I have my normal uninsulated curtains done with magnets around the
edges, too.   I roll em up and stash em all in a bag under my sink cabinet
so they aren't getting torn by me hauling construction materials or loading
bicycles in and out, yet when I camp, they stick up to the inside of the
windows in just a few minutes.
   I got some 1/8" thick x 1/4" wide by 1/2" long magnets off the internet
and sewed them right into the curtain hems spaced about 8" apart.   So I
have no wires or curtain tracks inside and these curtains which are muslin,
I think, they do keep it quite a bit warmer inside....or cooler...
   I bought a bunch of those magnets, more than I needed for the curtains,
and I have found them very useful around the van and even in the house and
shop...They do have a N-S pole, but when laid flat against steel or iron
the polarity rarely is an issue...
  Don Hanson

On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 8:46 PM, neil n <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:

> Very nice.
>
> Seems like ( ha ha ha. "seems like") your wife sewed the magnets in a
> perimeter seam.
>
> I like how it folds and holds on itself. You must've spent quality
> time labelling North and South of each magnet.   :)
>
> Neil.
>
> On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> > My wife sewed up a insulated window blanket today - I had an idea, I got
> the material, she did the hard work. It turned out pretty nicely, I like it
> better than the commercially available Just Kampers version
> >
> >
> http://shufti.wordpress.com/2013/03/10/vanagon-insulated-window-blanket-prototype/
> >
> >
> > alistair
>
>
>
> --
> Neil n
>
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