Roman Blind kits - is it that easy?

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I'm pretty nifty with the old sewing machine and confident with following instructions.

These roman blind kits look brill, and come with instructions. Really is it that simple?

All that money I paid to have them in my lounge and I'm confident to do it myself for the bedroom.

Obviously the measuring and acurate positioning does take experience but for one inside the window. Hummmm ... It would take much fabric either. Perhaps interline to give them that luxury look.

ANyone done it?

I made some years ago for my first house. I'm not sure I even bought a kit - I think I borrowed a library book on soft furnishings which explained how to make them. I think it was fairly straightforward - no tricky sewing, just assembling them with the cords, etc is the bit you need to concentrate for!

I did the ones in our house and they look fine, though, if you looked up close you'd maybe know they weren't professionally done. By the last set I was getting pretty good though.

It was a lot more time consuming than I thought, and cutting the fabric nice and evenly and then lining it all up was more challenging that I expected. The sewing is all pretty straight forward but I found it sort of difficult to sew the middle batton-holder bits as it was a lot of fabric to scrunch up under the arm of my machine.

If you are having a row of blinds, remember that the battons need to fall in the same places and if there is a pattern in your fabric it will also need to line up.

No its only one so I havent got to match them up. Looking at the blindes I had made professionally they arnt brill they get narrower at the bottom than up the top - they are straight but the one side to one of them is really bad!

These kits supply everything bar the fabric and cotton.

Yes I can imagine all that width of fabric scrunching up - that is the problem with making curtains at home - its all that fabric on a small table. A dog sleeping on the fabric drapped on floor and blood marks from the skin pricks with the pins!