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Make Roman Shades

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We are your specialists for making Roman shades, buying Roman shade hardware and learning how to make Roman shades, whether Classic flat shades or top down bottom up shades.

Windows with a View  – Turn your favorite quilt patterns into pieced Roman shades 1 hour
Pieced Roman shades let you showcase your quilting talents in an unusual, yet practical, way. Fabric artist Terrell Sundermann has perfected a method of combining the pieced-fabric front of a quilt with a Roman shade and called it a Window Hanging.

This presentation takes the audience on the journey from Terrell’s beginning designs using traditional quilt patterns to her latest “windows with a view” that use watercolor and pictorial techniques. Sharing her successes, as well as her failures, Terrell’s journey as a fabric artist parallels that of many other quilters, except that she displays her art on a window, rather than a bed or a wall. You will be inspired by numerous slides of beautiful shades as well as many actual samples. What quickly becomes apparent from Terrell’s work is that these are not Window Quilts or Warm Windows. Rather, the emphasis for these shades is on art.

  Terrell’s educational background is in physics and she has modified the already simple Roman shade to achieve a flawless lifting method using commonly available hardware. All of the hardware will be shown and the construction steps discussed. The audience will see that even a beginning quilter can turn fabric into a stunning Window Hanging.

  Terrell has been designing and making Window Hangings since 1993. Now living in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado, her work has been featured in show homes in Colorado and Massachusetts and is installed in homes throughout the United States. She has been featured in Sunset Magazine, Better Homes & Garden’s Window & Wall Ideas, Colorado Homes & Lifestyles, The Rocky Mountain News Spotlight Magazine and The Boston Globe Magazine. Her unusual way of displaying quilts has been written up in Quilters’ Newsletter Magazine and The American Quilter magazine. Terrell also wrote a book giving step-by-step instructions for making a Window Hanging. “Pieced Roman Shades – Turn Your Favorite Quilt Patterns into Window Hangings” is available from C&T Publishing and at local quilt shops.

Comments from Students
I want to thank you for the class you held in Colorado Springs. I really enjoyed it. You are a great teacher. You really truly want people to make pieced Roman shades. You also do not sabotage your pupils - but offer all the information and tips you have learned. I have now completed two shades!
                                              Kathleen M., Colorado Springs, CO

Thank you so much for coming to Kaw Valley Quilters Guild and sharing your talents. Your presentations were wonderful! I enjoy my shade every day at work and have received many compliments and questions.
                                                           Carolyn, Lawrence, KS

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Contact Information:
Terrell Designs, owned by Terrell Sundermann 
5325 Sanford Cir. E. Englewood, Colorado 80113
Phone: (303) 758-0188  Email: