Haa, some day I swear I will find a room that I can make puff and slash curtains for....!
Sg On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Marjorie Wilser <[email protected]> wrote: > Riiiight. Well, my window _fan_ needed a costume. Since I'm in a mild > winter area (coastal So. Cal), I decided to leave the box fan in the > bathroom window this year. It's not as crazy as it sounds. I really only > need it covered during the coldest couple of weeks. Since costumers > regularly sew on some pretty weird stuff, I thought you'd all appreciate the > misery of dealing with the materials of choice. > > Having had good luck and excellent insulation covering the garage window > (single pane) with a framework and staple-gunned silver bubble film (think > those cheap car window foldup shades), I decided to take a similar approach > to the box fan. > > The fan is mounted in a piece of painted plywood in a double-hung window. > I'm not going to change this any time soon, as the house is historic. The > entire "box" of the fan projects inward. The proposed design: cut the shape > of the box, and cut 4" strips to go around it. > > It's like making a pillow, only without the second flat side. Or maybe a > pillbox hat. Material is stiff! Assembly was a royal pain, since the stuff > is so stiff that if it runs into anything on the table, it stops the feed > dogs from helping it advance and the needle ends up doing jumping jacks in > place. I had to guide the insulating film through the machine to avoid > letting it stop, but not so fast that I jammed it and broke a needle. > > This was a 3- needle job. The third managed NOT to break :) Once the basic > pillbox shape was made, I then stitched a length of single fold bias tape to > the inside and topstitched the other side. This is a place for a future > drawstring. Beautiful it ain't <sigh>. > > Test placement over the fan was perfect. I know it will keep out drafts WAY > better than the bath towel that it replaced. The look is more high-tech than > I'd prefer, since I'm an old-fashioned kinda decorator, but WORKS is good. > > Hooray for *draftless* showers!! :) > > == Marjorie Wilser > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
