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out the roman blinds on this site! I made one for our bedroom. Agood way to combine piecing with window coverings!
No quilting for awhile.
Aug 30, 2007
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Gosh, these could really tempt a person with windows!!! And I thoroughly dislike making curtains etc. Could these cure me I wonder?!! They're beautiful. . In message , Susan Torrens writes
Wow what a brilliant idea! Elly
Wow! Those are amazing! I wonder .... ;)
That's what we have right now, Roberta! Vertical blinds on all of the windows, nothing else. I love them. :)
Howdy!
I've made curtains so often, just the simple kind, a hem in the bottom, a hem in the top w/ a little hem above that. For our front room I got extra yardage of quilting fabrics, fell in love w/ the colors & prints, and did the simple "window treatments".
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that I had hemmed some cutwork tablecloths (also on sale,as was the quilt fabric) and hung those for curtains (had severalfriends ask "where'd you get the custom drapes?!" ). I'm tired of the curtains in our bedroom so I've found some moretablecloths to hem & hang. As soon as I paint a lighter shade ofyellow on the walls, those new "curtains" will be installed. ;-) I don't sew much on the machine, but I can hem w/ the best of 'em!W/ the curtains partly open &/or furniture in front of them, it doesn'teven matter if the hemming is very-very straight. LOL R/Sandy-- curtains-shmertans: I need more time for quilting (curtains on the north & east sides of this house don't need thick lining; windows on the west *hot* side of the house are shaded by shrubbery)
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OMGoodness, Sandy! I *love* the quilt on the chair with all those luscious shades of coffee ( or would that be chocolate ; ) ). Great idea to make your window treatments out of different fabrics.
- dlm. in central MA 'who has been given inspiration to complete her "Double Shot of Espresso, Please" quilt '
Wishing you lots of fun sewing your new window treatments!
- dlm. in central MA
Howdy!
Thankyouverymuch!
That's CheksMix ...kind of like ChexMix without the trademark infringement >>:
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Browns is good fabrics.
R/Sandy
One room down and I don't know how many to go. Thankfully I won't have to do every room. I am not doing every window as some of them, I have done within the last year. I actually like sewing curtains. Yes they can be rather tiring as there are long stretches of straight sewing but I guess I like sewing so much that it all is good. I even like doing alterations, which seems to be the bane of most everybody on this forum from what I can tell. Some of them will be easy to do as they are small. I am thinking of doing Chocolate brown for my sewing room as the trim is kind of butterscotch and I am getting tired of the wheat colored ones that are up there now. I have come to like bold solid colors for my own spaces. Maybe it is a guy thing. We did do lots of colored ones in the common rooms but my own places are all bold solids. Now to rest for the weekend. Maybe ride the bike. Oh boy!
John
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