We really loved this recent project which was for customers from London with a young family. They have a Victorian semi with a large bay window on the front of the house and at the opposite end of the large sitting/family room, tall French doors leading onto the garden.
The fabric the client fell in love with for the Roman blinds in the bay,was a colourful appliqued fabric by Harlequin and she asked us to design something colourful and unusual, for curtains on the french doors. We used a combination of three colours of Romo Linara – one of our favourite fabrics for these occasions. Well priced, a good colour range and easy to work with. Hard wearing too for upholstery or loose covers.
We cut and joined the main fabric then cut out the coloured sections as shown below;
The next step was to lay the strips onto the main curtain and machine stitch them into position, as the fabric frays a little we made certain we cut exactly with the grain of the fabric and used a strip of narrow iron on Bondaweb on the back of the fabric to hold it in position. The last stage of this process is to use a close together zig zag stitch to hold all the layers in place and complete the “appliqué” process. From this point we made the curtain up as normal with interlining and a pinch pleated heading. I am hoping to be able to add a picture of the completed curtains when I have the opportunity to visit.
In the meantime here is one last photograph taken in haste on the shipping date so I am afraid it isn’t arranged in a very artistic fashion. The checked fabric was used for a chair and footstool the sofas were of a neutral colour.
