Curtain Fabric Gives You Endless Options For Your Curtains (Curtain Fabric Gives You Endless Options For Your Curtains)
As a seamstress, I have never purchased curtains for my own home. If you go to any retail store, you will find your choices are limited and your selection, well, there really is no selection. Now, if you go into the fabric store, you will find your selection of curtains has just become limitless and the selection confined only to your imagination. I prefer option number two. Why settle for something when you have the option to create?
Before you can choose your curtain fabric you first need to understand the feeling of the room you are making the curtains for. For example, my 14 year old daughter likes dolphins and wanted a blue room. Her walls are light blue with a dark blue ceiling. The light blue walls have been speckled with the same dark blue from the ceiling. She did not want a plain and boring curtain.
For this bedroom, I decided to make two different curtains. The curtain material for the first, the under layer of the curtain, had two layers; a light blue sheer with a knitted top of various shades of blue. This curtain would block out the heat of the sun while tying the two room colors together.
For her second curtain, I found a really fun printed pattern. It was a light blue cotton scrub fabric with fish all over it. First I made a valance. It looked great but was not quite what I wanted. I then constructed two inch strips of fabric with the edges finished. I attached those to the back of the valance. The finished result is a valance with waves hanging down.
The background curtain has the appearance of an ocean with the top curtain having the ability to be changed. What I mean by this is that my likes to tie the strips together or tie the background with them. She just plays with the curtain fabric to make it different. Sometimes she pulls the under curtain to the side and opens her window allowing the strips to blow in the breezes giving them a waving effect.
