How to make curtains with no sewing !

You will join the widths of fabric using ?wonder web? a fusible iron on tape that glues fabrics together. Lay the fabrics patterned sides facing together. Then line up the side seams so they lye together and insert a strip of wonder web between the side seams.



Then press on with a hot steam iron this will glue the fabrics together. I put my ironing board next to the table. Then lay the fabric over the table and ironing board. This join should be reasonably solid, but it will not put up with a lot of tugging. So exercise some care when making and using your new curtains. Then fold over the two side seams you have glued together. Then glue down again with another strip of wonder web to double secure the seam. You can see how simple it is to learn how to make curtains with the simple method.

Creating the side seams

The next step is to turn over the sides of your fabric First turn over one inch and press down then turn over one inch again. Then slip a strip of wonder web under the new turnover and press down again with a hot steam iron. Repeat this for the other 3 sides.

Creating the bottom hem

Creating the bottom hem is nice and easy. Fold over the fabric one inch and press down. Then turn over a further 3 inches and press down. Finally place a strip of wonder web under the top edge of the turnover and press down using a hot steam iron.

Finally the top of your curtain

You need to turn over the fabric at the top of your curtain by 2 inches and press down. Then turn over again by 5 inches and press down.

Next step is to wrap your 5 inch wide fusible buckram into the fabric. This is going to form your curtain header. The buckram tape is stiffener that will give us a good shape to the top of our curtain. It is what will make the wave effect that we want.

Then you need to press down the header with the buckram wrapped in with your steam iron. I recommend you press down both sides. Were getting close to finishing now the final step in how to make curtains is to insert a strip of your wonder web under the bottom edge of your new header. This will hold down the header where it is folded over. See the photo lower down.

The photo below is the finished curtain header ready to have the hooks put in. We need special curtain hooks for this job.

You are now finished

Well you have learned how to make curtains the easy way. That's it all made and ready to hang. These are super easy if you just take your time and follow the guide. The only thing left to do is hang them and for this you will require some pin hooks to do that job. So take a look at the next page to what they are and how to do that.

Finally fitting your pin hooks and hanging your new curtains

You will need to insert your pin hooks to the top of your curtain approx every 5 to 6 inches apart. Start with a pin hook about 2 inches in from one side and work your way across. Then finish off with the last pin hook 2 inches from the other side. Nearly forgot you need to make sure you end up with an EVEN amount of pin hooks in each curtain. This is critical to make them hang properly. You will see why when you come to hang.



If you find the last couple of hooks to close or to far apart then work your way back a few pin hooks along to even up the spacing. Now to hang your new NO SEW wave curtains. You need to make sure before you hang your curtains that your decorative rod or track has an even amount of rings or hook gliders.

Next start to put your pin hooks into the rings or gliders. Making sure you have the right curtain hung on the right side. The half widths of curtain should be on the outside ends of your rod or track.

The stiff buckram header on your curtains will make hooking up your curtains a little awkward so take your time and bend it back and forth a bit.

Now you have your curtains all hooked up and hanging. The next job to do is to move the stiff header into position. To create the ?Wave? effect we want we need push and pull the header back and forth. This creates the effect we need.

Need some pin hooks then again just look in the Bargains Store

Almost forgot

After you have learned how to make curtains and hung and dressed them you will need to tie them into their pleats for a few days. This is to "train" them to hold their pleats. This is very simple as I have in the photo below use strips of polythene or anything else to hand. The fabric I used in these curtains hung very well straight away. Usually though it won't.

So you will need to tie more than one band around the bottom of your curtains. I usually tie one bottom, middle and top. Then leave for a few days. If they still don't hang as well as you would like then tie them up for a few more days. So there you have it all very simple just follow the how to make curtains guide with step by step instructions and you can't go far wrong.



Your beautiful new wave curtains I really hope you take a little time out and use this how to make curtains guide to make a new wave curtain for your own home. I have a page on my website where people who have made shades and curtains using my guides can then show then off to the world.

You can send me a digital photo and some comments on how easy or hard you found it to do. Maybe even do some tips for to help other people too follow. The great thing is your creation will have a page of it's own on the website. You can tell your family and friends how you learned how to make curtains and to go and have a look even if they live to far away to come over to your house to see it.



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