Hi everyone
Just wanted to ask- from your experience - when making floor lenght curtains, do you make them the precise heading to floor measurement, or do you add on a bit for tolerance?
I've just been making some very large curtains for a client 2.4 m wide x 2.2 m drop - when I hind=g the curtains they were about 1 cm too short, even though the length was exactly right when I measured them lying down on my work table. At the edges they were even worse - about 2 cm off the floor!
I checked the pole + floor - all were level. Luckily I managed to adjust the hooks, so the clent was happy in the end.
I just really want to know what I'm doing wrong! Could the curtain be 'jumping up' more at the edges - perhaps due to the extra thickness of fabric ? I press the lining + main fabric seams into the edge.
Also, I was wondering what other people do regarding pressing seams - can pressing cause shrinkage?
Please help!!!!
Paula
Just wanted to ask- from your experience - when making floor lenght curtains, do you make them the precise heading to floor measurement, or do you add on a bit for tolerance?
I've just been making some very large curtains for a client 2.4 m wide x 2.2 m drop - when I hind=g the curtains they were about 1 cm too short, even though the length was exactly right when I measured them lying down on my work table. At the edges they were even worse - about 2 cm off the floor!

I just really want to know what I'm doing wrong! Could the curtain be 'jumping up' more at the edges - perhaps due to the extra thickness of fabric ? I press the lining + main fabric seams into the edge.
Also, I was wondering what other people do regarding pressing seams - can pressing cause shrinkage?
Please help!!!!

Paula
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