I just finished making an old mini-blind into a roman shade. I read about it in this blog. I'm going to make other ones for my other windows. The only thing I did differently was to sew 2 pieces of fabric together instead of gluing hems all around and I painted the slats to match the fabric, so they wouldn't be standing out so much, even though anything was better than what the blinds looked like from the outside before. Most of the slats disintegrated as I was trying to remove them, but there were some that actually had not seen the sun for 10 years, so I was able to salvage them for the project. Next I'm going to make one from black out fabric.
