How to make blinds with your own hands made of fabric?

Blinds - very convenient and practical thing. They are good to protect the room from sunlight and foreign views, occupy little space compared to the curtains, they are convenient to use. Make blinds with your own hands made of fabric is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance.

Curtains and blinds

Empty windows, especially in the dark, from the side of the room look somehow uncomfortable and somewhat frightening. And to get rid of this impression, to protect the room and people there from extraneous views, the windows are hidden behind all sorts of special adaptations - curtains, curtains, curtains and blinds. By the way, the word "curtains" came from the French store, which means "blind." But the word "blinds" - a derivative of the French jalousie, which, surprisingly, in translation means "jealousy". Maybe, it means that you know less - do you sleep more quietly? Probably, it was so. But one thing is clear: to this day, blinds - special devices on the windows that cover them completely or partially - are in high demand.

Blinds are different

Decorate the interior of the room is a matter of the taste of the owner or mistress. You can, of course, hire a designer who plans everything as he sees fit, although he will consult with the customer. But to develop the interior of your own house with your own strength, intelligence, imagination, and also create some important and beautiful things yourself - informative, interesting, entertaining, practical and economical. You can do, for example, blinds with their own hands made of fabric, wooden slats, plastic slats. Use of metal profiles and even paper is allowed. For any needlewoman the most convenient and practical option is to make blinds on the windows with your own hands made of fabric.

Such window protectors are vertical, horizontal and roll. However, rolls are more often called curtains, and not blinds, although the essence remains the same. An interesting version of horizontally located protection and decoration for windows - Roman blinds.

Cloth, accessories, tools

Before you make blinds with your own hands made of cloth, the home master will prepare everything you need to work and get a quality result, so as not to be distracted in search of the necessary in the process of creativity. For fabric curtains, whatever they are, you will need:

• Fabric in the following quantities: the size of the window opening + width to the hem + width of the necessary sewn accessories (if it is needed for the design of the blinds) + decorative length, for example, on the folds.
• Threads for the manufacture of blinds.
• Strong cord for fitting the rotary device. Depending on the design of the blinds, the cord may take 3-4 lengths compared to the length of the fabric, so it is better to buy a cord with a margin.
• Tools - pliers, thick needle.
• Accessories - rings, hangers, sliders for slats.
• Liquid Nails.
• Two-sided and one-sided scotch.
• The long ruler.
• Pencil.

This is all necessary for the manufacture of protection and decoration for windows. For a particular model, one or another fittings and fasteners will be required. It is convenient to use special sets for the manufacture of blinds, sold in specialized stores.

How simple!

The simplest way to make blinds with your own hands made from fabric is the sewing of Roman curtains. Although this version of the light protection design can be different - with or without lamellae, with different types of blinds installed along the window opening - inside, outside or on the frame. But it is this kind of variation in the manufacture of blinds with their own hands from the fabric that will help step by step even those who have never engaged in anything similar in their lives.

Calculation of fabric for Roman blinds

If we correctly approach the preliminary stage of any work-the calculation of the material, construction of the structure, careful planning of all the stages, the result will only please. The same applies to the manufacture of blinds from the fabric with their own hands.

The master class should begin with the calculation of the required amount of tissue. It is done simply - the expected height and width of the blinds + 2 centimeters on the hem to the right and left, and also from the top. On the bottom, you need to add centimeters 10, because in the lower gate you need to insert a weight bar. It is also possible to provide a larger valve from above if it is intended to make the blind one as a whole together with the cornice. You will also need a back sheet. It is calculated as follows: the height and width of the light shield + 2 centimeters per fold on all sides. If as a weighting agent for each crease it is supposed to sew the needles, then the length of the underside should be increased as follows: the number of folds is multiplied by the double thickness of the spoke plus a centimeter to fit freely.

