Box Pleated Valances
Instructor: Susan Woodcock
Class sessions held on Tuesdays, December, 2, 9 and 16, 2025 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm ET
Cost: $100.00
Turn your sewing skills into a business or create new window treatments for your home with WT Online classes. In this class you will learn how to design, draft patterns, and sew box pleated style valances. With a tailored appearance and endless variations, this is one of the most popular styles of valances.
In this three-week online course you will complete a lined, hemmed, straight box pleated, board mounted valance and a scalloped or arc style valance (that you design!) with contrast lined pleats, micro welt cord, interlining and lining. This valance will be board mounted with Velcro.
This 3-week class includes:
- Three 1-hour online, interactive lessons with instructor Susan Woodcock, presented live.
- Links to view recorded class sessions.
- Written how-to instructions
Course outline:
Lesson One
- Measuring the window
- Review of box pleated valance styles
- Figuring yardage
- Pattern drafting for the first project.
- Cutting fabric for the basic valance
- Sewing seams and hems
Lesson Two
- Turning, pressing and pleating the basic valance.
- Board mounting
- Design and pattern drafting for the next class project
- Using the pattern to cut valance pieces
Lesson Three
- Sewing cuts together
- Adding micro welt cord, lining and interlining
- Board mounting with Velcro
- Installation tips and other ideas
This is an intermediate level course. Some sewing experience and basic tools and supplies are needed to complete the project. You will need a sewing machine with standard presser foot and a 1/8" welt cord foot or zipper foot (for sewing micro welt cord), scissors, pins, iron, tape measure & ruler or yardstick, needles and thread and a staple gun and staples.
WT Online: Box Pleated Valances
This is a home study program. You will receive all of the class recordings and supplies listed so you can complete the class. No refunds provided.
Susan makes what appears to be a very complicated process so easy to understand! Her teaching is very good. She explains everything so nicely along with a step by step video of her making the treatment while narrating each step. I have taken a number of her online classes and as much as I wish we could have in person classes, Susan has made the online experience as good as being there in person. I look forward to more of her classes!
~Jennifer C.
I've completed 2 online classes with Susan and am signed up for 2 more. I am learning so much! She is generous with her vast knowledge and a really good teacher. If I have questions between classes she is quick to respond and usually adds a link to some new resource I didn't know about. Highly recommend!
~Nancy B.