Reversible Valance Window Treatment - Sew News Magazine--Time for a Change

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			Treat your window to two looks in one with a reversible valance that buttons onto a curtain rod.

Materials
Note: The materials listed are for an inside-mount valance to fit a 48"-wide window; adjust as necessary for other size windows.

54"-wide home décor fabric: 1 1/2 yards each of two coordinating prints for valance front; 1 1/2 yards each of two different coordinating prints for valance back

2 1/2"-wide flat curtain rod

Five 1 1/4"-diameter metal drawer pull knobs

Epoxy glue

Marking pens: fabric; permanent

Matching all-purpose thread

Scraps of fusible interfacing

Pattern tracing cloth

Preparation & Cutting

The featured valance was designed to be an inside mount for a 48"-wide window. Measure the window to determine your valance width.


To create a full triangle panel pattern, refer to and draw the panel onto pattern tracing cloth. To determine the panel upper edge width, add 2 1/2" to half of the window width measurement. For example, our window width is 48", so the panel pattern upper edge is 24"+2 1/2"=26 1/2".	Full Triangle Panel Pattern


To make the half triangle panel pattern, fold the full triangle pattern in half along the 22 1/2" length and trace onto tracing cloth. Add a 1/2" seam allowance along the 22 1/2" edge .	Half Triangle Panel Pattern

For the valance front, cut two full panels from one fabric, and one full and two half panels (reversing one) from the coordinating fabric. Repeat with the other coordinating fabrics for the valance back.

To reinforce areas where buttonholes will be sewn, on each full panel wrong side, follow the manufacturer's instructions to fuse a 3" interfacing square to the middle and each end of the upper edge, 1" from the upper edge. On the half panels, fuse the interfacing squares at each upper edge end, 1" from the upper edge.

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