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Wisteria Pieced Shade
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Copyright 2011 - Terrell Sundermann, Castle Rock, Colorado, USA
This pieced Roman shade covers a window in the Bar area of my Family Room. The fabric shade softens the area which has a sandstone counter. It is 40" wide and 71" long. The fabrics are 100% cotton and is backed with Thermalsuede. I used flat pulleys and a cord cleat. It is an outside mount shade which allows the maximum light and view when the shade is raised.
The shade was made using freezer-paper templates. There are almost 1,000 individual pieces of fabric sewn together to make the front of this shade.
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You can see how well this Roman shade dresses up the Bar Area. It lies flat against the window, which makes walking through the narrow opening easy.
The photographs above show the shade down and up. The mounting board was attached to the wall 8" above the top of the window trim.
You can see the fabrics and shapes in this close-up picture. The pieces are sewn together using 1/4" seams. When the sun shines through the shade, the seams look like the lead in a leaded glass windows The fabrics glow in the light. The "tiles" in the lower background are 1.5" square. I worried about the intersections of the major pieces that were joined to make the seam. The tiles are not square at these junctions. Once the shade was completed, I liked the effect. It looks like there is a crack in the wall. Interesting.
If you look closely you can see two of the internal battens shadowing through the fabric in this photograph that was taken with the sun back-lighting the shade. The top horizontal batten is about 1/3rd of the way from the top of the photograph. The second batten is about 2/3rds down. The shadows certainly don't detract from the image and help enormously to keep the folds perfect when raising the shade.
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