Using blackout lining as an interlining creates a smooth finish with blackout right to the edges. But how to do it without creating little pinprick light holes all over it. I have created a video tutorial in the Trade Pro Tier of my Patreon channel so if you're in the trade and want to learn more advanced curtain making techniques go to www.patreon.com/WindmillCurtainRoom for more info.

When blackout lining is too bulky or unwieldy for the fabric you're using, sometimes using blackout lining to interline the curtains instead of a traditional fluffy domette or bump is the answer but how do you stop creating little holes in the blackout that let light through. The full trade only tutorial demonstrated how using a sneaky method of seaming the blackout lining.
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part 2 of 4 of little snippets of an hour long video showing the making of an interlined apex curtain with pinch pleats.

Making Blackout Lined Pinch Pleat Apex Curtains

Filmed over a couple of days this video shows the complexities of making curtains for apex, angled or sloped windows. The curtains were made from a plain linen effect fabric and were blackout lined which adds an extra complication as pinning creates pin holes that light can show through. At the top are double pinch pleats to create a classic neat finish.

Most of the video is timelapse without any instruction or commentary. A full tutorial video will be available for trade members only on my Patreon channel.

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00.00 - Preparing paper pattern
00.32 - Hand sewing RH side hem
01.45 - Locking in LHS
02.32 - Adding daisy chains in hem
03.51 - Hand sewing LH side hem & creating weighted mitre
13.39 - Measuring the curtain drop
17.00 - Cutting angle to top of curtain and adding buckram
25.25 - Hand sewing lining to heading
32.01 - Folding in pinch pleats
33.28 - Machine sewing pleats
35.26 - Creasing and creating double pich pleats
36.48 - Machine sewing bottom of pinch pleats
37.39 - Checking length and angle of finished heading & ironing spaces
52.26 - Creating overlap flap
51.10 - Finished curtains

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A quick pro tip and an easy way to remove stubborn pressure marks from velvet and pile fabrics or other fabrics with a nap. Crush and pressure marks are often caused by heavy handling or from storing the fabric end on on a roll. Also, as in this case, sometimes the roll can break in transit which can create wrinkling all the way down the length of the piece and heavy marking of the velvet.

This easy tip is just one of many ways to realign the pile on velvet so that the marks disappear. I hope this helps but please just comment below if you have any questions or comments.

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An instructional video on how to alter a standard pattern and add a contrast or decorative edging to the neck, sleeve and pocket edges to medical scrubs. This is a great way to use up small amounts of lovely fabrics or to make otherwise plain scrubs more decorative for community situations like care homes, GP surgeries and private medical facilities.

Full start to finish making process of custom made hand sewn lined curtains with unusually short buckram headed double pinch pleats. Made in the most beautiful cotton silk effect mustard colour velvet fabric and cotton sateen linings.

See the full process including me discussing the fabric itself and the direction of the velvet pile, potential faults in the piece of fabric, the cutting process, machining the widths, hand sewing the linings in place including adding weights and inserting the buckram right through to making the double French pleats.

🕑 TIMESTAMPS 🕑

00:11 - Unboxing the velvet
03:11 - Fabric fault discovery
05:25 - Pile direction
07:02 - Cutting the velvet
08:18 - Machine joining the velvet widths
08:52 - Pressing the velvet seams open
09:15 - Measuring and pinning the double hem & adding lead penny weights
09:44 - Turning side hem, mitred corner and adding weight and hand sewing mitre
10:56 - Hand herringbone stitching double velvet hem
12:15 - Measuring and cutting linings
12:47 - Machine seaming & hemming lining widths
14:02 - Pressing lining hems & seams
14:25 - Turning velvet side hems & locking in linings
15:00 - Adding bar tacks to hem
15:08 - Turning & slip stitching lining side hems
16:45 - Adding buckram to heading
17:18 - Slip stitching heading closed
18:34 - Calculating pleat spacings and pinning out on heading
18:54 - Machine stitching pleats
19:29 - Folding double pinch pleats
19:40 - Stitching bottom of pinch pleats
21:04 - Close up of finished double pinch pleats
21:19 - Finished curtains hung in situ

