Original curtains for the kitchen - with your own hands!

The kitchen is a place in the house where the family is most often gathered, in order not only to eat, but also to communicate. For some reason, it is the kitchen that especially has a heart-to-heart conversation, and if it is cozy in it ... And the comfort of any room is able to give the most ordinary curtains. And it's not necessarily for sewing smart curtains to apply to specialized salons, because you can make them yourself. Of course, this can be done on condition that you have a sewing machine and a little imagination, because you can make sewing curtains for yourself with your own hands, and not necessarily have seamstress skills.

For example, kitchen curtains are becoming more popular today in the half-window. They cover the lower part of the window from extraneous views, but do not interfere with the penetration of sunlight through the upper one. And you can make such kitchen curtains with your own hands from ordinary cotton or linen towels. Acquire a thin cornice with a round crossbar that is as long as the width of the window, and attach it to the desired level, based on the length of your future curtains that hardly need to touch the sill. Since the towels already have the treated edges, you only need to make the top, and for this, tilt the edge over the entire width so that the ledge of the eaves freely passes through the resulting hole (kuliska), sweep, and then stitch with a straight stitch. As a decoration, you can use buttons or other accessories that you find fit in style. Thus, make two curtains and thread the cornice through them.

And you can make curtains for the kitchen with your own hands made of chiffon or artificial silk scarves or scarves. If you have a scarf that you do not wear, and if it has large enough dimensions, for example, 0.5x2 or 2.5 meters, you can easily make such decorative lambrequin from it. You just need to measure the width of the window and attach two hooks to the kerchief on the same (better a little more, at least 5 cm from each side) distance from each other. That is, fold the scarf in half and from the middle measure half the width of the window plus 5 cm, and sew a hook there. Do the same with the second half of the future curtain. When you hang such a curtain, the sides of the handkerchief will hang beautifully on the sides.

Of course, to make more complex curtains for the kitchen with your own hands, you will have to look for patterns, but if you strictly follow them, you will find that there is nothing complicated in them. Therefore, decorate such a loved by all the room will be just a pleasure. For the patterns can come in handy remnants of old wallpaper, which probably somewhere lie, rolled up in a roll, and expect their "star time", although not quite the destination. You can also use old newspapers or just buy a roll of newsprint, designed specifically for patterns. Surely such a paper is in stores selling all kinds of accessories for sewing and other needlework.

If you want to sew long curtains for the kitchen with your own hands, so that they lay down beautiful folds, you will have to purchase a fabric specifically for this purpose. Calculate its number is not difficult. The width of the canvas should be equal to the length of the cornice, multiplied by a factor of 2 or 2.5 (the higher the ratio, the more folds you get, but it's better not to get carried away, K2 will be enough). Also add 5cm to the edges. The length of the curtain count, starting from the eaves, and ending with the floor, skirting or any place you want to get a curtain. Also add a few centimeters for processing allowances. For the filing of the bottom, 5cm is enough, and the top binding depends on how the curtain will be attached to the cornice. If this is a regular braid with eyelets, then the width of the tucked edge should be 1cm shorter than it (the braid should completely hide the edge of the curtain from the inside). Also curtains for the kitchen with their own hands can be fastened on the eyelets, on the hinges, on the eyelets, on the kulisque, etc. If your imagination has no boundaries, you can certainly invent your own, exclusive curtains.