Use a Blind as a Sink Skirt

 Hello Readers. What could I do with an unused blind? I had this Roman blind that my sweet mother-in-law gave me. It was pretty but all my windows were covered. I have held onto it for a while but I wanted to use it for something. I finally thought of a great idea. I could make a skirt for my utility sink with it. 

 Do sinks need skirts? I thought this one did.

I wanted to hide under my not-very-cute utility sink. It looks like this one, it's useful but not pretty.

 This blind is made of thick fabric and really well put together. It was about 35' x 60'. It was large enough to make a great skirt for my sink. 

 You can see the strings and pulley system on the back of the blind. 

The first thing I did was remove all of those strings and loops. I didn't need any of this in my sink skirt. 

I also took the out the pieces that gave the blind structure and the wood that would be used to hang the blind on the wall. I didn't need any of this either. 

Then I measured to get the size I needed. Your sink will be different than mine. I was only covering 2 side of my sink because it is in a corner. The area of my sink that I wanted to cover was 45' wide and 34' tall.  

I cut the blind down in size as needed. I was cutting it into a rectangular shape. It needed to wrap around the side and front of my sink and I wanted it to hang down to the floor, or just above the floor. 

 I used my serger to finish the cut edges. It would connect the 2 layers of the blind and keep the fabric from fraying.  

 I wanted to use Velcro to attach the skirt to the sink. With Velcro, I could take it off the sink to clean it if I needed to. I used this Velcro that had sticky adhesive on the back. 

 

I cut my Velcro pieces 45' wide to wrap around the rim my sink. 

I peeled the Velcro off the paper and stuck one piece of it on the sink. I pressed it to the sink firmly and it really stuck to the sink well. 

I stuck the other side of the Velcro to the top edge of the skirt. It didn't stick to the fabric as well as the plastic side of the sink.

 

  I sewed the blind and the Velcro together to make sure they stayed together really well over time as it hangs on the sink. 

 I attached the skirt to the sink and it stayed on so well. I really wanted to hide the area under the sink and this skirt did that well. 

 

  I can just pull it over to reach under the sink. 

I think the skirt looks really nice and I loved how easy it was to put it all together. 

Thanks for reading along, now go make something fun for yourself.