Hi all, my name is Lena and I have just joined your group. I live in Colchester and my hobbies are cooking, reading, sewing and training for my third London MoonWalk in May. Very hard work, but SO addictive and all for a very good cause too (breast cancer care/research).
I haven't been so active with the sewing machine in the past few years, but have now decided to get back into the swing of things by making lots of curtains for my house which is in the throes of major, and long overdue, redecorating. We first moved here 15 years ago - a listed Georgian building in dire need of some TLC. We had builders here for 3 years non-stop(!), which was enough to send anybody totally doolally, but finally, after lots of dirt and disruption, it became our family home for myself, my husband and our two daughters. The girls have now grown and moved out - one to Uni and the other living in central London to be near her job - and the house now needs a complete overhaul in order to update the decor to suit a couple of empty nesters who no longer have to consider messy daughters!
I really feel quite rusty and seem to have lost a little confidence with the scissors these days, but hopefully it'll be just like riding a bike (or so they say!).
My first question to all you dedicated needle-people concerns interlining for silk fabric. I am making interlined curtains with a face fabric of real silk, but am not sure which weight of interlining to use. My window has a long drop of 3 metres and each curtain has 3.5 widths of fabric. The window is a south facing bay with sashes that have almost floor to ceiling glass, and whilst this is gorgeous in the summer, it is really draughty in the winter. Unfortunately, as the house is Listed, double glazing is out of the question.
Obviously, from a heat saving point of view the heaviest weight of cotton/polyester bump interlining (410g per sq.metre) from Edmund Bell would be perfect, but do you think that will that look too heavy and out of synch with a real silk fabric? Should I drop down to the next option of 390g or maybe even as low as 285g per sq.m?
Also what is the general opinion of the differences between a cotton rich bump and a synthetic interlining of the same or similar weight? Do they both have the same thermal qualities, or is the difference simply down to ease of use and less mess from the synthetic than the cotton.
Well I look forward to hearing from some of you members and hope there is somebody who can help me with my query.
Just off to start dinner, so bye for now!
Lena
I haven't been so active with the sewing machine in the past few years, but have now decided to get back into the swing of things by making lots of curtains for my house which is in the throes of major, and long overdue, redecorating. We first moved here 15 years ago - a listed Georgian building in dire need of some TLC. We had builders here for 3 years non-stop(!), which was enough to send anybody totally doolally, but finally, after lots of dirt and disruption, it became our family home for myself, my husband and our two daughters. The girls have now grown and moved out - one to Uni and the other living in central London to be near her job - and the house now needs a complete overhaul in order to update the decor to suit a couple of empty nesters who no longer have to consider messy daughters!
I really feel quite rusty and seem to have lost a little confidence with the scissors these days, but hopefully it'll be just like riding a bike (or so they say!).
My first question to all you dedicated needle-people concerns interlining for silk fabric. I am making interlined curtains with a face fabric of real silk, but am not sure which weight of interlining to use. My window has a long drop of 3 metres and each curtain has 3.5 widths of fabric. The window is a south facing bay with sashes that have almost floor to ceiling glass, and whilst this is gorgeous in the summer, it is really draughty in the winter. Unfortunately, as the house is Listed, double glazing is out of the question.
Obviously, from a heat saving point of view the heaviest weight of cotton/polyester bump interlining (410g per sq.metre) from Edmund Bell would be perfect, but do you think that will that look too heavy and out of synch with a real silk fabric? Should I drop down to the next option of 390g or maybe even as low as 285g per sq.m?
Also what is the general opinion of the differences between a cotton rich bump and a synthetic interlining of the same or similar weight? Do they both have the same thermal qualities, or is the difference simply down to ease of use and less mess from the synthetic than the cotton.
Well I look forward to hearing from some of you members and hope there is somebody who can help me with my query.
Just off to start dinner, so bye for now!
Lena
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