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Buttercup & Rust Hearth Room Shades
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Copyright 2002 - Terrell Sundermann, Castle Rock, Colorado, USA
I made eight shades in 2002 for a client in Kansas City, Kansas. This client is also a good friend, but she visited Colorado so often that I never went back east. I was there in August 2008 for a wedding and finally got a chance to take pictures of the shades installed in the room. The shades are STUNNING, as you can see from the photographs. This says as much about the decorating skills of the homeowner, as about the shades themselves.
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These eight Classic Roman shades are each 31” wide and 81” long. They are installed in a Hearth Room off of the kitchen. The three shades on the left side of the room (two of which you can see in the photograph above) are next to the dining table. They are mounted inside the windows, as are the two shades on the back room on either side of the fireplace. The remaining three shades are on the right side of the room on French doors which open onto a beautiful patio.
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The pattern in this simple pieced design is called Four Diamonds. It is a common border block on a quilt. I used it as a single column of blocks down the center of the shade. This pattern is perfect for a room with lots of windows. The pattern is sophisticated but doesn’t pull your eye away from the other fabrics in the room. I used thirty-four different fabrics in the diamonds so each shade is different. The colors are rust, buttermilk yellow and sage green. The background fabric is hand-dyed cotton batik. The fabrics used in the diamonds are both printed cottons and more hand-dyed batiks. I purchase all of my fabrics in my local quilt fabric stores.
This is an excellent pattern to make if you want to try a simple pieced Roman shade. Be sure to see the segment I taped on this design for the Public Television Station program “Creative Living with Sheryl Borden”. You can see it on YouTube. |
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