Hi there - my first post!
I'm planning to make interlined blinds for a bay window (paid job for a friend) and although I've made stitched-through Roman blinds before and interlined curtains, I haven't interlined/hand-stabbed romans till now. I've read lots of posts on here and found loads of brilliant tips and am formulating my 'plan'. I wondered if any of you would be kind enough to offer any comment or pros and cons for what I have in mind!
The blinds are to be in plain linen union with an inset contrast border which will go down each side and across the bottom with mitred corners, if that makes sense. Trawling the recommendations on here,I was thinking of using Evastay domette and Evapure (?) lining. I seem to get a broken link each time I try to go to the Evans site so just now I don't know how these compare in price to other linings and don't know if they will supply in cut lengths and non-trade. I plan to make rod pockets from the lining and fancy trying out eyelets instead of rings. I also thought I might fix the blinds with velcro on the top face of the battens, which would mean I could machine through all the layers at the top without it showing on the front (I've found in the past the face fabric sagged a little at the top and these will be heavier than any I've made before).
I was planning to trim the interlining to the finished blind size rather than make turnings as I have when interlining curtains as it would seem to be less bulky for folding but I've seen both ways in books...I've also seen recommended in a book to use a weighted rod in the bottom rod pocket in addition to the bottom batten to stop an interlined blind sagging, but I couldn't quite understand the logic - any thoughts? What size/type of rods would be best - the centre/biggest blind is 137cm wide and about 195 long. Finally (for now!), do I need to reinforce the rod pockets for my eyelets and, if so, is buckram the right thing or could I just use a strip of woven tape or belting (I think it's called) which would save trying to cut straight narrow strips in buckram - my biggest nightmare in all of this is cutting everything straight and parallel!
thank you so much - sorry if too many issues in one post
I'm planning to make interlined blinds for a bay window (paid job for a friend) and although I've made stitched-through Roman blinds before and interlined curtains, I haven't interlined/hand-stabbed romans till now. I've read lots of posts on here and found loads of brilliant tips and am formulating my 'plan'. I wondered if any of you would be kind enough to offer any comment or pros and cons for what I have in mind!
The blinds are to be in plain linen union with an inset contrast border which will go down each side and across the bottom with mitred corners, if that makes sense. Trawling the recommendations on here,I was thinking of using Evastay domette and Evapure (?) lining. I seem to get a broken link each time I try to go to the Evans site so just now I don't know how these compare in price to other linings and don't know if they will supply in cut lengths and non-trade. I plan to make rod pockets from the lining and fancy trying out eyelets instead of rings. I also thought I might fix the blinds with velcro on the top face of the battens, which would mean I could machine through all the layers at the top without it showing on the front (I've found in the past the face fabric sagged a little at the top and these will be heavier than any I've made before).
I was planning to trim the interlining to the finished blind size rather than make turnings as I have when interlining curtains as it would seem to be less bulky for folding but I've seen both ways in books...I've also seen recommended in a book to use a weighted rod in the bottom rod pocket in addition to the bottom batten to stop an interlined blind sagging, but I couldn't quite understand the logic - any thoughts? What size/type of rods would be best - the centre/biggest blind is 137cm wide and about 195 long. Finally (for now!), do I need to reinforce the rod pockets for my eyelets and, if so, is buckram the right thing or could I just use a strip of woven tape or belting (I think it's called) which would save trying to cut straight narrow strips in buckram - my biggest nightmare in all of this is cutting everything straight and parallel!
thank you so much - sorry if too many issues in one post

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