Does it count as a Finished Object?

As a break from knitting, and because I've made substantial progress on my Hand Dyed Cowl, I decided to try something new. I found this amazing tutorial from Little Green Notebook on how to transform mini-blinds in to roman shades and immediate thought of the broken blinds in my front window.

For the record: I am not a seamstress. I can whip stitch and maybe get a button back on, but beyond that is beyond me. This project requires no more tools than a measuring tape, scissors and some fabric glue. My kind of project!!

I won't go in to instructions because she does it so beautifully on her site, but there's the photos of my first attempt, taken over the course of about a half hour:

cutting the shades apart

making sure to only cut the *little* thread,
not the big pulley one

laying the fabric below, figuring out
how many slats to have


gluing everything down


finished and hanging!


pulled up and after it dried

Isn't it gorgeous!? I think it has a beautiful kind of stained glass effect with the light streaming in from the other side. I wish I had taken a before picture, because I can guarantee it wasn't this cute! Total cost was about $8.00 for one yard of fabric, which I had technically bought for another project and didn't use so it was just around the house.

Needless to say, I'm thrilled. :)