Make dovetail curtains yourself
You can sew an elegant dovetail curtain for your living room or bedroom yourself in just a few steps. Just buy some nice fabric and get started. You will be rewarded with a one-of-a-kind item that nobody but you owns in this form.
What you need:
- sewing machine
- Centimeter measure
- Pins or chalk blowers
- Gathering tape
- possibly. Lead tape
- Silk ribbon
Features of a dovetail curtain
- Anyone who sees a dovetail curtain for the first time will notice that the fabric scarves don't just hang straight down in this version.
- Instead, the lower parts of both fabric scarves are sewn together. In the middle there is often a bow or a gathering tape.
- Visually, this looks like an elegant dovetail.
How to prepare to sew
- You can sew Prepare a dovetail curtain by first measuring the length and width of the corresponding window.
- Then plan the drapery of the curtain. For this you should estimate two and a half times the measured window width.
- You can match the drapery to the fabric used if you use a pleated tape. The distance you have to keep when gathering depends on the number of individual folds. The amount of fabric you need is given in percent in specialist shops, so you need twice the fabric width if 200% is given.
- Now calculate the required fabric width and length. Make sure that you have to sew a few cm around the fabric at the top and bottom. For this you should add 10 cm at the top and bottom, i.e. a total of 20 cm more for the length.
- Then purchase the fabric, girder tape, lead tape, silk ribbon, and sewing thread from your local fabric store.
Sewing curtains made easy - instructions
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Make the dovetail curtain with a sewing machine
- Start sewing the top and then the bottom of the first silk scarf. To do this, fold the curtain down 5 cm and pin it with needles. Repeat this on the underside and then sew the seams with the sewing machine. Then repeat the same thing with the other curtain scarf.
- Then sew the pleated tape flat on the top seam of the Scarves a. Then do the same with the second scarf.
- Now sew in the tail throw. To do this, first lay both scarves in front of you, spread out lengthways on the floor. Now you should pin the right side of the left scarf to the left side of the left scarf. You do this with the pins. It is important that you then sew the two end pieces together with the sewing machine.
- When this is done, hang the scarves in front of your window.
- Now tie the silk ribbon around the sewn point and make a large loop into it.
- Your new dovetail curtain is ready.
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