Asking a seamstress to mend is like asking Michelangelo to paint your garage.
~Unknown
Last summer Mr. Cottage and I finally bought some Hunter Douglas Honeycomb Duette shades for our living room window. We wanted something that would keep the cold air out in the winter months and to keep the setting sun out of our eyes. We love them, but the window was looking blah; so I decided to order more of the blue and white buffalo check fabric that was on our dining chairs and to make a valance for this window. I wanted something simple, nothing too ornate and finally settled on sewing an inverted box pleat valance...
We started by putting up a mounting board above the window and I had it extend 2 inches on each side of the window. For us, everything measured exactly 96 inches or 8 feet, so we didn't have to cut anything off of it. Mr. Cottage used L shaped brackets to support the board...
Because of this check, it was hard to tell what was top or bottom, so as I cut I marked L for left, B for bottom and T for Top...
For the center of the window valance, I marked with a pin and put in a C...
I did a Google search and found a number of sites and videos that showed how to sew this type of valance. One of the main ones I followed was from Beyond The Screen Door. The main difference between hers and mine was she added different fabric for the inside of her pleats and for the hem, whereas I left mine just one fabric. In looking around at different sites, I also decided to use some graph paper which I laid out on top of the fabric and played around and then marked off where seams, folds and centers would all be...
I'll share a few more tips and hints that I used on tomorrows blog posting.
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