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Welcome back to the part two in this series of videos
where I'm showing you how to make thermally lined curtains.
The next stage is to attach the cotton heavy bump interlining to your main fabric.
You'll have to find a big space to spread your fabric out.
You want to lay the main fabric with the wrong side of it facing up.
You're going to work from the top of your curtain, down.
Because the cotton bump inter-lining is very thick
You can't have it folded over on itself
so we need to position it in from the edge of the main fabric.
It has to be 10 centimetres down from the top edge of your main fabric
and five centimeters in from the side edge.
Then you have to pin it in place.
Continue pinning both edges and the top edge of tour cotton bump to your main fabric.
You'll notice at the bottom of the curtain
There's a twenty centimeter gap
between the bottom edge of the main fabric
and the bottom edge of the cotton bump. This is to allow for the hem.
The next stage will be to hand sew this in place and then remove the pins.
The first method of hand stitching
will be to tack the cotton bump interlining along the top edge.
I'm going to use a contracting colorof thread for this
because it makes easier to remove it at a later stage.
Take a stitch on the spot to secure the thread
You then move along
the top edge of the interlining
taking small enough stitches to hold it securely
big enough that will be easy to remove later.
Along the side edges of the cotton bump inter-lining
we'll attach it to your main fabric using a catch stitch.
That that'll mean that the stitching won't be visible
from the outside of your curtains. First of all you have to secure your thread
by doing three stitches right on the spot.
This is to ensure your thread is anchored
before you start attaching the inter-lining to the main fabric.
You always work from left to right
but your needle will be pointing toward your left hand side.
If you're left-handed you may find the easier to reverse this.
First take a stitch on the inter-lining
and then move forward slightly
catching just a couple of threads from the main fabric.
Continue this catch stitch along both of the side edges of the curtain.
Now that you've got the cotton bump inter-lining
hand sewn in place, join me in Part Three
where we will hem the curtains.