Any interior of the apartment or the house needs a beautifully designed window openings. The curtains can give the room an additional residential comfort, make it a stylish and protect tenants from sunlight and prying eyes of passers-by. However, the appearance of the window depends not only on the choice of design or texture of the fabric, but also on careful design and hanging.
In the modern world it is impossible to imagine a cozy apartment without curtains covering the windows.
Due to the fact that in every living space height and width of the window openings is different, the web is adjusted for its parameters. Tulle trimmed in height and width. For this purpose, pre-post curtain onto the ledge until it droop, then, leaving the seam allowance of about 2-3 cm, are cut according to measurements of the window.
Curtains give beauty, allowing hide some flaws walls, panels or window frames.
Note! Tulle trimming the width, it should be borne in mind that the curtain in the end result will lie waves, i.e. width of the window to be multiplied by 2 times.
Before the main task of hanging curtains, you should know how to hem tulle yourself. To do this, line the edge of the fabric, due to the large volume of tulle and its length work requires accuracy and certain knowledge.
With the execution of this work to handle even a novice with no sewing education!
Tulle is a web of synthetic fibers, which slide on the surface. To resolve this problem, enclose a curtain fabric made of natural fibers.
Important! Hem each edge individually, without folding the fabric several times.
Content
- 1 How exactly cut tulle with their hands
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2 How to sew tulle
- 2.1 stages of work
- 3 Tulle with weighting: how to shorten the process and fabric
- 4 Tulle Net: how to cut and sew fabric
- 5 How to hem tulle hand, without machines
- 6 VIDEO: How to hem tulle organza or nylon.
- 7 VIDEO: Master class on hemming long tulle.
How exactly cut tulle with their hands
From this stage of the work depends on the beauty and accuracy of edge curtains. Tools you'll need:
- scissors;
- line;
- pencil;
- Tailor chalk.
If you have a sewing machine at home, and even let the most common or the Soviet, then perform any kind of sewing, and even a novice and inexperienced mistress.
There are several ways how to precisely cut the tulle with his own hands:
- Removing cross-thread;
- cuts the tissue.
The first method is more simple and is very popular. The idea is that the canvas is pulled out of the transverse thread and it should be cut off the canvas.
For the treatment of tulle fabric used a simple trick: the right place to hook gently and pulled the thin thread of the fabric.
- First, carefully laid tissue sheet.
- On the edge of tulle make a small incision.
- From the resulting notch pulled thread.
- By leaving traces of the filament with tailoring with sharp scissors cut the fabric.
After this, the resulting "track" the matter carefully cut with scissors.
With this method, the segment is obtained an accurate and neat.
Important! Produce fabric cut slowly as the fabric in the process may crumble.
To trim the tulle second method should proceed in stages.
- Cloth connect two opposite edges.
- Where the edges have a discrepancy, chalk marks.
- Fold the fabric again, thus it is necessary to avoid any unnecessary formed folds.
- Urge on the edge of the fabric to where the inflection point, and make a mark.
- Unfold the fabric and make the segment of get labels.
Carefully cut off the excess with sharp scissors.
Important! Cloth at the turn did not budge.
This method requires certain skills and dexterity, fit more experienced seamstresses.
Since tulle tends to slide, experienced handy advised to moisten the cloth with water and to steam, and only then start pruning. Another way how to cut tulle without slipping - is applied to the paper web or fabric, natural fibers, and after pruning.
Another convenient way to undercut tulle.
How to sew tulle
After tulle fabric becomes the desired length and width, proceed to his suturing. By this process are no less serious, as carelessness can ruin the fabric. Tulle - this is a very capricious in the material, which requires a certain amount of trepidation. Careless movement and it may appear tightening and small holes.
The most common methods such as tulle hem, are:
- with tape;
- using hemming on a typewriter.
All two are accessible and easier if follow certain algorithms.
The first method is relevant to hem curtains above.
Tape is a dense braid of thread, which function loops for the hooks.
stages of work
- First, the web is stripped.
- From the lower edge of the curtains lay the desired length of the side seams at three points.
Important! Putting aside the long, consider the size of hooks, which will hold the curtain.
- Also take into account the size and tapes, as well as a number of loops, which are planned to hang the finished product. If this is the first row, then is added 1.5 cm, and if the 2nd, then 3cm.
- The upper edge of the web is folded double, given the size of the braid (about 10 cm).
Important! Before working with the tape, it should be to steam.
- The upper edge of braid construction site treated.
- Then proceed to the processing of the lower edge. To do this, turn the product on the face, the lower edge of the webbing buckle 5mm and stitched by the face.
This is done in the case where the fabric of the curtains - this nylon organza, since denser belt It can be twisted in the process line, and press down the fabric by itself, creating unnecessary folds.
- When processing an average seam tape, thread edge from it should pull out and fix. Stitched by middle seam carefully, making sure that the thread does not fall into line.
Sometimes in the middle suture handling, thread constantly sip.
