The variety of curtains offered today by producers and the trading organizations can strike any, even very experienced person. What you will only not see on counters: curtains undershirts, on ties, with lambrequin, on eyelets and magnets. The most widespread type – freely hanging down fabric panels from eaves moving horizontally. One of the most used methods of fastening of curtains are loops which with success can be sewn independently.
It is required to you
- - eaves;
- - curtains;
- - tape;
- - sewing machine;
- - threads.
Instruction
1. Before beginning to be engaged in loops, decide on height and process curtain top. Consider that width of assembly tape surely has to close from inner side podgib fabrics. If eaves open, and you use narrow tape, then to amount of fabric, necessary for processing, add 3 cm. It becomes in order that loops did not look out over curtain.
2. Loops it is possible to fix to curtain by means of velcros or the fastened buttons, sometimes the role of loops is played by the rings hooked to curtain by clips or magnetic rings. Effectively the curtains which are tied up by bows to bar look.
3. The loop can be made of strips of fabric, lace or just thick strong thread. For this purpose it is necessary to decide on quantity of loops, to measure distance between loops and to note chalk or simple pencil these places. Loops can be made long, it is possible short, it depends on eaves, type of curtains and interior. But they have to be identical. Before cutting fabric strip, surely measure, and then stitch each loop lengthways. To sew loops manually – long and troublesome occupation therefore use the sewing machine. Remember that loops have to be strong. Besides, it is possible to get in shop ready tape with loops and just to sew to its curtain.
4. Loops need to be sewn on assembly tape before it is connected to the curtain. The tape can shrink therefore it is previously best of all to press it about the ferry.
5. The tape is put by ready loops down, the face side of the top allowance from above is imposed, edges are combined. It is necessary to stitch so that the line made on fabric reverse has taken tape. Therefore it is necessary to maintain space from the upper bound of fabric at the identical level on all line. In case fabric is transparent, it becomes with ease. During the work with opaque fabric use the directing ruler which is built in the sewing machine or the magnetic limiter.
6. After the line is ready, make clip and cut off tape with allowance in 2 cm. Then tuck allowance, wrap tape on curtain reverse on bend of the lower part. For further actions iron the iron bend. The ready line should not look through on face side of curtain as it remained under tape.
7. Invert curtain face side, the tape has to be from below, make by means of marking the second, fixing, line. Then invert curtain on reverse, decompose in all length and iron the iron allowance on all width of curtain. After that curtains can be hung up on eaves.