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It can be really difficult to keep your home warm in winter
It can also be really expensive as well. One way to keep the drafts out
is by making thermally lined curtains.
There are many different ways to make curtains
but the thermally lined curtains I'm going to show you how to make
have got three separate layers to them. So just like you would layer up
if you're going out for a walk on a cold day, the layers of these curtains
are going to help to keep the heat in your home.
The top layer of fabric is the one that you see in your curtains
and I've chosen this one from Laura Ashley.
The middle layer is called interlining and this is a heavy cotton bump.
It gets sandwiched between your outer fabric and backing fabric
which is called softback lining.
On one side it looks like normal fabric
and on the other side it's got a fleecy texture.
For these curtains, we're going to make each curtain
the same width as the whole curtain pole.
When you know what you're finished curtain size will be,
the following rules all apply to those measurements.
For your main outer fabric you have to cut it
23 centimeters longer than your finished curtain
and 10 centimetres wider. That's to allow for the hem and the seam at the side.
For the middle layer of fabric,
that heavy cotton bump, you have to cut the fabric
the same width as your finished curtain but seven centimetres shorter.
For your backing fabric which is the soft back lining
you have to cut it twelve and a half centimeters longer
than your finished curtain
but four centimetres narrower
and the reason that we make the lining smaller
is so that we don't see them once your curtains are hanging up.
Make a small cut at the side of the fabric
grab one of the threads and then give it a pull.
Gently gather up the fabric to pull the thread along
and that's going to give you a a line that you can cut along.
that is going to be straight.
Because my curtain
is wider than the width of the fabric
I'm having to join two lengths of fabric together.
This is the backing lining here, as you can see it looks like normal fabric on one side
and that's the side that we'll see. This fleecy stuff
will be on the inside of the curtain. We've got to pin the fabric together
just along the one edge that you're going to sew.
This process will have to be repeated for the inter-lining
that heavy cotton bump and the outer fabric as well.
Once you've pinned your drops of fabric together
you need to sew them on the sewing machine with a 1.5 cm seam allowance.
You have to repeat that for all three layers of fabric.
Now that you have all your layers of fabric cut to the correct length and width,
join me in part two where we start putting these layers together.