In our interior, sometimes, almost the main role is played by beautiful and elegant curtains. Curtains are needed in every room of our apartment, the distinguishing feature of which is the composition of the fabric, as well as the decor. More and more often, women think not about buying curtains, but about sewing them. After all, it will be much cheaper to sew a curtain on your own than to buy a finished product.
Also, any style and color can be attributed to the pluses of tailoring curtains yourself, which allows you not to run around the shops in search of the right finished product. By the way, it’s easy to sew curtains at home, having the right tools, as well as the necessary knowledge.
Simple curtains in the kitchen
For the kitchen, the ideal option is to choose light curtains. Since they should be easily erased, and also let sunlight through them. The kitchen is a place of increased danger of pollution around. After all, we women constantly cook, cook, and all our activities can affect our curtains.
A good option for the kitchen can be curtains made of real cotton, hemp or a mixture of cotton with polyester, as well as other synthetic fabrics. It will also be an interesting choice to turn your attention to the staple. This is a soft, lightweight fabric made of cotton and viscose, it has many different patterns, and is also sold in a huge range of colors.
To sew the curtains for the kitchen correctly, you first need to decide on their color and length. With color, everything is much simpler, because you start from the color palette of your kitchen, while choosing future curtains a tone higher or lower, the main color of the kitchen itself. But about the length, it’s worth considering. Use our picture to determine the length of the future curtains.
When you have decided on a variant, then measure the height of your window depending on the chosen variant. For example, you did 1.70 cmbut you need to take a little more fabric on the curtains - 175 cmso that there is little left over.
You'll need:
- Any fabric of your choice - Depending on the option you have chosen and measuring your window.
- Ribbon with eyelets (sold in many different colors) - About 2 meters, depending on the width of your window.
- Sewing machine
- Thread (40 Density)
- Scissors
Sewing method
- We fabric the fabric according to the size of your window and leave excess on the seams of 0.5 cm on the sides, and on top of 2 cm and below about 5 cm.
- First, you need to sew a special braid to the curtains with the loops already prepared on it. The braid itself needs to be ironed with steam so that it smoothes and settles. We turn the curtain 2 cm from the top, onto which after, we attach the tape with the loops to ourselves, and sew with the help of the machine along the lower and upper edges. We twist the ends of the braid and also sew it on.
- Tuck the fabric on the sides by 0.5 cm, and again by 0.5, then sew. We turn the bottom of your curtains by 2.5 and 2.5 cm, and sew. So it will look best.
Everything, your curtains are ready, you can hang them on hooks on the loops of braid sewn to your curtains.
Ideas for kitchen curtains
You can also make one curtain with a belt, which is fixed with a hook on the wall. It is like a belt wrapping your curtains, revealing a view of the window.
Types of girdle:
Drapery curtains with lambrequins
We all girls want our bedroom or living room to look luxurious.Heavy, draped curtains with artsy lambrequins will help us in this difficult task. Such curtains are sewn only from high-quality, expensive fabrics, such as:
- Brocade fabric - this fabric is created on the basis of silk, with patterns in metallic color made on it.
- Jacquard - has high wear resistance, and is also not subject to temperature extremes. It does not fade, does not fade.
- Tapestry - The richest and most luxurious fabric of the existing. It is durable, does not fade, and also has the ability to repel dust from itself.
- Velvet - incredibly soft and smooth fabric to the touch, has an amazing property to shimmer with color. Velvet - is considered the fabric of kings, which is expressed in its high cost.
Of course, there are other cheaper substitutes for such fabrics: satin, gabardine, satin crepe, cam, damask.
Before you start sewing, remember that the standard sizes of curtains or curtains are 1.5 m, 2.9 m and 3 m.
Lambrequin Swag
Sewing lambrequins is possible from such fabric as: satin, ivy, velvet, taffeta, silk, polyester.
To properly fabric fabric for lambrequin swag, use our pattern picture. You can also take into account the fact that the patterns can be in the form of a trapezoid, which should be 1.5 times higher in height than the finished product. To correctly calculate the width, it is made up of the lengths of the sides of the trapezoid and its upper part.
After you start processing the edges. You need to twist the fabric on each edge of the product by 0.5 cm and sew with a sewing machine. Dense fabric is used for the curtains, so work carefully so you don’t need to repair the sewing machine later. Then you sew on the sides of the product, the curtain tape (also the curtain tape can be sewn on top of the product) and tighten it. You can adjust the tension force yourself, it all depends on your desire, which result to get.
Getting started sewing swag
Drapes with lambrequins consist of several parts: Cacilli, the central parts of the lambrequin in a semicircle (swag), as well as de jabbo.
- To get started, you should measure your window to know how much fabric you will need for a future product.
- Then use our pattern picture to properly cut the fabric. Then take the patterns and put them on the fabric, and add another 25%, this will be the necessary amount of fabric for sewing the swag.
- The fabric needs to be folded diagonally so that the wrong side is at the top, and then we apply our lambrequin pattern (a hanging semi-circle) to it.
- We circle the pattern and leave too much on the seams about two centimeters.
- As indicated on the pattern, mark the location of future folds with a white pencil ..
- Cut and hem the part with tape.
- We make the folds of the lambrequin by hand and connect using safety pins on both sides.
- Then sew the shoulders of the semicircle.
Pattern of a lambrequin de jabot.
We sew correctly:
- We take fabrics 4 times larger than the future pelmet in its finished form. We mark the points on the fabric of the future lambrequin according to the pattern and cut off the excess. The slice is processed with a slanting-fringe or fringe, sewing it to the product with the help of a machine, except for the upper edge. On the upper edge we put a mark on a width of 12 cm. We begin to lay folds, 10 cm wide, using manual basting. Having departed from the edge of the crease of 8 cm, we lay the second by going to the first 4 cm. We lay and fix all the folds. The remaining fabric is bent to the wrong side.
Cacilli
- Typically, cacilli is 40 cm long and 90 cm wide.
- The width of the lateral distances is about 9 cm, the width between the folds is 22 cm, the depth of the fold is 5.5 cm.
- On the cut part, you should take into account the allowances for processing edges of about 3 cm.
- Use our tooltip pattern.
Getting started collecting parts
Stitch the parts from the middle if they have all four parts. To correctly apply the swag, it must overlap half the cacelle. The last elements are attached to the side lambrequins - de jabbo. A semicircular lambrequin partially covers it on top.It is also mandatory to leave a stock where the bar will be attached. Usually it is about 5 cm. When everything was sewn, we begin to sew the trims. Attach a bar to the center of the pelmet in the middle. Then sew them in a straight line and iron the seam with an iron.
After we sew the drapery. Turn the sides of the drapery and planks to the inside. Then bend the top edge of the plank so that it lies on the drapery and wraps it. Iron fold. After we turn the bar on the drapery and sew their edges on top.
The most complex details of curtains with lambrequins are ready. Now we need to process the free edges of the fabric of your choice for curtains - oblique trim or fringe, and upholstery is sewn up. After ironing the curtain and hang on the window.
Remember that your future curtain depends on the height and width of your window. Also at the final stage, you hang with the curtains a beautiful, patterned tulle that will cover your window while the curtains are assembled on the sides. Use our pattern pictures and it will be easier for you to understand how to do this correctly.
Patterns
Ideas for curtains with lambrequins