Beauty in the folds

Blinds with vertical folds will look very impressive, if the wrinkles are exactly the right amount - no more, no less. Masters who manufacture such window decorative draperies are advised to choose the number of folds from 5 to 9. If you take less turns, the blinds will be too simple, and more folds will make the window too conspicuous. Since the folds should be at the same distance from each other, the calculation is made by simple division - the height of the opening is divided by the selected number of folds. The result is the height of one fold.

This option is most suitable if the folds are rigidly attached to plastic lamellae. If this option is selected, then you can use the old horizontal blinds. If the folds on the idea should be soft, then the old blinds are not needed, and the drape of the raised canvas is formed freely. If you look at the blinds made of cloth by your own hands, photo Which are presented below, it is possible to understand how creases form on similar curtains.

The process of construction

Sew the blinds with your own hands from the fabric can be, proceeding to the stage-by-stage work. First you need to measure the area of the window on which the blinds will be placed. For example, on the window frame. If the blinds should protrude through the walls, then it is necessary to provide a width of such projections on both sides of the window opening. Having measured the right amount of facial tissue, it is necessary to sweep the gateways on the right and left side, from above and a wide turn from below, into which the weighting bar will fit. It is best done from a wooden plate - it is light enough not to damage the whole structure, including the cornice.

Now on the underside of the same way to sweep the hem on all sides. Mark the same distances for folds.

• If you need to insert the knitting needles, the pockets under them should be stitched or manually sewed.
• If lamellas are used from old horizontal aluminum blinds, they are neatly glued to the markings. By the way, in this way you can get a full-fledged design, removing unnecessary lamels from old blinds, pushing the remaining ones to the desired distance, while retaining the guiding cords of the whole structure. The lamellas are glued neatly, without affecting the place where the cords pass, for their free movement.

Lifting mechanism

What is interesting about blinds as a means of protecting windows? By his method of work. After all, in a straightened form, they fully or partially close the survey, and in the folded state they occupy very little space. This effect is obtained by lifting or turning (if it is a vertical structure) mechanism. It seems that this is something complicated, but in fact everything is genius, as always, simple. Two or three cords are freely passed through special rings, evenly placed on the panel. At the top they also pass through rings fixed on the eaves, and are connected to a single cord equipped with a suspension.

• If you sew blinds from the fabric with your own hands from the beginning to the end, only from improvised materials, the mechanism for lifting the folds will be elementary and require an additional locking device in the form of hooks next to the blinds - on the wall, the window opening, on the window frame. For these hooks will need to cling cord with a suspension, so that the blinds do not open.
• If you are using old blinds or a special purchase mechanism, then there is nothing extra to equip, because all the locking elements are already inside the eaves.

Final assembly

So, the two panels are ready. If there is a sewing experience on the machine, you can immediately insert the knitting needles and sew the fabric with a seam along the very edge. You can connect the front and back portions, leaving room for the spokes, then turn out the curtain, iron it well and only then insert the knitting needles and the weighting bar. In this case, the holes for all parts can be sewn neatly by hand.

• Then, on the marking by hand, they sew the rings under the cords, taking both the front and the back panels.
• Now you can pass the cords through the rings, carefully fixing them on the lower rings.
• Screw special threaded rings into the wooden ledge and pass cords through them, gradually moving from one to the other.
• If it was stipulated, then with the help of Velcro tape, hide this bar. If this option was missed, then the curtains along the edge are attached to the bar using a construction stapler.
• All two or three cords at a distance provide weighting bead.
• Wooden bar-cornice to fix.

Care of blinds

Fabric blinds, created with their own hands, are convenient for their practicality. Especially if they have in the form of fasteners on the cornice ribbon-velcro (tape-Velcro). They can be easily removed and, without removing the knitting needles and knitting needles, from the dust simply by hands, in the suspended state such blinds will be straightened, and with the help of a steamer they can easily be brought to an ideal state directly on the weight without damaging the knitting needle and the weighting bar.

The only point: if the blinds are made of colored cotton or linen fabric, prone to shrinkage, then the fabric before work is best washed in hot water to check for molt and allow it to "sit down". Good luck!