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Blue Double Shades
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Copyright 2008 - Maureen Mitchell, Franklin Square, New York. Maureen and I have been corresponding for several months about instructions on making a double Roman shade. With my brief directions and Maureen's ingenuity, she produced these wonderful shades. A Double Roman Shade is two shades on one mounting board. The front shade is made with decorative fabric - a standard Classic Roman shade. The back shade is made with sheer fabric. Be sure to see the segment I taped for the Public Broadcasting Station television program "Creative Living with Sheryl Borden" on this shade. You can view it on You Tube.
A double Roman shade can be made with a fabric front shade and a sheer back shade.
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Here is the message Maureen sent along with photographs of her Double Shades.
Dear Ms. Sundermann,
Thank you so much for your web site and your Email response to my questions. The shades turned out as wonderful as I had hoped. I made them for my sister and she is thrilled.
They are two Roman shades on a single mounting board with Velcro installed on both the front and the back of the board. Two sets of hardware (pulleys and cord locks) were installed with the second cord lock slightly offset from the first so the cords wouldn’t be on top of each other. I used your grommet idea to feed the cords from the back of the sheers to the hardware in the middle of the mounting board. Many thanks to Doug Millar for his photographs of the grommet technique – they were very helpful.
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The sheers were a little different since there were two layers of sheer fabric instead of a lining. I cut the two layers of sheers the same width and used Fray Check on the seams (since the fraying would be visible) and the battens had to be stitched into place instead of using glue. I used aluminum weight rods because the shades were so lightweight.
I can’t thank you enough – they were soooo worth it!
Sincerely,
Maureen Mitchell
All I can say is WOW! These shades are so yummy. Maureen and her sister used a great color scheme.
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