Create a window decoration with curtains
A window decoration with curtains beautifies every room. You can opt for curtains that harmonize tone-on-tone with the wall design, or use them as an eye-catcher in the room. It is not difficult for you to make over curtains yourself.
What you need:
- Curtain fabric
- Curling tape
- Rollers
- Tape measure
- scissors
- Pins
- Sewing thread
- sewing machine
How to prepare the sewing for the window decoration
- Think about how you want to use the window decoration with over curtains. If the curtains are only to serve as a side closure for the window, you do not need more than the width of the fabric for a curtain scarf.
- If you want to darken the room with the over curtains, it is necessary to measure the width of the window and multiply the dimension by two in order to leave enough room for the curtains to obtain.
- Measure the length of the window and decide whether the window decoration should end with the window sill or extend to the floor.
- If the over curtains are used to darken, make sure that the fabric is opaque.
- When buying, make sure that the fabric is easy to care for and does not get heavily wrinkled when washed. It is exhausting to iron long curtains.
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Sew decoration with curtains for ceiling rails
- Cut the fabric for the curtains according to your measurements with a 4 cm hem allowance.
- To attach the window decoration to a ceiling rail, you will need curling tape. Measure the appropriate piece according to the width of the curtain scarf.
- Fold over the top hem of the curtains and use pins to pin the gathering tape onto the fabric.
- sew Use the sewing machine to lock the tape on both the upper and the lower edge.
- Close the lower hem of the curtain with a stitching seam.
- Insert the rollers into the loops of the gathering tape and close the hooks.
- Place the curtains in folds by allowing you to pull the fabric together through the woven thread in the gathering tape.
- Insert the rollers into the ceiling rail to hang up the curtains as window decorations.
Make window decorations from curtains with loops
- Close the upper and lower hem of the curtains with a stitching seam.
- Cut the fabric for the loops and sew them lengthways together on the wrong side.
- Turn the fabric over and iron the loops so that the seam is in the middle of the fabric.
- Sew the loops for the window decorations to the top edge of the curtains with lock stitch at regular intervals.
- Pull a curtain rod through the loops and hang the curtains on the window.
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