How to Make Curtains
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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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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
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- CHAPTER ONE: WINDOW DRESSINGS
- CHAPTER TWO: FROM THE TOP DOWN
- CHAPTER THREE: FABRICS, LENGTHS, AND LININGS
- CHAPTER FOUR: MEASURING UP
- CHAPTER FIVE: CALCULATING YARDAGE
- CHAPTER SIX: A FEW BASIC TECHNIQUES
- CHAPTER SEVEN: SEWING YOUR CURTAINS
- Standard Metric Conversion Formulas
- INDEX
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