How to Make Curtains
Measuring and Making the Perfect Window Coverings for Every Room in Your Home. A Storey BASICS (R) Title
Published on 30. June 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-61212-539-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Workman Publishing
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
145 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61212-539-8 (9781612125398)
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Rebecca Yaker
How to Make Curtains
Measuring and Making the Perfect Window Coverings for Every Room in Your Home. A Storey BASICS® Title
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06/2015
Storey Publishing, LLC
€6.99
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Person
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.
Content
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
Index
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
Index