I've been planning on doing this for a while now, a series of reviews of the awesome projects that I've pinned and tried on pinterest. I want to start by saying two things...
1. If you are not on pinterest, go NOW! (well AFTER you read this of course). Pinterest is the greatest thing since Martha Stewart for people who craft, bake, cook, or ANY Martha related interest.
2. My goal in this series is to NOT be mean to another crafter. People who create are my people and in the words of one of the funniest females EVER, Whoopi Goldberg; 'if you can't be witty, don't be sh@#%^'. Pinterest has so many awesome ideas, I just wanted to share my thoughts and let you know if it is worth your time and money.
This project has been all over pinterest and blogged by many people, so I have no clue who to source as the original. The cost is very cheap. Just 2 yards of fabric and a cheap $7 roller blind (with about $4 worth of hardware).
Very simple instructions; just hot glue your fabric to the roller blind, like wrapping a present.
The amount of time was good too. Me and my husband did this during one 30 minute episode of Parks and Rec. God bless Ron Swanson!
So out of a 5 'pin' rating. I give this 2 and a 1/2 pins. Very cheap and easy to do, not much skill required. The only issue we had is that the blind does not roll up so well. This window had been a HUGE pain in our neck, funneling sunlight into the home like a laser beam. We are very happy with the outcome but we do wish it rolled up easier. This might be an error on our part or a flaw in the blind itself...either way it is a great idea to add something unique and one of a kind for little money.
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ReplyDeleteThe $7 roller blind plus about $4 of hardware is the detail that makes this project worth pinning, and giving it 2 and a half pins instead of a rave is what makes the review useful. Mentioning that the blind no longer rolls up well is exactly the kind of thing a finished tutorial photo never shows. Keeping the failure mode in the same paragraph as the cost and the 30-minute build time is why this reads as a real test rather than a repin. From the team behind My Hotel Lobby AI.
ReplyDeleteThe admission that this project has been repinned and reblogged so often you can't name an original source is a familiar problem with pin-based tutorials, and it's good to see it stated rather than papered over. Breaking the cost into 2 yards of fabric against the blind and hardware also makes the "very cheap" claim checkable instead of vague. A review series built on the promise not to be mean to another crafter sets a tone most tested-project posts skip. Shotra team here.
ReplyDeleteUsing one 30-minute Parks and Rec episode as the clock for this build is a unit of measurement I can actually plan around, and it says more than a vague quick-and-easy label would. Hot gluing the fabric like wrapping a present also tells me no sewing machine is involved, which is often the hidden cost in fabric projects. And the bit about that window funneling sunlight in like a laser beam makes the $7 roller blind read as a fix for a real problem rather than a prop for a photo. From the team behind 2 Minute Drill Game, an independent fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by the NFL.
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