How to make a quick and easy Window Valance

If you can sew a straight line, you can create this quick and easy window valance in just an hour.

After you've found the perfect fabric, fold the material, putting the right side against the other. Place the fabric for the pattern (if any) is horizontal.

Make a paper pattern or trace the outline of the valance. You can be straight, wavy, or with points like this example. Make the height of 1 / 3 to 1 / 4 of the window height and width of a few inches wider than the window, including the seat around.

Cut the fabric. Pin the sides together - with the right side still together - to keep the structure from moving as you sew. Sew all sides except one. If the side to leave open is large (I recommend the top long), leave the middle half open.

Pull the fabric right. Press with an iron. Hand stitch the opening closed. Press the seam.

To add to your seat valance, pin the seat along the edge of the fabric to fit laying toward the center of the valance. As right out, the seat properly seated on the outside of the seam. Something very close to the edge of the seat so that it hangs evenly.

You can make loops to hang the valance from the material or buy cable game. For matching material loops, make strips twice as long and twice as wide as you want the loop to be. Add half of an inch in width and length. Sew as you did the valance with the right side, leaving a small opening. Again turn right side, press, stitch the open side, and the press. For the cable, simply cut a length that is twice the measure you want from the top of the valance to the holder. S many loops as you have hangars.

Ideally, the loops should be sewn into the upper seam. That means the loop should be inside the valance on the right side were sewed together as up, folded in half. Then when you sew it all together, the end of the loop is hidden neatly in the top seam. If that is confusing or too bothersome, just bend the loops has previously, and hand sewn to the valance. Be sure to place even in the top and in the hangars will be.

Secure the valance holders to your window trim or drywall (use drywall anchors if not going into wood) and then hang your valance. Now, you have a custom valance in about an hour.