How To Make Window Curtains

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If you lot've ever had to rough it a few days (or weeks—we're not judging) post-movement with no window treatments, you know only how essential it is to have them. Both functional and decorative, curtains, drapes, and blinds are a necessary part of any room design. And the best role? You can make them yourself!

Since my own curtain-making skills are more of the no-sew multifariousness, I called in an skillful: Ella Hall, founder of upholstery studio Stitchroom, who showed the states how to make a simple panel-mode curtain with a rod pocket. Armed with fabric (nosotros chose Kelly Wearstler's Graffito cloth for Lee Jofa ("We're seeing so many designers using this right now," says Hall) and a sewing machine, Hall ready about creating a tailored, professional-looking curtain that anyone can replicate. Here's how she did information technology.

What You'll Need:

Curtain textile
Curtain lining fabric
Scissors
Ruler
Tape measure
Sewing car
Thread
Pins
Fe

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How to Make Curtains

i.Measure

If you've ever washed a DIY, y'all probably know at this point that the outset step is to mensurate—and that you should really measure twice earlier making the first cut! For curtains, first figure out where you desire your curtain rod on the wall (the closer to the ceiling, the taller they'll seem) and secure the brackets accordingly. So measure out from the summit of the curtain rod to where you want the pall to striking. In the video to a higher place, ours ends just below the window sill. Side by side, measure the width of the window.

2. Cut material

Hall recommends calculation 7 1/4 inches to both the acme and width measurements to account for the top pocket and side and lesser hems. Cut a rectangle of your curtain material to these measurements, and then cut the lining fabric three inches shorter than the textile (but the same width).

3. Pin and sew ane side

Arranging your fabric with its forepart facing the lining, pin the two together to continue them in place and sew in a straight line along one side to create a hem. The edges will however exist frayed, that's fine! You'll turn it inside out later.

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Measuring and pinning lining hem.

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4. Create lining hem

Fold 1 1/two inches of the bottom edge of the lining fabric and 3 inches of the curtain cloth. Pin and stitch where they overlap to create the curtain's lesser hem. If the hem seam doesn't encounter the side hem, stitch them together so there isn't a loose flap.

5. Sew second side

Hall recommends finding the eye of the fabric and lining, marking that signal and pinning fabric and lining together there, and and so working out from the center to the sides with the sewing machine. Information technology'southward ok if the lining fabric comes up short. Sew these together like y'all did the first side.

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Pressing seams.

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6. Flip curtain correct-side out

Now that you have iii sides sewn, attain into the bottom corner sand flip the mantle right side out! Trim any hanging threads and iron the seams to make them crisp. If you don't have an atomic number 26, only press them with your fingers to come up to a betoken.

vii. Create rod pocket

Fold the tiptop fabric over 3 1/4 inches, pin, and run up along the fabric'due south edge so that a pocket forms betwixt the top of the drapery and the stitch. Cut any loose threads.

eight. Iron

Fe all seams to make sure they're well-baked, and then fe the curtain all over to get rid of wrinkles.