Donna Cash

About Donna Cash

I’m an award winning custom soft furnishings designer, sewing fabricator, and teacher of exquisite custom fabric items, also known as custom soft furnishings, for homeowners and interior designers. These products range from custom pillows and valances to draperies, slipcovers, and upholstery. Sewing has always been my creative outlet. Designs by Donna has been serving Atlanta and the surrounding areas since 1987. We are located in Flowery Branch, just outside of Atlanta, GA.

Patchwork chair seats – the challenges, fun, & following my gut.

Patchwork chair seats and following your gut.  You may be wondering how these can possibly be related.  Well, really, they aren't.  Except that because I followed my gut I created these one of a kind chair seats for the sample room here at Designs by Donna.  And I really like them much better than my original [...]

What do sewing thread and spices have in common?

What do sewing thread and spices have in common?  Nothing really.   Other than when your sewing thread and spices are organized it is easier to find what you are looking for, making you more efficient at what you are doing. Organizing sewing thread by color and type, like alphabetizing your spices, allows you to quickly find [...]

Ripplefold Drapery System – Understanding the Basics

The first set of Ripplefold draperies I made was probably about twenty years ago.  It was wall to wall and floor to ceiling and it was a cranberry, textured cotton fabric.  Yup, it's true, I remember the exact color and texture!  Oh, and it was made using blackout lining.  And twenty years ago blackout linings [...]

Problem Solving Is One Of Our Specialties – Swing Door Top Treatment Kit

I love it when a designer tells me I'm a genius!  That is what designer Deborah Hebert and her client said after hearing I would be able to provide hobbled roman shades valances for the bay window in a breakfast room.  The problem, they thought, was the door on the right side which opens into [...]

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