Welcome to the curtain saga in our house. I have an allergic reaction to paying for purchased blinds for the house. I hate the price and can never find the color or style I like. So I make them. We need new blinds in the guest/kitten foster room. I have made roman shades before with pull cords. We can’t have pull cords dangling when we foster kittens! Chaos would occur. But the price of just the cordless hardware is rather high.
Several years ago, I repurposed the old roller blinds in the guest/kitten foster room by replacing the brittle plastic with fabric blinds. They sort of worked. If you had the patience to take them down, roll them up or down, then replace them.
I purchased cheap mini blinds to make my own roman shades, intending to reuse the roller blind fabric. I washed them, dried them, and of course, they shrank by 1 inch in width. Even though I had prewashed the fabric when I made them.
I ended up using some OK fabric from my stash because 1)I really needed to get curtains up again, and 2) I wanted to do a test run on converting store-bought mini blinds to DIY roman shades before I did the kitchen blinds. It worked. I will do a full post when I get the kitchen ones done. I am just waiting on some back-ordered supplies.
Back to the too-narrow curtains languishing in my stash. We walked into the kitchen this morning and were blinded by the light! The window faces south, and now that the sun has gone south for the winter, you can’t use the counter on that side of the kitchen in the morning when the sun is blazing coldly away. A few quick rod pockets and a spring rod and we have curtains in the kitchen. There are two windows, but the one over the sink faces out to the porch and isn’t a problem right now.
Guest room remake:
Kitchen window and new fabric to come. BTW, the green stripe doesn’t match anything else in the kitchen. 
