The canopy over bed can give to your room romantic look or decorate corner in east style; it can be the last stroke for creation of the medieval atmosphere or just easy grid protecting the child from sunlight and mosquitoes. The choice of fabric and its cut depends on functions which your canopy and from its form has to carry out.
It is required to you
- Fabric
- Needles, threads
- Rope
- Sewing machine
- Tailor's meter
Instruction
1. Bed curtains on shtangeesl you are going to place canopy on the bar acting from wall over the middle of bed, at measurement of length of necessary fabric it is convenient to use rope.
2. Throw rope through bar, correct it and tie small knots on the ends where you want your future canopy to come to an end. Remove and measure rope. Measure bar length. As such design means that both parties of canopy bear decorative function, define whether you will sew lining to fabric? If you want lining from the same fabric, increase length of fabric necessary for you by two. Measure circle of bar and add length of circle plus 0.5 centimeters to the turned-out digit. It is joint margin and the coulisse. Add 10 centimeters on bottom podgibka. If you want fabric to be draped on width, increase bar length by 1.5.
3. Buy fabric of the necessary length and width. If you have monophonic fabric or fabric with patterned which is not oriented to top bottom, work with the whole panel. If the direction of the drawing is important for your fabric, cut out it in the middle on two panels and unroll so that the drawing "rose" up on both halves. If you have canopy with decorative lining, at first tack and stitch lining fabric to the main. Connect fabric the hidden seam. In this case it will not be necessary to tuck bottom as edges of fabric all the same will go to seam. Steam seams. If you have single-layer fabric, turn in edges and bottom, zastrochita.
4. If you have two panels of fabric, combine them at the edges and connect seam. If one, put in half. Zastrochite drawstring at distance equal length of circle of bar plus 0.5 centimeters divided into two. As necessary put decorative folds. Pass bar through the coulisse and put on her tip. Your canopy is ready.
5. Polog-kupolkupoloobrazny bed curtains usually fix on bamboo hoop therefore it is meant that for it light fabrics – silk use, chiffon, calico, organza.
6. Measure distance from ceiling to bed. Measure bed width, separate into two. Add to your length. Add distance on which you want your bed curtains to hang down at the edges of bed, having measured it from edge of bed. Learn width of fabric necessary to you, having measured bed on perimeter and having added about 0.5 on drapery. Buy fabric.
7. Process edges of fabric. At light fabrics they are enough to be swept off. On the top edge sew loops. They can be made of the same fabric, of silk ribbon, of cord. Put on fabric hoop.