No-Sew Window Treatments (A Follow-Up)

I’ve received lots of questions/comments regarding the No-Sew Window Shades I blogged about a few days ago.  A lot of people want to know more about them, so I thought it might be worth a follow-up featuring several different types of no-sew window treatments.  There are many different types and a variety of techniques you can use.

Discovering the “no-sew” method has been so much fun for me.  Considering I haven’t touched a sewing machine since 7th grade Home Economics class, the no-sew route was definitely for me.  Don’t get me wrong, I’d LOVE to learn to sew, and someday I plan on investing the time and money in a sewing machine and possibly some lessons.  After all, it IS a little embarrassing that my husband has to go to his mother anytime he needs a pair of pants hemmed.  But I’m good at other things, like being a mommy, and making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and…. well I’ll think of more things later.  I’d like to point out that the lovely little hot pink gym bag that I made in the aforementioned Home Economics class earned stellar reviews from my teacher, and I’m sure I got an A.  Or at least an A-.  But for now, I’ll just improvise and use the no-sew technique.  Whatever it takes to NOT spend a fortune on window coverings.

Anyway, once again here are the window treatments that I made:

Here is the Imparting Grace Tutorial I used to make the Roman Shade.  Check out my original blog post to see how I slightly modified it.

Here are the supplies that I used for this project:
Fabric; Scissors; Yard Stick; Disappearing ink fabric pen (to mark my lines for cutting and folding); Fabric glue; Iron; 3 pressure curtain rods.

[Sidenote: Check out this Roman shade from Evolution of Style, where she used the same tutorial and method I did, but thought outside the box and used a tablecloth as the fabric!]

For the matching valance, I only used one pressure rod.  Here is what I did:

Cut the fabric (both the patterned fabric for the front and the white canvas for the backing) to the width of my window, adding an inch on each side for a hem. Cut the length to 12 inches (an inch hem at top and bottom) because I wanted the final length to be approx. 10 inches.
I then used fabric glue and an iron to hem all of the edges.  After the hem was complete, I glued the top and bottom of the white canvas to the back side of my gray fabric.  I then inserted the pressure rod between the 2 panels of fabric.  That’s all!  So easy.