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As for the swags and jabots, the whole arrangement is stapled to an empty fabric roller and then the existing rod which came out in front of the curtains was threaded in there and put together, and put up. The way to do it is to hold the empty fabric roller up to the window at the far end, then you can see how to get the two rods to meet and go together. The swags are just a long piece of fabric, I marked the places where it divided into thirds, ran a couple of gathering stiches and gathered them up lightly, then I used brocade ribbon to hold them and act as extra trim. I was not able to pay attention to the up and down direction of the design because of how much fabric I had and the width. But you cannot even tell it because of the gathers.

To take this down, All it takes is removing the whole thing the same way you would remove the rod. Best if you have two people in the case of a very wide window.

You cannot see it, but since I have cats, I didn't make the curtains touch the floor. I found out that if the curtains are a couple of inches off the floor, they won't climb them!

This is an example of a lazy way to create a beautiful window treatment. I went to my local fabric store and found the blue you see at each end for 40% off of $2 a yard! It is a shiny middle weight cotton.

The sheerer part is some lightweight, pin-striped (which you cannot even see) suit lining fabric, which was a remnant, and less than $1 a yard! There were several, and I got all of them. I had two large windows to do, and two ordinary sized ones. The swags and jabots are a wonderful decorator fabric called "Josephine". This fabric became the inspiration for the color scheme throughout the kitchen, living room, and dining room. It was also 40% off and I got all of that they had. The backs of the jabots are the same shiny blue cotton but a couple of values darker than the blue for the curtains.

All the 4 windows had to match. All I did was to hem them and make a pocket for the existing shirr on rod. (Here's where the lazy came in, I didn't want to put up new rods.)

I asked the clerk if they had any empty fabric rollers, and they gladly gave me a whole bunch of them! Some of them were really long! But for my biggest window, I had to patch two of them together so they would be long enough. I used an ordinary little hack saw to cut them when I needed to, and duct tape to put them together.