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[quote=Anonymous]Hi, OP.  I was a novice-intermediate sewer, and made curtains for a few rooms in our new house, including grommet curtains for my kids' rooms.  Like you, I made the curtains instead of getting ikea or other cheap ones because I wanted to pick the fabric.

For the kids rooms, I sewed in blackout liner as well.  I bought that fabric at joanns.

Look up a few tutorials online- I don't have handy the ones I used.  Definitely be as careful as possible during the measuring and cutting phase.  The hardest part for me was keeping the fabrics from puckering as I was sewing the long seams along the side.  I just tried to iron and pin very, very carefully and go very, very slowly.  I found that it was easiest to wwork with straight repeating patterns like you have, because you can use the pattern as a reference point.

The grommets for my kids' curtains were easy, if you're ok with plastic ones.  They sell them on amazon.  The packages come with a pattern to trace a circle on the fabric.  Then you cut on that line, and snap the two halves of the grommet together.  [/quote]

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