Quick and Easy Window Valance

If you can sew a straight line, you can create this quick and easy window Valance in just one hour.

Once you've found the perfect fabric, fold the material, puts the right side against each other. Place the fabric so the pattern (if any) is horizontal.

Make a paper pattern or trace the outline of hangings. It could be straight, scalloped, or with points like this example. Make the height 1 / 3 - 1 / 4 height of your window and the width a few inches wider than the window, including trim around it.

Clip the fabric. Pin the sides together - with right sides still together - to keep the structure from moving as you sew. Sew all sides except one. If the page you leave open is large (I would recommend it over long ago), leaving the middle open.

Pull the fabric right side out. Pressure with an iron. Hand stitch the opening closed. Press the seam.

If you would like to add trim to your Valance, pin trim along the edge of fabric with trim on the center of the hangings. As you pull it right side out, trim will properly lay on the outside of the seam. Sew very close to the edge of the trim, so it hangs evenly.

You can make loops to hang Valance of the material or buy matching cord. For matching material loops, make strips twice as long and twice as wide as you want the loops to be. Add half inches to both width and length. Sew as you did it Valance with right side together, leaving a small opening. Again turn right side out, press, stitch up open side, and press. For cord, simply cut a length that is double the measurement you want from the top of Valance to the holder. Make as many loops as you have hangars.

Ideally loops being sewn into the top seam. It means that the loop must contain at Valance, when the right side were together as you sewed it up, folded in half. So when you sew it all together is the end of the loop hidden neatly in the upper seam. If that is confusing or too much time, just double up loops you made above, and hand sew them hangings. Be sure to place them even across the top and where the hangars will be.

Snap Valance holders your window trim or drywall (use drywall anchor, if you are going into wood), then hang your valance. Now you have a custom Valance in about an hour.

Julie Loamier is the veteran of numerous home remodeling and construction projects. From working hands on and doing much of the work themselves to hire contractors and construction managers, she has seen the entire spectrum of home improvement. She shares her remodeling tips, interior design ideas, and other various rants at MyHomeRedux.