I just had the most fun making curtains for our TV room, and it
was EASY!
The Pattern is an
easy one, McCALL’s 4331, where the panels are cut by
suggestion. The interesting part of this
comes from using two fabrics, and an innovative mounting hardware: QuikTach Tape™ and Flex-On Loops™. This is proprietary can be gotten only from www.sewingpatterns.com.
The QuikTach tape comes in 100in lengths with 10 holes pre-cut
for the Flex-On loops. Colors abound for
both loops and fabric. The neat thing is
that once you have mounted your window hardware, you don’t have to take the rod
down to hang the curtains.
The panels were
measured to fall on the floor with no spare fabric to “puddle” at the
windows. The hem was accomplished by
using stitch-witchery no-sew webbing.
The water marks are a result of the using a wet cloth to fuse according
to the webbing instructions and dried with no problem.
The best part of my
project, I think, was that by using the entire length of the QuikTach™ tape, I could overlap the two panels in the
center to ensure that the window was fully covered so that when we watched TV,
there would be no errant light. I opted
against using swag hooks or other ways to “push back” the panels, and simply
included ribbon in the side seam (when I joined the lining to the drapery) and
I can tie them open whenever I need to.
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