Simple New Window Treatment for the Living Room

The living room has been evolving 

a bit lately at

Buttermilk Cottage.

With the addition of my new "knitting" chair,

which I showed you last week,

I needed a little something different

at the living room window.

I had just done new window treatments

for this room about a year ago,

but that fabric clashed with the chair's.

Since I had fabric left over from the slipcovers just

made for love seats in that room

I decided to use some of it.

It's the heavily quilted fabric at the bottom.

I found a second textured, off white 

to use as well.

I used the same simple design 

as the previous treatment.

This window topper is a series

of five squares of fabric

(one fabric on each side),

sewn together, leaving a small opening for turning.

Once turned, I used fabric glue to close up the opening.

Clothespins work great to hold everything in place

while the glue is drying.

I then folded the squares in half diagonally.

This allows the contrasting fabric

to show a bit too.

Using  small curtain rings with clips

I arranged the folded squares on the curtain rod.

Ultimately I would like to have a slip cover 

made for the knitting chair

with a fabric that coordinates with the original

blue and yellow window treatment

and then rehang those in this room.

But in the meantime, this is working for me

and I am enjoying the change.

Happy weekend!