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My New Craft Room: Window treatments (and how I made them)

by on May 10, 2007

Blue and green lined window treatment on a window with wood trim around its border.

Now that the big pieces were completed, I could turn to the fluff, which included window treatments. I had just enough fabric left over from my chair make-over to sew a simple valance. And I mean REALLY simple.

All I did was measure the interior width of my window and added about an inch to each side and about 4 inches to the bottom for hemming and attachment. HOWEVER, you could easily use a table runner or even a rectangular scarf for your curtain, letting the ‘tails’ hang, OR you could just rip the fabric to size. Either option eliminates the sewing.

(A note about hemming: I turned the sides under a half inch, pressed, turned under another half inch, and then sewed a seam. For the hem, I turned under about ½ inch and then turned under an additional 2 inches or so and finished up with a blind hem stitch. You could, of course, sew a simple top-stitch seam here.)

A striped, long window treatment on a table.
Window screen DIY by using old clothes.

The rest is easy. I took a couple scraps of oak (about 3/4″ by 1/4″ thick) cut to fit the inside measurement of my window. I stapled the curtain to the wood and then tacked the wood into place inside my window frame. HOWEVER, I’m thinking you could attach your valance with sticky-back Velco too.

A wooden window with a reaper and glass, hand made in hiome.
''A tree was seen throw the brown coloured window .''

Tomorrow’s post: art supply shelf

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