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Article: Not sew difficultArmed with an iron or hammer and some imagination, do-it-yourselfers can craft custom window treatments
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- November 7, 2004
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Not sew difficult
Armed with an iron or hammer and some imagination, do-it-
yourselfers can craft custom window treatments
There are few home decorating projects that faze Mary Sheehan-
Warren. But when a friend gave her some unwanted draperies --
professionally made, beautifully lined but attached to a large wooden
bracket -- Sheehan-Warren was stumped.
She loved the floral fabric, but didn't want to use the wooden
frame or tailor the curtains.
"I refuse to sew," she said flatly.
So after two years of tripping over the clumsy apparatus in her
basement, she mustered up her courage, ripped the fabric off the
frame and cut the drapes down to suit the kitchen window of her
Whitefish Bay home.
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