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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t mean to be snarky. I genuinely don’t understand… on a single curtain, three sides are simply a straight line. How long does it take to sew a 51” pinch pleat on the one side?

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There are three layers in the drapes. Face, lining, and interlining. The fabrics aren’t attached at the bottom, so you have to hem them. If it’s more than one width, you also have to pattern match and join the face fabric. The interlining doesn’t have to be hemmed because it’s only attached at the top and then gets sandwiched in. You might have to do something to stabilize the face fabric if it’s really droopy, too. And add weights.

The side seams are tricky because you don’t want a row of stitches on the front of the fabric. So you do a blind hem (forgive me because I’m sure there’s more specific terminology) either by hand or with a special machine foot. It’s not rocket science, but it’s tricky and time consuming.

Then at the top, you do a big fat hem with a strip of buckram inside. This is where my little sewing machine gave up and quit, and I also had the wrong needles and tensioning. I mean, I learned to sew in MoCo county home ec class.

I did the pleats by hand with increasing fatigue and you can really tell. I also spend like an hour figuring out the pleat math. [/quote]

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