No Sew DIY Roman Shades

We moved in our house over a year ago... And I'm just now getting around to putting up curtains. Well if you have looked into getting window coverings, you know that they are pretty expensive... Well of course I looked for a cheaper way of getting this gorgeous look and found this blog and decided to give it a try.

All of the tutorials I have looked at use the cheap plastic blinds but the fabric that i bought was much heavier than theirs so I went over to my local Home Depot to see if they had some already cut (but messed up) faux wood blinds. Sure enough they did! So I bought them for $8 and came home and went to work. I can't do things by measuring... for some reason it just does not compute so I did it by looks. I have a fairly small kitchen window and I attached TP to the slats and figured where I want the folds.






When I figured out the placement I then laid the blinds out completely:

Then I went to the bottom and popped off the thingy that holds everything in.

See?

I then removed the necessary slats.

So the next things I did was lay the blinds face down on top of the material. 

Then fold the edge as to hem it.

Then fold the top.

Here's a better look:

Now remember NOT to glue the VERY edge of the top so that you can put it back into the hold and covering it.

Then you glue everything down, fold, and let dry.