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Here I show how I sew velvet and other pile fabrics for curtains and drapery. Practice this method to create beautifully flat seams with no puckering or gather so that your velvet curtains hang flat. This method is one I developed over many years of running a professional curtain making workroom and requires no pins or tacking first. Just take the velvet to your machine and sew. Velvet, corduroy and other napped fabrics can be very tricky to work with as the pile causes seams to creep making sewing a real challenge. this method utilises an industrial sewing machine but may be possible to replicate on a well fixed domestic machine.

🕑 TIMESTAMPS 🕑

00:10 - Comparing methods, the velvet pile, how velvet creeps when sewn, handling, time saving & domestic v industrial sewing machines
02:52 - Sewing velvet at the machine
04:21 - Test seam
04:48 - Method to sew velvet without puckering or creep demonstration
08:08 - Impromptu bobbin refill
09:45 - Sewing a full velvet seam end to end
11:01 - Pressing the seam
12:41 - Showing the full seam on the right side
13:33 - completed double pinch pleat curtains

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Full start to finish film of how to make a pair of huge five width hand finished lined and interlined full length curtains with stuffed and capped cartridge pleat heading. Includes cutting, joining, pressing, inserting linings, hand sewing, measuring, pleating, stuffing and folding. The first part of the video has no music so records the many sounds of fabric being cut, sewn, moved, ironed and well as me foot stepping a million times round the worktable. Faster sections have a music background.
This a long video as the curtains are huge so there's a handy index below to help you locate specific sections if you so wish.

🕑 TIMESTAMPS 🕑

00:08 Unpacking fabric
00:30 Measuring & cutting face fabric
01:35 Trimming selvedges & cutting interlining
02:50 Measuring & cutting lining
03:19 Machine joining & hemming linings
07:38 Machine joining interlinings
10:29 Pattern matching face fabric
13:15 Pressing face fabric seams open
16:20 Laying up and locking in the interlining
18:30 Turning & mitering the hems
23:48 Herringbone stitching the hems in place
26:50 Laying up, locking in & daisychain stitching the lining
29:20 Turning & hand sewing the side hems
30:45 Continuing herringboning face hem & locking in lining
33:58 Turning other side hem & hand sewing
34:35 Measuring drop & adding buckram to heading
35:44 Hand sewing lining to heading
38:55 Turning curtain over and pressing buckram heading
39:08 Calculating & pinning the pleat spacings
39:35 Machine sewing pleats
40:19 Opening out pleats & checking finished width
40:30 Stuffing cartridge pleats with interlining & fabric cap
41:10 Marking and adding pin hooks
41:25 Folding curtain
41:35 Finished cartridge pleats

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Try this easier way to insert pin hooks in curtain and drapery headings without the aid of a pinner. A better way to save your fingers from all that pain.

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Start to finish build of my home garden wooden cabin workroom for my custom curtain and furnishing making business. Also includes garden makeover and the three crazy hounds; Ted, Daisy and Balou.

Timelapse from start to finish of making a huge 8 width Wave headed blackout lined curtain including cutting, joining, hand sewing, adding the tape, counting millions of tape pockets, adding the curtain hooks and folding!

Hyperlapse video making beautiful James Hare yellow silk into interlined and lined inverted pleat headed curtains with a feature self piped and padded leading edge border.
These curtains were featured on display at Kevin Mccleod's Grand Designs Live show on the fabulously talented Oliver Thomas's maximalist room set. The pic at the end shows them in situ with another pair of curtains we made.

Time lapse video showing the making of a scatter cushion using Swaffer fabric with plain Ian Mankin velvet on the back and withTroynorth bobble trim around the edges and mitred and set it flat braid on the back.