DIY Shirred Curtain Sewing Styles

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D I Y

Smocking shirring tape for drapery or diamonds pleats tape. Sew-on tape to make curtain header with diamonds pleats by pulling cords. There are 3 rows of pockets on the back to insert drapery hooks. The smocking finish is perfect for stationary panels, valances, or balloon shades. It is not recommended for opening and closing draperies. The diamonds pleat tape provides an elegant drapery header classical style. Width: 4\

Sewing – Ideas and Tips

Transforming fabric panels into curtains is easy! Well hello, good-looking windows! It’s amazing how a window refresh can update the entire look of room. It’s even more amazing that curtains can be made pretty easily using Dritz® drapery tapes. Our friends at Sew4Home™ are really experts on the topic of window treatments. Are you ready to become an expert, too? Check out this rod loop tape. Simply sew this tape onto the back of fabric panels and turn them into curtains. They look so professional and are so easy to hang! Clip ring tape is also sewn onto the back of fabric panels. The tape has little openings to accommodate clip rings, ensuring that your hardware is evenly spaced, and that your curtains are hanging straight! Iron-on shirring tape is yet another wonder product! See it in action here – it really is easy to apply, right? Nice pleats and gathers are yours in an instant. Ready to get started? Visit Sew4Home™ to see how to use these tapes to make a variety of curtains. Their site is packed with a variety of curtain styles, and step-by-step photography and instructions show you precisely how it’s done. Other resources include the curtain …

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Transforming fabric panels into curtains is easy! Well hello, good-looking windows! It’s amazing how a window refresh can update the entire look of room. It’s even more amazing that curtains can be made pretty easily using Dritz® drapery tapes. Our friends at Sew4Home™ are really experts on the topic of window treatments. Are you ready to become an expert, too? Check out this rod loop tape. Simply sew this tape onto the back of fabric panels and turn them into curtains. They look so professional and are so easy to hang! Clip ring tape is also sewn onto the back of fabric panels. The tape has little openings to accommodate clip rings, ensuring that your hardware is evenly spaced, and that your curtains are hanging straight! Iron-on shirring tape is yet another wonder product! See it in action here – it really is easy to apply, right? Nice pleats and gathers are yours in an instant. Ready to get started? Visit Sew4Home™ to see how to use these tapes to make a variety of curtains. Their site is packed with a variety of curtain styles, and step-by-step photography and instructions show you precisely how it’s done. Other resources include the curtain …

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DIY-TAPE CREATIONS

Fabulous for making pillows, skirted storage, DIY curtains \u0026 more. Oh, are you in for a treat. Our new Dritz® iron-on shirring tape has really been a hit on social media. Why? Because it’s a really cool product that’s fairly undiscovered. It’s super easy to use, and lets you make soft pleats on fabric panels with no sewing required. You can use it to make accessories, table/shelf/sink skirts, DIY curtains and more. See how! So what exactly is Dritz® iron-on shirring tape? It’s a woven tape that has rows of cords running through it. The tape is attached to a flat fabric panel and then the cords are pulled to gather the fabric into even pleats, like this … To attach the tape to your fabric, you simply iron it on. (This, by the way, is what makes our shirring tape unique, and also so darn easy to use.) See how the cords are then pulled to create the pleating? The fullness of the pleats is determined by how tight the cords are pulled. Make sense? Now you’re probably wondering, well, what can you do with this fabulous tape? Glad you asked! It’s great for making pillows. The shirring tape …

DIY WITH FABRICS AND NEEDLEWORK

I needed some new curtains to go with my new bathroom. So I had and idea to shirr a curtain to add a little “pop” but I didn’t anticipate how beautiful they would be. I LOVE THEM, I just love the look of them they turned out better than I imagined. Now I want to make more for my daughters bedrooms. Oh and they were super easy to make just a little elastic thread and a pre-made $5.00 curtain. This is how I did it. You’ll need a spool of elastic thread. and an empty bobbin. Loosely wrap the elastic thread around your bobbin until it is full. Then place it in you machine just like you normally would. Set your stich length to the longest stich and get sewing. Make sure you have your curtain right side up while you sew. Don’t forget to go back and forth at the beginning and the end. Keep sewing right side up until you have the desired width. I used both of my hands to smooth out the un-shirred part and to help guide it through the machine. My original plan was to shirr the whole curtain (actually my original plan was to to something a little different) but I liked it like this a little better. I still want to try the original plan for something though so stay tuned. So in the end I used one really long curtain. I cut it in half and used both ends to fill up the window. I could have used half of it and shirred less rows and it would have worked too. LIKE THIS I also thought about making a valence.LIKE THIS (kind of, I didn’t make the valence so I did
n’t finish it off) But since I had the curtain I used all of it LIKE THIS