Article: Not sew difficultArmed with an iron or hammer and some imagination, do-it-yourselfers can craft custom window treatments

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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