My sewing machine was bought last year specifically for the purpose of making curtains, so I couldn't really wiggle out of it. How hard could it be to sew a square? Pretty hard as it turns out! The six foot stretch meant that the material was big and heavy. Being inside the bay, meant that I couldn't just make blinds that were a few inches larger than the window and hang them over the sides window on each end. Everything had to match up to a quarter of an inch. I found it very challenging to sew a 6 foot perfectly straight line! At least it is done now.
The hardware that we bought for these blinds is fantastic by the way. Everything just glides up and down. The blinds themselves may be a bit wonky, but they glide! We paid just a hair over £100 for the hardware/fixings for all three blinds. This is less than a single track would have been using Silent Gliss, like we saw at John Lewis department store. We got them from curtainsware on the web. It was a real find.
I had fallen in love with a Colefax and Fowler embrodiered linen fabric at £122 per meter! In the end we decided not to go for it. Thank goodness. All my stress with getting these things sewn would have been so much worse, if I had been sewing with such expensive material. Instead, we went to the Curtain Factory Warehouse in Finchley. Everything there is £6.99 per meter. (They claim to have all designer stuff. Well, maybe. If so, the designer stuff is all pretty out of date. It's a real hodge podge, but at least it is cheap.)
We picked out some simple, printed, cotton fabric from Sanderson. It's fine. If we recover the couches down the line, when the kids get older, we can change the blinds then.
