
I've been working on a roman shade for our bedroom going on four months now. Mostly, it'd been sitting as a heap of cut fabric panels in the corner while I attended to halloween capes and crowns and failed screen-printed scarves. But, now, I'm in full list-crossing-off mode. And all those WIPs have got to go. Had I gone through the instructions for this shade thoroughly before I started on it, all the hand stitching required might have scared me away. But now that I'm in it, just like the binding of a quilt, I'm finding it to be a nice reprieve from a day spent mollifying sick children.