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I have been out to measure up for some curtains today and the customer has requested triple pleats for a track. That is not the problem (although I am not keen on triple pleats on tracks!). The problem is that they have a half bay window and have had a track put up and the centre of the track is in the centre of the main window. This means that one curtain will be wider than the other.
I have been calculating the pleat & space ratios and it is proving quite difficult as the finished widths are different so the space sizes would be different. I have managed to work out something so that the spaces are 12.75cm on the small curtain and 12.5 on the large curtain but I still end up with the larger curtain slightly too wide.
The fabric is plain and is 140cm wide. The finished width on one curtain is 130cm and the other is 173cm. The track has an overlap arm but is not corded.
At the moment, on the first curtain I have 9 spaces of 12.75cm and 10 pleats of 13.7cm and overlap and return totaling 15.25cm.
On the 2nd curtain I have worked out 13 spaces at 12.5cm and 14 pleats at 13.7cm (as this needs to be the same as curtain 1) and overlap and returns at 15.25cm. This means that I have had to extend the finished width of the curtain by 4.75 cm and if I increased the spaces to 12.75cm to match the first curtain then it would be even wider.
Does it sound like it would be ok to make them like this?
Has anyone else had a similar experience and/or can offer any advice?
Thanks.
Sewmad
P.s - I forgot to measure the size of the overlap arm. Are these generally a standard size or will i need to go back and measure?
I have been out to measure up for some curtains today and the customer has requested triple pleats for a track. That is not the problem (although I am not keen on triple pleats on tracks!). The problem is that they have a half bay window and have had a track put up and the centre of the track is in the centre of the main window. This means that one curtain will be wider than the other.
I have been calculating the pleat & space ratios and it is proving quite difficult as the finished widths are different so the space sizes would be different. I have managed to work out something so that the spaces are 12.75cm on the small curtain and 12.5 on the large curtain but I still end up with the larger curtain slightly too wide.
The fabric is plain and is 140cm wide. The finished width on one curtain is 130cm and the other is 173cm. The track has an overlap arm but is not corded.
At the moment, on the first curtain I have 9 spaces of 12.75cm and 10 pleats of 13.7cm and overlap and return totaling 15.25cm.
On the 2nd curtain I have worked out 13 spaces at 12.5cm and 14 pleats at 13.7cm (as this needs to be the same as curtain 1) and overlap and returns at 15.25cm. This means that I have had to extend the finished width of the curtain by 4.75 cm and if I increased the spaces to 12.75cm to match the first curtain then it would be even wider.
Does it sound like it would be ok to make them like this?
Has anyone else had a similar experience and/or can offer any advice?
Thanks.
Sewmad
P.s - I forgot to measure the size of the overlap arm. Are these generally a standard size or will i need to go back and measure?
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