Roman Blinds

 

I got some of the blinds cut out today and the backing for them as well. Hubby got the 1x2” boards cut and sanded for me to. Then I also cut some blind slats I want to use as my dowel rods. lol In the directions I have it calls for dowel rods to make the folds look nice and crisps but I cut the blind slats in half for them. Each roman blind will probably have like 4 in them.

It rained this evening some and hubby hit the pool afterwards and I decided to try it myself. I haven’t been going in the pool because it was messing up with my sinuses but since they were messed up today anyway I figured I would go for a swim. It sure was nice being back in it again!

I got the front part of the blinds cut in the length area but need to cut the width part now. I wanted to get all the windows cut so I could lay them out on the table and pick the prettiest area and center the pretty pink roses on the windows so it will have an even look.

I only got 2 of the backing fabrics cut but cut several of the pockets for where the blind slats will go that I cut to width. Hopefully I will feel up to at least putting one of the roman blinds together tomorrow. I got tired and just quit this evening so I wouldn’t wear myself out.

I know one thing, I sure am enjoying that really large table out there in the sewing room. I am SO HAPPY I didn’t get rid of it and I did come close to getting rid of it! But am soooooo glad I didn’t because it’s just wonnnnnderful having this large table to work on!

OK going to bed for now and just hoping tomorrow I can work on the blinds again.

Stay tuned for more and for some pix.

Roman Blinds for Sewing Room

Ok I am officially gathering the materials to get started on the roman blinds for this sewing room. Since I am not feeling very well these days it may take me a little while to get them made, but at least I am trying to get started on them.

This isn’t the fabric I would really love to make them out of but I am going to use it for the meantime because the fabric I’d like to have is not in the budget right now and I NEED something up over those 5 windows instead of a piece of raw un-hemmed darkening fabric. lol As you can see from the photo below. So since I have this already and it needs to be used……. and I wanted pink in here with my green……

I bought a rather large piece of upholstery fabric a couple years ago to cover a couple chairs with and did one of them and that mess stretched so bad I wasn’t going to do the other one with it. You can also see the fabric on the table. It’s not really that thick and I think it will work really well for the blinds. I am going to put the darkening fabric stuff on the inside of the blinds because the sewing room is on the west and it gets pretty hot on these windows. There are 4 windows on the front and one on the other end of it which is on the south.

The white sheets you see on the table will be the backing of the blinds. I am going to make them to lay flat on the outside of each window instead of on the inside of it.

Hopefully it will rain again this evening so I can get out there and cut out my 1x2” boards for the top of the blinds. It’s really hot out there right now and since I have not felt very well I really don’t need to be out there in that. Need to keep this blood pressure down.

So I will plug along at these blinds until I get them finished. Just stick with me on this project and we’ll get er done. Actually the blinds aren’t hard to make at all. They are just time consuming. But I really like them because they’re so easily pulled up when you want your windows open or when you want some light in the room and also they look nice.

More to come later.

Sewing Room

My niece just bought her a house and I found something in it that I can make, and that I really like! I wanted a wall in my sewing room that’s on the end of the room to be a wall of shelves so I can put all my fabrics and all my jars of stuff on it. The folks that she bought the house from had made this in the walk in closet in the bathroom. I hope she doesn’t mind that I am sharing it on here. I don’t think she will. Anyway I want to make me one like this in the sewing room with 1x12” boards and the 1x2” ones.

A close up. I don’t know if you can see the 1x2’s or not but they just nailed those to the wall and sit the boards on those all the way down the wall and then they went back in and added the 1x2 strips on the front side of it. That’s what caught my attention because it makes it look nicer with the 1x2 strips over the boards fronts.

Really close up so you can see the 1x2’s that are nailed on the wall for the 1x12” boards to sit on.

I am trying to find jars like this to put my buttons and things in. This is what I want the shelves for. These jars are larger than they appear on here. They had candles in them. I had a couple myself and then my sister in law gave me 3 I believe it was. One I already had is larger than the ones she gave me but still the same shape and all.

And see my fabrics? Something else that I want to put on that shelf. This is the wall I want to do the shelves on to. It’s at the end of my sewing room.

I will probably paint the 1x2’s and the 1x12 boards the same color as the wall so it will blend in with the wall and not stand out. I want the fabrics and the clear jars of things to be what you see and not the shelf.

OK that’s it for today.

Back to Working on the Sewing Room Again

Yep I have been moving in the fabric trying to get it all in here so I can start putting it on the bolts to get it organized. So I started putting it on the bolts today and am seeing I had just as much fabric as I thought I had.  

I will have to get me some more of the foam boards since I am running a little low on them now. I had sit and cut them back in February so they would be ready to wrap.

Anyway I wanted to come back on here and let you all know I am not missing in action and that I am working on this room again and to show you some proof.

I plan on making me some shelves to put the fabric and the jars of thread and buttons but I need to make my supports for my table for the sewing machines first. THEN I can do the shelves. At this end of the room where the bolts of fabric are I want to make the shelves the width of the room with is like 9-10’ wide. I have a dresser sitting there right now but trying to decide just where this dresser can go so I can have that whole wall for shelves!

The shorter pieces of fabrics will go on the smaller foam boards as you can see. I am just getting started so this is not all my fabric. I gave my sister a lawn a leaf trash bag full last summer and I do HOPE she’s using it.

I plan to start on my roman blinds really soon. I am trying to decide if I want to use the fabric I have on hand already or to try and find some that I fell in love with the other day on the internet. I want the room to be pink and green with some black as well. The walls are green and I want the green and the pink in the roman blinds as well as some white in them since I’d like to put some of the old fashioned ball trim on them.

We also finally got the table in here that I wanted in here. I put down some plastic on the floor to protect it because I plan on putting a couple more coats of varnish on it. I’ve been sick with some kind of sinus crud so I knew I better not varnish it yet with this mess! LOVE this table for my sewing room but it was too large for our dining room! Hubby and I along with the guy that built our home built this table over 20 years ago. So I said well, while I am healing I can sit and wrap my bolts and then I have the laces and trims to wrap to. Got bunches of that to!  2 large bags to be exact!

Anybody wanna come help me?

Ok let me get back to wrapping bolts.

Stay tuned and be patient with me because with hubby home these days I have to choose days I can do my things.

Rose