Lovelihood

Roman shade. Done. In only, oh, five months or so. A Joel Dewberry fabric in teeny tiny gray and yellow hexies, a color combo popular last season, when the shade was begun. www.lovelihood.com

I foresee lots of little projects incorporating this fabric for years to come. There's tons of fabric left over. Unfortunately, not enough to make another shade for the window on the other side of the room. www.lovelihood.com

The roman shade, in general, is such an elegant mechanism, I had thought it would be an impossibly complex procedure. Turns out, it's pretty straight-forward, and the most difficult aspect of cording the thing is making sure kids are out of the way before attempting it. www.lovelihood.com

I don't imagine the shade will actually spend much time all the way up. Maybe in the warmer months when we send the kids out back to give us some peace, we'll want to leave it open to keep track of them. www.lovelihood.com

Still searching for something non-ugly to wrap the cord around. For now, the door hinge will do. Although, there some residual grease on the hinge, which allows the door to swing out effortlessly and noiselessly, but leaves an unpleasant stain on the cord. So, evidently, not an ideal solution. www.lovelihood.com

With that curtain finally (well, mostly) done, and before I get to the business of making a complementary shade for the other window in the room, it's time to tackle all the smaller projects on the ol' Teux Deux. "Make new strap" has been on there since we got the camera. I'd put it off in the usual, labor-over-the-logistics sort of way, before deciding to just make a glorified sleeve and permanently affix it to the default strap by way of a staff of parallel stitching. Method chosen, the only thing left (besides, y'know, actually making the thing) was fabric selection. Wool tweed, picked from the remnant bin for another as-of-yet unfulfilled purpose and that same curtain panel fabric seem to achieve that elusive feminine/masculine hybrid. Hermaphroditic, you might say.

All the way up, it covers up the top panes in the door, which doesn't affect my view, but apparently hampers Mr. New Media's a bit. You win some, you lose some. www.lovelihood.com