love the idea of pocket curtains, too….might have to try and find those in the Ikea catalog!

    January 26, 2010 at 10:08 am
  • Your patchwork curtain looks really cute!

    January 31, 2010 at 11:37 pm