Curtains with your own hands

Beautiful curtains can dramatically change the design of the room. As a rule, using recommendations for beginners, each hostess can sew simple blinds with her own hands and get a product that will decorate the room. They will create in the room an atmosphere of coziness, tranquility, harmony, security and comfort.

Curtains with your hands - step by step instruction

Consider the process of manufacturing a small curtain of light material, consisting of four parts.

In order to sew the curtains with your own hands, you will need sewing accessories and fasteners:

  1. Sewing of any product begins with design and measurements. A pattern of the future curtain is made with the sizes. In this case, for a curtain length of 140 cm with two frills on the sides and two central ties, 7.5 m of fabric with a maximum width of 150 cm is needed.
  2. The cloth is spread on the floor for convenient cutting.
  3. For side frills a piece of fabric with a length of 2.5 meters is cut diagonally. For marking, the building laser level is used.
  4. The narrow side of the canvas is treated with a seam. For this, the fabric is bent twice and is spread.
  5. On the oblique edge of the two lateral elements of the curtain, an oblique bake is attached.
  6. The seams are smoothed.
  7. For folds on the upper side of the pieces, distances of 5 and 25 cm are noted. From the outer edge, 10 cm is first retracted for bending.
  8. Gathering folds. The edge of 10 cm is bent.
  9. The remaining folds are assembled, chipped and stitched.
  10. A long tie is made 140 cm long and 80 cm wide. To do this, a piece of fabric 2.5 m long and 110 cm wide bends in half and is cut diagonally.
  11. On the slanting part sewn on the bake.
  12. To create bow folds, distances along the long side of 5 cm are noted.
  13. The folds are collected alternately in different directions, are spread out.
  14. A small tie is made, 40 cm long and 80 cm wide. To do this, take 2.5 m of cloth with a width of 40 cm. It is folded in half and the part is cut with the help of a laser level.
  15. At the edge of the sewn oblique bake.
  16. Fabric folds in half and marks the distances under the folds of 20 and 2.5 cm from the middle. At the edges of 10 cm in the folds will not enter. Gathers from the edges gather to meet each other and are tied up.
  17. All parts are chipped and stitched together. In this case, it is necessary to take into account the length of the curtain to make it 140 cm.
  18. A detail of 10 cm in width and 140 cm in length is cut off. It is smoothed out halfway. Take the curtain tape and pristrachivaetsya.
  19. The part with curtain tape is sewn to the curtain in such a way that the tape remains on the wrong side. It is used to further suspend curtains on hooks.
  20. A beautiful air curtain is ready.

Such light curtains can be hung in the kitchen , in the nursery , to use a similar model for designing long versions of curtains. Textiles of different texture can be used as details.

A little effort and desire will help create beautiful curtains, which will long please the eye and become the pride of the hostess. Sewing curtains with your own hands is an interesting and profitable occupation, because they are much cheaper than finished products, and picking up and making the model you like is not so difficult.