Out with the old . . .

I've lived in my beautiful 775 sq. ft. home for over 8 years now.  I lived with some really ugly IKEA tab curtains for the first couple of months until I could figure out what to do . . . and at that time I was making all kinds of things out of scrap pieces of upholstery fabric (made at least two blankets) and I made a patchwork blind for the kitchen.

It's survived 7+ years, I'm bored and I saw an awesome piece of fabric at my favourite fabric store and got busy.

I used the same method I did for the original blind (roman) using simple math . . . although math is not my strongest point and I was out about 2 inches on both sides because I probably got distracted and measured once and cut instead of measuring twice and cutting once . . . pisses myself off!

But they're done and here's the proof!  My most awesome sister was there to help!

Obviously I sewed them first - added (not enough) inches to either side and to the top and bottom and lined them.  Then I sewed roman blind loops in four evenly spaced sections and ran nylon thread through the loops.  Then secured them at the end with a special knob with a hole in the end, knotted the nylon thread and because the cleat was still there from the old roman blind I didn't need to add that.  I also kept the pieces of wood from the old blind (top and bottom).  The old blind is going to the condo in Radium and they will never be opened or closed so it wasn't necessary for my sister to keep that and I needed them to keep my costs down.  She had a piece of wood at home to use for the top so all was good.

I stapled the top of the blind down to the 1X2

I covered the exposed end with a scrap piece of fabric so you couldn't see the wood

Made sure it was level (and it was)

Screwed the old piece back over the window in the same place as the old one

And Voila! - I think they are awesome - the walls are yellow but you can't tell in the picture!

No sooner did my sister leave and the loop at the end broke (they are all plastic) so I had to replace it with a metal one!

TOTAL COST:  $62.00
TOTAL TIME:  Sewing - 4 hours; Installation - 1 hour (I had to remove the staples from the old blind so I could reuse the wood)