New sewing room, little window edition - work in progress
 

So I'm STILL working on moving my sewing room into the living room, which is taking me much longer than I'd anticipated (mostly because we also decided to do a dozen or so projects around the house at the same time.)

One project I added is this! This little window used to have blinds on it but they were old, falling apart, dirty and overall horrible so I threw them out. While trying to decide what to do with all the windows in the room I realized that this lonely little window looked a lot like a 4-patch quilt block, which gave me the idea of making the window into a faux stained glass mini quilt! It faces the front porch so it's a great spot to tuck a little bit of color and personality.

I went into EQ7 and picked out some standard-ish, simple-ish blocks that I thought would go well enough together and be easily recognized as quilt blocks. (Hopefully even non-quilters will be able to tell what these are!)

I finished the faux leading last night; I couldn’t start coloring it in yet, the leading had to dry for 8 hours first. (It's stick-on strips, with liquid leading at the joints to fill in the little gaps) I’ll probably start painting tonight after work, not sure how long it’ll take me to finish it! The colors are going to coordinate with the exterior house colors - blues and browns.

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Hahah, and I just realized you can see ME in this photo! Best selfie ever. LOL

Neat idea!!

That's just absolutely cool and kudos for thinking outside the box and turning your window into a quilt. Be sure to give us a picture from inside and outside when you get it finished up.

Really good idea. probably time consuming from start to finish but it is really nice. Can't wait to see when it is all done

That is a super neat idea! Can't wait to see what it looks like when you get it colored. :thumbup:

Wonderful idea.

Great project. What type of paint are you coloring your windows with?

Oh, my gosh! What a cool idea. I look forward to seeing the finished windows.

That is just too gorgeous for words! Can't wait to see the finished product. So jealous.....

It's a paint made by PLAID (same folks who make Mod Podge) that's designed specifically for this purpose - it's all removable so when I move or get tired of the pattern (or screw it up really bad) I should be able to just peel it all right off!

I think the paint is called "Gallery Glass". The faux leading is same brand/manufacturer - it comes in strips that have sticky backs and you just stick 'em on and trim with an Exacto blade. Fortunately it's repositionable too, I had to move a few lines after I stood back and realized I was making it wonky! Then you take "liquid leading" (also same brand) and dab it into the joints to hide all the little gaps.

Really really cool! Can't wait to see it finished!

Love it - now that's creativity! Please post a picture when done -- can't wait to see it finished.

What a great idea! Please post pictures of the finished project. I have a window over my front door....hmmmm.

So creative of you! We NEED pics!

What a clever idea! Now I have to find a window for myself...

What a great idea! We just bought a new house yesterday and need to replace some iron gates on the bedroom windows since they don't open. Maybe I can get the iron worker to do something like this!

What a great idea? This board has so many creative people on it. Thanks for sharing.

That is a really cool idea. I want to see it when it is done!

It will look fantastic after it's 'quilted'! But I also love it the way it is! & you get to look out at the scenery!

Great idea, can't wait to see some color on it.

Keep us informed. I've been trying to get my nerve up to do that to an ugly window for years!

Thanks Sewnoma for the info.

Well coloring it in is proving to be a bit more challenging!

I put a dark blue color up first. Went great except I discovered a paintbrush is the last tool to use for this. Just squirt it on and then use a toothpick or something like that to sort of scribble the paint around to fill in any gaps. Looks gorgeous.

Then I moved on to light blue...urgh. Light blue is much thinner for some reason, so it drips down if I put it on thick. If I put it on thin, when you stand back you can see through it too easily in spots and it looks all blotchy. So I stopped to let it all dry overnight, and tonight I'll see how well it works to put a second coat on. It dries to a sort of rubbery finish so I'm not at all sure how this is going to work out with a 2nd layer but we'll see!

It'd be so much easier if I could work flat, but I can't really tip this wall onto its side!

What a great idea! Anxious to see the finish!

Nice idea and please be sure to post the finished project.
Pat

OOOHHHHHH. I love this idea!!

wow that is cool! I can't wait to see it finished.

Cool Idea!

Can't wait to see the finished window. Looks pretty great already.

Sewnoma (Hahah, and I just realized you can see ME in this photo! Best selfie ever. LOL) No, Sewnoma, I thought you had captured the image of an angel (reflection in the window). LOL

That is just too cool! Clever, clever, clever!

That is so clever!! I love that! :thumbup:

I love this!!! What a neat idea!! and love the selfie, too. I didn't know about faux leading. Hmmmm...Please show us your finished product?

love that idea!!!!

Well I have discovered that unfortunately my elbow really does NOT LIKE this process. I think it's all the scribbling back and forth to spread the paint that is doing me in. I have been getting a lot of pain so I've taken a few days off from this process before I cause myself some actual damage. It looks horrible right now, not even halfway done, but I have lots of other projects needing attention too so I've had to take a break. (The parts that are done look pretty good, though...)

So, like so many quilts that I start....this one is (temporarily!) a UFO, LOL. One that the WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD can see, so I'm definitely motivated to finish it. My neighbors probably hate me right now...my blinds for the big front window came but they had been damaged in transit so I'm waiting for replacements, and in the meantime my DH has blocked up our front window with cardboard. It looks like we're crazies who are preparing for alien invasion! I'm just waiting for the cops to come by and make sure we're not cooking drugs in the living room or something. Gahh!

Sewnoma, this is such a cool idea. I know it's too late, but if I were doing this, I think I would have a piece of acrylic cut to fit the space exactly. Then it could be painted flat on a table - much less stressful to joints, etc. and paint would not run. When it's dry it could be fitted into the window frame. Just a thought if someone else is considering this.

This is awesome. Will look forward to seeing how you finish it.

They actually make "blanks" that you can use - if you use liquid leading only (and not the sticky strips I used) you can supposedly paint it all flat and then just peel it up and stick it on the window - basically a home made static cling. But I wanted those straight lines, and I knew it was POSSIBLE to do it vertically...just not easily and probably not the smartest way either, LOL.