Home sewing

Barneysmom

Does anyone do home sewing?
I've always made my own curtains, today I bought some really thick fabric to make some for my bedroom. I'm thinking of this coming winter and being warm - but this time I don't know whether to make seperate lining or make the lining part of the curtain......... or to double line them?
I think I might get a blackout blind to hang behind them aswell.

pol

If you make them separately, they're easier to wash. I used blackout material as a separate lining with heavy curtains and it's so much easier to handle them. They are great at keeping the draughts out, and I can't imagine going back to just curtains.

pol

Barneysmom

Oh dear, I only bought plain lining I could make the curtains with ordinary lining integrated, then make blackout linings to hang on the back of them aswell?

Rikki

Barneysmom wrote: »

Oh dear, I only bought plain lining I could make the curtains with ordinary lining integrated, then make blackout linings to hang on the back of them aswell?

If you did do it that way you'd have the choice whether to use both or just the curtains. Handy for different times of the year and temperatures.

Barneysmom

Yes, that's true, thank you.
I don't want to make any more mistakes today, I read the price of the fabric wrong and it cost me £15 more than I thought - oops. Never mind, it's very thick.
Can you get black blackout lining or is it always white?

Rikki

Barneysmom wrote: »

Yes, that's true, thank you.
I don't want to make any more mistakes today, I read the price of the fabric wrong and it cost me £15 more than I thought - oops. Never mind, it's very thick.
Can you get black blackout lining or is it always white?

Its normally only white, ivory or cream. However you can get blackout fabric in various colours. This is designed to be a curtain in its own right. Never tried it as a curtain lining myself.

pol

I've seen it in white and a sort of creamy off white. never seen black, but it might be available. Or you could dye it yourself.

Rikki is right, making the blackout lining separately give you much more choice for the different seasons. It comes in handy for me all year round as the house facing my bedroom has two security lights that come on when a midge moves!

pol

Barneysmom

I know what you mean, my neighbour does too, plus the sun rises outside my window and at 5 in the morning it's a bit too early for me

Seakay

I've done some simple sewing before, but I've never heard of doing curtain linings seperately from the curtains - how does that work?

Rikki

Seakay wrote: »

I've done some simple sewing before, but I've never heard of doing curtain linings seperately from the curtains - how does that work?

You make the lining up the same way you would the curtain only shorter and not quite as wide.

With the wrong sides together you put the curtain hook through the lining then the curtain. Hang them up as normal.

Or some use a hook to join the lining to the curtain and then seperate hooks to hang them on the rail.

maryb

you need special lining heading tape for this but in many ways it's easier to make the curtain and lining separately