window quild idea ....sheets?

dom300186

thinking of doing window quilts ready for winter, could i make them from old in good condition sheets or even brand new ones and wadding in the middle ?

ginnyknit

Sheets would be fine, cheap Ikea fleeces work well as filling and are quite big. Im about to make one for OH's bedroom but its only a small window so it won't be difficult.

415SanFran

Sheets will be fine.

I just did some for my niebour she bought some 101 Dalmatians curtains from the charity shop also a girls pink/purple fleece for the middle, also charity shop and it was all done in about an hour. Total cost about 5 pounds.

She did a wonderful job at trimming my hair, so "fair exchange is no robbery" as they say.

dom300186

how are you hanging them, ive thought about putting some velcro with sticky back on the fram and one on the window quilt so they can be removed easily for washing?

valk_scot

Make sure your curtain poles or rails are up to the additional weight. If not it's often more sucessful to add a second, lighter rail closer to the window and putting seperate curtains up. Remember that it's air being trapped between layers of fabric that provides the insulating effect so two or three loosely hanging layers are more effective than one more rigid sandwich effect.

415SanFran

dom300186 wrote: »

how are you hanging them, ive thought about putting some velcro with sticky back on the fram and one on the window quilt so they can be removed easily for washing?

This is what I did, on the first one, the window was quite small so just the top was fine.
On the second one it was a very long thin window and the quilt was to heavy and kept falling down so I added it also to the sides and the bottom. that worked fine

I first started making these when my children were very young as one of them used to wake at the first sight of daylight, if he was awake the whole house had to be!

patchwork_cat

How do you take these down during the day?

415SanFran

If you use the velco they just come unstuck. That said in the REALLY cold weather the one in the bathroom stays put. It's freezing in there!

When the boy was young used to keep them up all the time otherwise he would not nap in the day, we were in North Carolina at the time so it also kept out the oppressive heat in the day time