Another well-known method of how to handle the edges of the tulle is the hem edge. At the bottom of the sewing-machine treated curtains, side, and top hem curtains.
This option requires a certain expertise.
Before you start sewing the edges of the curtain on a typewriter, these edge prihvatyvayut originally stripped by hand and iron.
Selected straight stitch where the stitch length is equal to 2-3 mm.
In the process, the fabric is not pulled and do not slip from the foot of the machine.
If the curtain is very thin or mesh, then sutured it with tissue paper.
The lower edge of tulle sewn. in two stages, first folded edge and handle the construction site, and then tuck again and again stitched by.
The finished product is stripped iron.
Tulle with weighting: how to shorten the process and fabric
Many designers in the design of windows are advised to purchase tulle with weighting. It is a cord of dense fibers which are woven metal beads. This design allows the beautiful lie curtains, pulling them down. However, if the length of the curtains do not fit, simply trim the lower it will not work.
Tulle with the weighting agent has a specific processing. Before you shorten the tulle with the weighting agent in length make metering window and then tulle on the upper edge with an allowance for the tape is cut.
Allowance is about 10 cm, also take into account, on which a number will be hung the finished product.
Treat the side edge of the net with weighting more difficult. To begin, cut himself a weighting agent, pushing its place overcast. One edge of the weighting agent a little stretched out. Then cut 6-7 cm and put the whip in place. This process is repeated on the other side.
Important! With each edge webs leave 5-7 cm on the seam.
Each edge is folded once, is treated with a straight stitch, and then folded again and treated as a straight line. Machined edges stripped iron.
The same is doing a on the other side.
Tulle Net: how to cut and sew fabric
Grid - the most common form of tissue, of which sewed curtains. It is very beautiful, light and stylish canvas, but to sew the curtain is not quite simply out of it. Since this material is very soft, thin and rather moody.
The complexity of working with him is that the grid is greatly extends and its hard to see, since it is transparent.
The best way how to trim tulle mesh method is considered pulling thread, as for this type of tissue is the easiest and best way.
Along the bottom edge makes a small incision, and then pulled out of the cut thread, and there are traces of skin, neatly cut off the excess fabric.
Cut the net with the help of the postponement of the line does not work, because the fabric is very slips and stretches.
A good option as the hem tulle mesh in the home is considered processing Moscow seam edge. This requires flizeline tape, which with the help of iron ironed on to the machined edge.
Note! Work is carried out on the reverse side.
With the sewing machine stitching treated smooth edge, stepping 2-3 mm from the belt edge. Then cut off the remnants of tape together with tulle. After re-buckle and stitched by a flat construction site.
The finished product is necessarily stripped.
mesh upper edge of the braid on which a loop for the cornice.
The lower edge of the mesh tulle treated as follows.
- Stripped edge of the curtains.
- Turn it to 2-3 cm and stitched by a flat line.
- Then tuck again and again stitched by a flat line.
- The finished product is stripped iron.
Note! When working with the grid, you should take into account the possibility that the material will fall apart, so better leave allowance of 0.5 -1 cm more.
How to hem tulle hand, without machines
Carefully handle the edge of the curtain and possibly yourself, for this you should know how to cut and sew tulle hand.
For the easiest way you only need a needle, thread and a little sleight of hand.
There are general guidelines:
- before processing the fabric need to post it to violence and dropped;
- Some seamstresses recommend extend tulle before starting work, and then to steam;
- thread in use thin;
- a thread must be identical in composition to the tissue;
- thread is selected in one color with the web;
- are working in a well-lit area;
- at line organza seams proutyuzhivayut;
- before working with iron watch mode, temperature is too high to spoil the thin fabric.
Tulle hem edges manually using the blind stitch, using a double hem.
Double hem used for the treatment of the side edges and bottom. However, to make the bottom of the processing podvorot 5-6 cm, and the side podvorot make 2-3 cm.
If sewing using oblique Bakey, that significantly simplify the process of sewing the fact that before work is stripped of its iron.
Some housewives used edge processing method without sewing.
Treated so only the lower edge of the curtains, i.e. clean length.
You will need duct tape. Tulle fabric to bend to the desired value, the edge of a well stripped iron. The tape is placed between two layers of fabric. After the tape is positioned on the right place, the iron several times to iron surface of the fabric.
Important! This method is only suitable for light fabrics.
Beautifully decorated windows, creates an atmosphere of comfort and beauty, they can not be neglected. But it is not necessary to resort to professional help, is enough to get the material in the desired colors, to make measurements of the window and examine the main stages of work.
Curtains always can be shortened without cutting, to show imagination enough, because this occupation is quite creative and very interesting.
Process or tulle hem edge and can be at home. It is not difficult if you possess basic knowledge and skills, to show diligence and to act carefully. The end result of the work will be doubly enjoyable because the work was done by hand.
If the process approach with full responsibility, that the finished product will last a long time.