Fab Fabric Friday!- and the shades we made!

What a brilliant balance of color and design:

Kravet's "Exotic Travels"- embroidered faux silk

I enjoyed making shades for this laundry room.

And a seat and back cushion for the mud room.

I have a new method for making ribbed shades, at least some ribbed shades.  I make pockets on the inside of the lining, and press them downwards towards the bottom.

I fold the side and bottom hems over and sew the bottom and one side.

For these shades I used Rowley's mesh tube shroud; when it was all done except for the side I did not hand-hem yet, I slid in the weight bar and the ribs;

Then hemmed that last side border.

The last row of mesh tube shroud is a little awkward to sew, with the rods and ribs in place, but it goes quickly.

The result is a nice, neat back, especially important on the smaller of these 2 shades which is mounted on a door.  Whoa, I forgot to take a picture of the back!  Here's one of a different shade in the same house, with ladder tape rather than shroud: