Your Curtain Fabric and Your Sewing Equipment

Look around your room before you decide on the curtain fabric you buy. What are you aiming for? Are you giving the room a complete makeover or are you working with what you already have and the existing style and colors in the room? Whilst colors of course are important, try and decide on a style you wish to achieve in the room, and this will influence the type of fabric you purchase.

Formal and elegant? casual and country? contemporary, modern? Some curtain styles suit certain environments. A casually furnished room calls for simple drapes headed with gathers or pencil-pleat curtains, using lighter-weight fabrics. A more formal setting, of darker, rich woods and leather furiture for example, needs matching formal curtain headings such as a french pleat or goblet heading in sumptuous jacquards or silks.

Achieving the look you dream of is easier when armed with the correct curtain making equipment. The whole process of measuring, cutting, sewing, pleating, gathered and so is made simpler just by being well equipped before you start.