Welcome
back for week six of
The One Room Challenge™. To
get caught up, you can click through the links below:
Holy
crap. I’m behind. How
is this even possible? Even
with the extra week. I am still
behind. I suppose it is
because
I underestimated
the amount of time it would take me to cut fabric. Wait, what?
Well
remember
that
whole
‘I don’t usually measure’
crap from Week 2? It seems when you are sewing
stuff, measurements are kinda,
sorta,
super
important. Side
eye.
So I’ve had
a bit
of performance
anxiety
about
cutting
the fabric
for roman
shades
because I only have so
much of it with no room for
error. After
exhaustively
researching
many
methods
for constructing relaxed romans,
my take
away
is this: get
a damn professional to do it.
Only,
it’s too late for that, so I am pressing on and on and on after calculating
more lengths and widths and seams and centers and rings than in my entire HS
geometry year. After much wringing of
hands and a million measurements later, I finally cut the first roman today and
it took me ALL DAY. The most time-consuming part was getting the dang pattern
centered and positioned where I wanted it based on the finished hang
length. And now to match that exactly
for the second shade…
At least the lining is cut and sewn for the weight rod pocket for both shades. After I get the second roman cut tomorrow, I
will attach the lining to the face fabric and hand sew the rings for the
operating mechanism – which will probably be about as much fun as the time I
decided to make a bunch of pom poms
by hand. Not.
After
all this
labor-intensive fussing, I am
going to wear these dang shades around like Scarlet O’ Hara, albeit more Carol
Burnett than Vivien Leigh. When anyone
asks I will simply reply: ‘I
saw it in the window and I couldn’t resist.’
In
other progress news, we hung the Ballard Designs Atoll mirror. Funny aside, when I posted a picture of the mirror last week on my IG, Ballard asked if they could share the photo and I said 'of course' and figured they would share it on one of their IG accounts.
While making a template of the mirror to determine where we needed to drill holes, I got on the website to find out the exact dimensions and saw the picture of the room on Ballard's website - which was totally weird because at first I didn't put two and two together and wondered how in the world they had a lampshade that looked just like my custom one. Blonde, much?
I
finally decided
on a
reading
chair. It arrived over the weekend and is in
place but you will have to wait until next week to see it because I forgot to snap a picture of it today. While I had always envisioned a
wing back, the smaller size of the chair I ordered works so much better. The mister, after reading a few nights worth
of bedtime stories in it, has pronounced it to be pretty perfect but that a
small footstool or ottoman would be nice.
If you give a mouse a cookie…
Now
that the
rug is in place,
I am loving it more and
more. The colors are perfect in the room
and the pattern will work to mask minor mishaps. The pattern and color play nicely with the
other kids in the sandbox…
Wish
us luck in these last few days that everything pulls together without a
hitch. Notice I didn’t mention the desk
chair or the closet doors. Still not
going to mention them, except to say I don’t like our chances. So there’s that.
But
I don’t
want to end on a Rhett Butler note so go check out the superstar progress of the 20 designers and my fellow
linking participants.
Big shout outs to the hostess with the mostest, Linda and our media partner House Beautiful. Additionally, we just received word that Home Love Network is partnering to feature one lucky ORC Guest Participant and their room in an upcoming episode! So pretty please with sugar on top come back next week for the big reveal! At the very least, I may be parading around in drapery. So there's that.
