These are simple sheers, gathered on a rod, for a cottage.

These are insulated Roman shades made from hand-painted fabric. A Roman shade is a good place to display a very interesting fabric, as it becomes like a painting on the wall when closed. Here you can see one closed, and one open. I had five pieces of hand-painted fabric, in three different sizes. I used one all-over patterned fabric to create borders.

These insulated shades are thick, so they take up a fair bit of space at the top, however they are very effective energy-savers, keeping out the cold in the winter and the heat in the summer: they each form a valance over the window or door.

This shade was created from many squares of related fabrics, some hand-painted. There is a slight curve at the bottom. If you look at the shades pictured above, you can see the pleats line up more sharply: the difference has to do with how the rings that guide the cords are sewn.

Here is the patchwork shade in the closed position. This shade is also insulated. The backing used has layers of mylar to reflect heat and quilt batting for insulation.

These cotton damask drapes were shirred on tapes. They are hung on rings on a large dowel. I wish I were a better photographer. The sunlight shining through really picked up the damask pattern of circles, but it doesn't show in this photo.

This sheer fabric is lined, but it too looks lovely when the sun shines through. There's a leafy pattern embroidered on the fabric which is echoed by the plants outside. (These four shades are on basement windows, so there are plantings right outside some of them.)

These uphostered cushions (small mattresses, really) had been in this cottage for decades. They were stripped to the coil springs and re-padded, recovered and re-sewn with self-covered buttons.

One of six chair cushions for dining room chairs. This customer chose not to have them piped because she felt that this plain look fit the style of the furniture better.

This old oak chair is more comfortable with a piped cushion. It's piped in a contrasting fabric because there wasn't enough of the end-piece of coral fabric for the whole job.

This old Boston Rocker is also rather hard on the rear end without a cushion.

This leather chair has seen better days and the seat is rather worn: the cushion hides the cracks in the leather. The fabric is a piece left-over from re-upholstering another easy chair, which is in the same room.

This quilt is appliqued in a traditional Amish quilt pattern called Love Apple. The circular motif was chosen to complement the circular inset drawer pulls and mirror on the dresser and wardrobe from the 1940s.