How To Make Curtains, From Tier To Bunk Bed Curtains
How to make curtains is a time honored tradition that can not only be fun, but save you money as well. There are several books on how to make curtains at the library, bookstores and online. Looking through pattern books and decorating books help with ideas for what you might want your curtains to look like.
Once you have an idea in mind, you must pick out the material. Depending on the room you want to make the curtains for, this will determine what material you choose. If you want something simple, such as tier curtains, which are curtains that have more than one layer, than you can accomplish this with tie backs or ribbons and plastic bags or stuffing. How to make tier curtains takes practice to get both sides even, but it can be done. Tiered curtains can be big and billowy, stuffing them with plastic grocery bags or stuffing to ‘puff’ them out and then tie them up and do the same all the way down the window sill or all the way to the floor makes nice curtains. Or tier curtains can be flat and pleated with no ‘puff’. This is a style judgment call.
How to sew your own curtains is a bit different than how to sew curtains. If you are not good with a sewing machine, a needle and thread maybe all you need to sew great looking curtains. First, make sure to measure the top of the curtain material down about eight to ten inches because you need your curtain rod to go through this opening. Sew a straight line across where you’ve folded the eight to ten inches down over the long portion of the material laid down. That will be the top. Hem the bottom and if the sides are unfinished you need to hem them as well. Sewing curtains is pretty simple.
You can also make or sew bunk bed curtains for the kid’s rooms. Boys like tents and girls like princess castles and sewing them together is pretty easy once you have all the pieces together and know where they go. There are kits out there, online and in the hobby/craft stores, that will help you make bunk bed curtains for your children’s beds. Sewing secret pockets and flaps onto the bunk bed curtains is great for when the ‘princess’ needs a nap or the great hunter wants some privacy to read his book he keeps in the pocket. There are many styles of bunk bed curtains for kid’s rooms and you can make or sew them pretty simply.
Another neat curtain for a teenager’s room is the beaded door curtain. This usually has a pattern built into it of a bird or land of paradise where the colored beads make up the scene. The beaded door curtains with the scenes on them are harder to make or sew than the plain beaded door curtains. But there are several books on how to make curtains, your own beaded door curtains available.
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