Create your own curtains - it's easier than you think!

Contents:

• And you already have the curtains by yourself?
• How to sew curtains itself?
• Tips & Warnings

Search curtains that would fit your decor can be difficult. You can find the sample of curtains, but the style may not be what you imagined it, or the material may be you do not like.

Fortunately, you can put an end to your search unsuccessful, creating curtains for the living room with his hands.
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And you already have the curtains by yourself?

Take control of your home decor, learn to sew curtains.

Curtains on order can be very expensive and not everyone can afford them, and curtains that offer a network of retail stores are not designed specifically for your windows. Therefore, economical and easy option solution to the dilemma - to sew your own curtains from a material that you like. you will not believe how easy it is to do it, even for beginners. Decorate the window curtains that you built with your own hands, you make your room more comfortable, beautiful, modern and unique.

In addition, you will be pleasantly surprised when the guests, going into the living room, will be delighted with your needlework. After all, there is nothing better than a fantasy housewife who brought to life in the form of beautiful curtains! Following the recommendations of which are described below, you will see how easy and fun to decorate his house with his own hands!

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How to sew curtains itself?

What you will need:

• Roulette,
• cloth
• scissors,
• braid,
• iron and ironing board,
• corresponding to the color of the skin,
• sewing machine,
• cornice.

Instructions:

• Choose a fabric that meets your needs for lighting. Since there is an example of the curtains without lining, they will miss some sunlight.

1. Curtains made of lace or sheer fabric to miss a maximum of light into the room.
2. If you want to eliminate sunlight, pay attention to the heavy linen fabrics.
3. If you are choosing a material with a pattern, try to find a pattern that would have been copied on one side only, or to have this tissue was identical pattern on both sides. The fact is that when the sun shines through the fabric, you can see both sides of the material immediately.

• Select the texture of fabric. Although you will not touch the curtains all the time, the texture of matter gives a different kind of curtains that hung in the light.

1. Cotton is the most common material for curtains and the easiest when sewing.
2. Avoid the use of silk or satin, as they will look worse in the sunlight.
3. Do not choose a fabric that is too tight, because it will not drape where you hang it.

• Hang a curtain rod. To find out how much material you need, you need to hang a curtain rod: the higher it is placed, the more tissue is needed.

1. To create the illusion of higher ceilings, you should hang a curtain rod as close as possible to the ceiling.
2. Measure the height from the base ring curtains on the ledge to the floor.

• Measure the width of the material for curtains.

1. If you want the curtains completely covered the window, measure the width of half of the window, plus 5 cm. For example, if your window is 48 cm in width, each curtain shall be 24 cm, plus an extra 5 cm, that is 29 cm for each half of the window.
2. If the curtains will perform only a decorative function, it is sufficient to leave the increase in the tissue 5-6 mm.

• Create an edge on the curtains, leaving 1 cm on each side (just tuck the fabric edge on the front side to the reverse). Proutyuzhte and Stitch on the sewing machine all the edges of the curtains.
• Stitched elastic tape to the wrong side of the curtain, with which you will attach it to the eaves.
• Attach the ring-clamps to the band. Spread them along the top of the curtains, the curtains hung down beautiful waves.
• Hang your curtains. Insert the ring clamp onto the ledge and adjust to meet your aesthetic preferences. Curtains for living by their own hands, ready!

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Tips & Warnings

• Measure twice, cut once, as mistakes can be costly.
• If you want to visually increase the size of your window, the sheer size of curtains, whichever is greater.
• Remember, some tissues susceptible to shrinkage. So be sure to consult the seller before you make your choice.
• Better to buy material for the curtains in the retail store and not on the Internet, as most tissues presented on the Internet, look in reality very different. The computer screen can not convey the brilliance or the texture of the material.
• Before you buy the fabric, compare prices at several stores. You may be able to find the same material, but a few hundred rubles cheaper.
• Already own hands sewed curtains unlined, but you are not satisfied bandwidth material? Buy a removable lining and just hook the their existing curtains.

• The lush curtains, made with his own hands from inexpensive, simple cotton look more luxurious than the "closer" to your window curtains made of fine silk.
• If you are using a diaper for your curtains, line drawing of the entire width of the curtain to inspecting all of the living room, you will see one continuous, uninterrupted pattern.