Pieced Roman Shades book
Transform traditional or contemporary quilt patterns into functional Roman shades for your home's windows. Whether you choose simple log cabin or more advanced watercolor or Bargello designs, custom pieced Roman shades provide a versatile new way to display your personal style and fabric art.
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Step-by-step instructions for 4 innovative pieced Roman shade designs (Shadows, Oriental Delight, Illusions shade and Illusions valance).
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Learn how to customize designs to fit your home's existing decor
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Handy charts are included to help you measure the window, choose a properly scaled design, determine fabric and hardware needs
- Beautiful color photographs show a wide variety of design possibilities
- 112 pages, full color throughout, soft cover.
This book was written in 2000 and is intended for the quilter who wants to learn how to make a pieced Roman shade. If you are only making a one-fabric shade, look over the Table of Contents carefully to make sure that you will be happy with this book. It is not as detailed as the How To instructions on this web site. It also does NOT have instructions for making a Top-Down shade. That said, it is a beautiful, full-color book with lots of photographs and illustrations.
Reviews for "Pieced Roman Shades"
The quilted shades, with the sunlight shining through, make windows look like they have stained glass. The jewel-toned color photos of the author's own quilted shade projects are achingly beautiful.
Grit Magazine
Terrell Sundermann's "Pieced Roman Shades" tells how to transform traditional quilt patterns into Roman shades for the home. Quilters who want more practical display applications for their projects will relish new ideas on making practical Window Hangings out of quilt designs. Highly recommended.
The Midwest Book Review
Comments from Quilters
I am planning to make shades for the rest of our house - the master bedroom with sheets and blankets hanging on the windows will be next! A Bargello design will be the first design for a long narrow window. Your book "Pieced Roman Shades" has been torn apart and each page placed in a protective sheet and the entire book put into a three ring binder. If I had not done this, the book would be falling apart now. Thanks so much for all your assistance and advice, in the book and on your website.
Elizabeth D, Montana
Am truly enjoying the "process" and think your book is one of the best I've invested in for years. I was an interior designer in my "last life" and feel that your technical and design advice and descriptions are great! I've only been sewing/quilting a little over a year, but am passionate about the many choices we have as sewers and you've opened a new "window" for many of us. I'm not a math-techy person, but I can design like crazy, so your patient, clear, double-checking, instructions are a blessing.
Ruthann J, Texas
What a beautiful way to cover a window! You explain in clear words and many helpful diagrams how to design and construct a Roman shade from a quit top. Althuogh I have made many Roman shades and a few quilts, this book provides ideas, instructins, and tips that ,make it worth every cent and more.
Mary F, Colorado
Pieced Roman Shades - Table of Contents
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Acknowledgement
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Foreword
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Pieced Roman Shades: Form and Function
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Evaluating Your Windows and Rooms
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Pieced Roman Shade Terminology
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How a Roman Shade Folds Up
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How to Mount a Roman Shade
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Tools and Techniques
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Introduction to the Projects
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Project 1: Shadows Pieced Roman Shade
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Project 2: Oriental Delight Pieced Roman Shade
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Project 3: Illusions Pieced Roman Shade
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Project 4: Illusions Valance
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How to Lay Out a Pieced Roman Shade
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Figuring Fabric Yardage and Hardware
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Making a Pieced Roman Shade
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Making a Valance
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Other Ideas: Challenges and Opprotunities
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