Re-covering a roller blind

recovering_spendaholic

Hi - I hope this question is in the right place! I have just repainted my kitchen in duck egg blue and I want to do something with my blinds which are cream roller blinds. They are too good to throw out and I can't really afford to buy new so I thought I would try and tart them up a bit. I am sure that I saw on one of those House Invaders programmes where they got new fabric and covered the old blind with it. I am not sure how I would do it though. Does anyone know? I've got two metres of Laura Ashley duck egg Gingham which I got on clearance a while back and thought I could use that but don't want to make a right mess of it. I also want to make a round tablecloth but am not sure how to cut such a big circle of fabric. Any ideas would be most welcome!

Silaqui

Just a disclaimer - I'm RUBBISH at anything to do with fabrics.... BUT

my intial thought was to use bondaweb or similar to attach the new fabric to the blind?

To mark out your circle, get a piece of string/ribbon half the diameter of the circle you want to mark. Spread out the fabric and pin one end of the string in the middle, then hold a piece of tailors shalk or similar at the other end of the string and sort of swing it round, keeping the line taut. Probably needs someone to help!

Probably someone will have much better suggestions!

MrsCrafty

If the originals are fabric blinds, can you not unpick, cut and put a bit of the LA fabric as a horizontal insert. Or if you have enough, completely replace the fabric but use the technical bits of the blind.

If they are that stiff canvas stuff, you could try spray on adhesive and put a stripe across them. You would just need to iron a hem beforehand.

I second the idea of using a pin and string. Fold your fabric into 4. Stick the pin on the top left hand corner and use a pencil of tailors chalk to draw a 1/4 circle. Cut with pinking shears, providing it's only thin fabric and hem.