Jazzed up Roman shades!

 We bought plain white Roman shades for our kitchen windows about 5 years ago from Lowe’s or Home Depot, I can’t remember which store. We have 3 places that we use the shades…one over the kitchen sink and 2 on our french door.  The ones on our door started to look a little tattered from our Labby Lou Lou nosing them.  She does what I refer to as the curtain dance when she wants attention or has to go potty. …it’s kind of funny at times (she pushes it back and forth, flips it away from the window, goes under it)… the bad thing is we never know for sure  if she really has to go outside until we get up to let her out and she’s not interested.  She never barks… side note, if you have a Lab, does yours bark very often?? 

Back to the shades….

We decided to go with the exact same shades because we are still really happy with them.

Here are the details of what I’m doing in case you’re interested in my jazzed up version 🙂 Other people have probably done this before, so if you’ve seen this in blogland sorry for the repeat…

Here’s our current plain shade….

 

I purchased some ribbon at JoAnn fabrics (used my coupon like I knew I should) also bought some stitch witchery along with new shades from Lowe’s.

 

Next I decided where I wanted the ribbon to be located on the shade. I almost did the whole outer rim, but switched to this design at the last minute. Next I removed the stays from each section… Now to find something to measure with….

Here is what I decided to use for my guide…a recipe card 🙂 I had to find something that visually worked. I don’t know if you can see in the pic but I lined it up with the outer edge of the shade and the ribbon (I accidentally moved the card a tad when I snapped the pic)

 

Next the ironing process…..  I cut pieces of the stitch witchery and laid the ribbon on top and ironed the ribbon down. There is probably a better way to line up the ribbon…maybe a yard stick. It might be easier to glue or find stitch witchery that you can iron to the ribbon first. This is how I did it…often without a real long thought out plan.

 

 I proceeded to add ribbon down both sides of the shade and a little section across the top.

 

 

 

 

 

Now on to the next window! PS I didn’t sew the corners of the ribbon in the photo below… I just folded it and added stitch witchery under the ribbon and pressed it….worked out great!!.

 

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