How to Make Curtains: Measuring and Making the Perfect Window Coverings for Every Room in Your Home. A Storey BASICS® Title

by Rebecca Yaker

Overview

Rebecca Yaker, co-author of the best-selling One-Yard Wonders, offers this complete introduction to making your own curtains, covering everything from measuring to calculating yardage, choosing the best fabrics, sewing your curtains, adding linings, and selecting the right fixtures and hardware for hanging. She includes step-by-step instructions for making five different curtain styles: pleats, eyelets, tab tops, tie tops, and rod pockets.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781612125398
Publisher:	Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	06/30/2015
Series:	Storey Basics
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	882,542
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Rebecca Yaker began sewing at age five. After eight years of designing apparel for two of America’s largest retailers, Rebecca started her own design business, creating one-of-a-kind baby and adult apparel and accessory items in her Minneapolis design studio.  She knits by hand and machine, sews, crochets, weaves, dabbles in reupholstery, consults on design, and most recently is passionately learning to become a cordwainer (a leather shoe maker). She is the co-author of One-Yard Wonders, Fabric-by-Fabric One-Yard Wonders, and Little One-Yard Wonders. Learn more about her at www.rebeccayaker.com.

Table of Contents

Chapter One: Window Dressings
Anatomy of a Window - Window Coverings Defined

Chapter Two: From the Top Down
Fixtures and Hardware - Heading Styles

Chapter Three: Fabrics, Lengths, and Linings
Choosing Your Fabric - Classic Curtain Lengths - Types of Lining

Chapter Four:  Measuring Up
Taking Accurate Window Measurements - Structural Elements of Curtains

Chapter Five: Calculating Yardage
Curtain Fullness - Curtain Width - Curtain Length - Matching Pattern Repeats

Chapter Six:  A Few Basic Techniques
Finishing Edges - Seam Variations - Using Curtain Weights - Adding Lining

Chapter Seven- Sewing Your Curtains
Unlined Rod Pocket Curtains - Lined Rod Pocket Curtains - Tab Top and Tie Top Curtains - Hidden Tab Curtains - Grommet Top Curtains - Instant No-Sew Curtains - Fabric Tiebacks

Metric Conversion Charts

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