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Hi all,
I have been asked to change the heading on a pair of full length curtains; the customer would like them changed from pencil pleat to double pleat. They are only a few months old and she loves the fabric but wanted pinch pleats, yet the curtain maker made them pencil pleat (why?!) so she has never been happy with them (and doesn't want to return to the original curtain maker.)
There is plenty of fabric in the curtains so there is enough to pleat, my only concern is that there won't be sufficient fabric to turn over at the top to insert the buckram. I have been thinking of adding on a strip of stiff lining (the kind I normally use for Romans) to the top of the curtains for a turnover and sandwich the buckram between that and the face fabric, then slip stitching the current lining over that. I know that this is not an idea solution but the woman is very keen for me to do something to improve these. I have explained that this will require some additions and that the headings won't look too great from the back and she is totally happy with that so long as the curtains look better from the front.
Just wondered if anyone had any thoughts about this? I'm sure some of you might say "don't touch this job with a bargepole" but I would like to help this woman as she hasn't had the best service from the other curtain maker. I can't think why the method I'm thinking of won't work but perhaps there is a good reason why it won't, or some of you might have better ideas!
Thanks, Sue
I have been asked to change the heading on a pair of full length curtains; the customer would like them changed from pencil pleat to double pleat. They are only a few months old and she loves the fabric but wanted pinch pleats, yet the curtain maker made them pencil pleat (why?!) so she has never been happy with them (and doesn't want to return to the original curtain maker.)
There is plenty of fabric in the curtains so there is enough to pleat, my only concern is that there won't be sufficient fabric to turn over at the top to insert the buckram. I have been thinking of adding on a strip of stiff lining (the kind I normally use for Romans) to the top of the curtains for a turnover and sandwich the buckram between that and the face fabric, then slip stitching the current lining over that. I know that this is not an idea solution but the woman is very keen for me to do something to improve these. I have explained that this will require some additions and that the headings won't look too great from the back and she is totally happy with that so long as the curtains look better from the front.
Just wondered if anyone had any thoughts about this? I'm sure some of you might say "don't touch this job with a bargepole" but I would like to help this woman as she hasn't had the best service from the other curtain maker. I can't think why the method I'm thinking of won't work but perhaps there is a good reason why it won't, or some of you might have better ideas!
Thanks, Sue
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