How to Make Kitchen Curtains: 9 Quick Steps

Kitchen curtains offer a decorative touch to the over-the-sink picture windows that are typical in many kitchens.

Kitchen window treatments demand unique design concerns due to their location near a potential source of moisture, heat, and flame.

Kitchen curtains are less difficult to make than the more elaborate window treatments used in living areas because of the locational limits on their fabric, length, and bulk.

You don’t have to be a seamstress to make kitchen curtains.

What is curtain?

Curtain is a beautiful piece of cloth that is typically hung in interior design to control how much light enters windows and to keep drafts out of door or window openings.

Usually made of a strong cloth, curtain is intended to fall straight in decorative folds. 

To make kitchen curtains, simply follow these instructions:

1. Choose the window Treatment Type You Desire

When it comes to kitchen window treatments, you have a few options.
Curtains.

These two collected panels frame the window on both the left and right sides, hanging horizontally from top to bottom.
Valances.

A valance is a panel that covers only the upper area of the window in a horizontal direction, leaving the lower portion of the window uncovered.

2. Take a Window Measurement

Take note of the width and length of your window. Measure the distance from the window’s bottom to the vertical center point if you intend to build a privacy tier.

3. Select the Fullness of the Window Curtains for Your Kitchen

The quantity of fabric you need to buy will depend on this. In general, the curtain feels more opulent the fuller it is.

A panel with a fullness of 1 1/2 is considered flat, whereas one with a fullness of 3 is considered lavishly collected.

4. Calculate How Much Fabric You’ll Need

To determine how much fabric you’ll need, use the formulas below.
Add your fullness (1 1/2 to 3) to the window’s width.

For each full-sized panel you want to make, you will need a 4 foot (1.2 m) length of fabric, so if your window is 2 feet (0.6 m), for instance.

A valance and a privacy tier are both full-sized panels, so keep that in mind.
You will need two panels per window if you’re planning to sew curtains; their length will be 1/2 that of a full-sized panel.

Your valance, tier, or curtain design should be at least 2 inches (5 cm) wider and 6 inches (15 cm) longer than necessary to accommodate hems, rod pockets, and seams. Depending on your design and the size of your rod, you may need to change that figure.

5. Select a Material

Kitchen curtains should be useful, so keep that in mind while making them. Any cloth that cannot be cleaned, easily fades, or shrinks should not be used.

A flame-retardant cloth is an excellent idea as well, just in case there is a cooking accident.

6. Create Kitchen Drapes

Outline the dimensions of your panels on the fabric with a fabric marker using a measuring tape and straight edge.

7. Construct the Bottom Hem

Your panel’s lower edge should be pressed when you fold it up by 0.5 inches (1.25 cm), wrong side in.

Keeping in mind the amount you allocated when you cut your panel, fold the clean edge up to the desired hem length, facing the wrong side of the cloth, and press once more.

To keep the hem in place, stitch the top folded edge.

8. Smooth Off the Left and Right Rough Edges

Fold the wrong side in and push the vertical edges that are 0.5 inch (1.25 cm) on each side.

To hide the jagged edge, fold twice and press once more.
To hold the hem in place, sew along the fold’s edge.

9. Make the Compartment for the Rod

Your panel’s upper edge should be folded inward, wrong side in, by 0.5 inches (1.25 cm), and pressed.
Allowing enough space to account for the width of the rod you’ll be using, fold the clean edge under (wrong side in) once more, and press.

Finish the rod pocket by sewing as closely as you can to the folded edge. Your panel will be finished once you’ve completed this step.
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Conclusion

Your valance design has opportunity for creativity. Ideas for valances can be found online. Variations frequently merely affect the shape and call for a new way to cut your pattern.

When measuring hems, use a sewing gauge for more convenience.
If you opt to create privacy levels, be important to specify when designing your design whether you want your tiers to rest on the windowsill or to fall below it.