There's a small but wide window above our bed for which I'd hoped to buy a roman blind. I looked all over town and couldn't find a ready-made blind to fit. But then I remembered that last year, my self-sufficient sister decked out her entire house in blinds that she had made herself. When I asked her about it, she waved her hand casually and said it was easy- 'anyone could do it.' Turns out it wasn't so easy for me. I bought some warm curtain fabric to fit the window. I got all the little rings, strings and a book about blind-making. But how to put them all together was beyond me.
Then I got this great book from the library, and realised I could make a simpler window covering that was just a rectangle of fabric with hooks, that could be looped up during the day and unlooped at night. For some reason, it ended up being one of the trickiest thing I've sewn in years, and I have no idea why, except to say that I'm seriously lacking skill when it comes to making practical things. (I'd rather sew a lined chiffon dress than a curtain, for example.) I thought I'd measured and cut the fabric carefully, but the finished result was rather lop-sided and wonky. And the fabric I chose to line the blind was more drapey than the other layer, and kept shifting and moving while I was sewing them together, which resulted in many unpickings and swear words. Hopefully, no one will ever look too closely at it and I'll just pretend this was already in the house when we moved in.
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