How To Make Custom Curtains

Yesterday I told you how to make your own curtain rods on the cheap, and today we are moving onto curtains! 

  Curtains are so supurbly easy to make. If you can sew a straight stitch on your sewing machine, than you can make curtains. If you don't own a sewing machine than you could sew it by hand, it would just take longer. 

So the first step is to buy your fabric. I recommend using home decor fabric, but you can certainly use whatever fabric you like, including sheets or dropcloths. I'm working on debrowning my living room and this is the fabric I chose to dress up my naked windows.

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The first step is to cut your fabric. Measure the length from the top of your curtain rod to the floor and then add 12 inches. My windows measured 92 inches, so I cut the fabric to 104 inches each. 

Then your going to need to iron. First iron the edges of your curtain by folding the blank edge over until you can barely see the print.

Then fold them over one more time and press. This gives your curtains a finished edge.

Next iron the top and bottom by folding it over once and pressing.

Then fold over the top making sure your mindful of the way your pattern runs...you don't end up with upside down curtains! Make it about 3-4 inches wide...I just used my phone to measure.

Then stitch all your edges except the bottom.

Next your going to need to hang the curtains in order to hem them to the correct length.
 I wanted my curtains to look like back tab curtains (which I show you how to make here) without actually having to sew back tabs. So I bought these rings

 and clipped them to the back of the curtain instead if the top, like so...

Once your curtains are hung, fold up the bottoms so that the curtains barely grazes the floor and pin.

Then take it down, hem it, and hang it back up. Done! Cheap and easy custom curtains!

Here is my window before..

and after!

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