DIY roman blinds to shield us from the wintery draft

our hanging out area in the house has been unbearably cold of late... the fridge themometer hovers around the 13-15 degree mark... just thinking about it sends shivers down my spine...
in order to keep warm, we have been turning on the gas heater constantly... but the heat has been escaping into the corridor... until now...

we have now got our custom made cafe LF roman blind to close off the area... now we can keep warm and feel cosy!
the whole project started as i got my bargain material from AS-IS Ikea... $1 per sofa cover (and i ended up with 10 of those)... some of them have been reincarnated into seat covers...
"so what to do with the rest?"
"ah-ha! roman blinds!"
after much searching on the internet, i found this excellent video!
http://www.viddler.com/explore/Blinds/videos/1/
after one viewing, i thought, " i could do that!"

i first sewed a "blanket" large enough to cover the arched doorway out of the bits of material recovered from dismantling the AS-IS chair covers... had to use the 2 tones due to lack of material... but good that it ended up as "L" - for cafe LF!

the bits and pieces i got from "material world" and "bunbuns" - pine dow rods x 10)rectangular pine rods (one large one small), plastic loops x30, eyelets (3 needed, bought 1 packet), thin string 10m, backing material (bought at reverse garbage), velcro...
first the backing was sewn to the "blanket"...
for every 20cm, i have folded the "blanket" (5cm in length) and have sewn a space to secure the dow rod...


measured...
pinned...

and abit of sewing...
the larger pine rod was to be encased material with velcro sewed onto its length...
the other pine rod was secured into the bottom of the "blanket" to weigh the "blanket" down...
inserting 6mm pine dow rods here...
loops were sewn to the backing material... 3 spaced along each pine dow rod casing...
took me a whole week to get here!


now the three eyelets screwed on the rod...
threading through the loops - there would to be three columns of loops... each column would have its own string... first a knot was tied at the bottom loop of each column where the string would start... string would be threaded through up the "blanket" through all the loops in the column until it arrived at the eyelet on the pine rod up the top... then the string would travel horizontally, passing through the other eyelets until it reached the side of the blinds where we would open the close the blind...

from the backside of the blind...

lovely!
lets draw the curtains...
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more...

and get warm... L for cafeLF!