Need help from a seamstress please!

Floridaboiler · Dec 20, 2010

The local wal mart has the fabric we want to use to make curtains for my son's windows. My MIL has agreed to make them if we send her the fabric. How much do I need? The window is 4 ft by 6ft and the rod is about 4 inches above the window and we want the fabric to hang below by probably 4 inches?
 
Thanks!

airehead · Dec 20, 2010

Closest I can come to a "sewer" is a gutter mind.
 
Gret's wife is a sewer. She knows cloth, yo.

Floridaboiler · Dec 20, 2010

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<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by airehead <a href="/forum/thread/71737/need-help-from-a-seamstress-please#post_1970927"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border-bottom:0px solid;border-left:0px solid;border-top:0px solid;border-right:0px solid;"></a> Closest I can come to a "sewer" is a gutter mind.
 
Gret's wife is a sewer. She knows cloth, yo.
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I realized after I had posted this thread that I had used the wrong word! :-D

gretriever · Dec 20, 2010

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<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by airehead <a href="/forum/thread/71737/need-help-from-a-seamstress-please#post_1970927"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border-right:0px solid;border-top:0px solid;border-left:0px solid;border-bottom:0px solid;"></a> Closest I can come to a "sewer" is a gutter mind.
 
Gret's wife is a sewer. She knows cloth, yo.
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I'll call her, and get back on this...

airehead · Dec 20, 2010

Dude! I didn't think it was the wrong word. I thought sewer was perfectly fine.
 
Plus I enjoyed calling Mrs Gret a sewer. teehee 

 
 
In fact, I just checked:
 
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A medieval servant who supervised the serving of meals. [Middle English, from Anglo-Norman asseour, from asseer, to seat guests, from Latin assidēre, to sit down : ad-, ad- + sedēre, to sit.]
 sew·er3 (sō'ər) <img alt="pronunciation" src="http://content.answcdn.com/main/content/img/pron.gif" style="border:0px solid;vertical-align:middle;"> n. 
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I realized after I had posted this thread that I had used the wrong word! :-D 
 
 
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gretriever · Dec 20, 2010

I'll try this again - these geniuses are telling me to post this when I hit the submit button. <img alt="mad.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/mad.gif" style="width:16px;height:16px;">
 
Length - double the six feet, as you'll want to open the curtain.
 
Height - add eight inches, not four, on each end of that four feet. This is so you can have the rod go through the top, and to have a hem on the bottom.
 
So you're talking 12 feet by 51/2 feet (call it 6). Also, check the width of the material. If it's only, say 24 " wide, you'll have to do some panels.

Floridaboiler · Dec 20, 2010

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<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by gretriever <a href="/forum/thread/71737/need-help-from-a-seamstress-please#post_1970946"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border-bottom:0px solid;border-left:0px solid;border-top:0px solid;border-right:0px solid;"></a> I'll try this again - these geniuses are telling me to post this when I hit the submit button. <img alt="mad.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/mad.gif" style="width:16px;height:16px;">
 
Length - double the six feet, as you'll want to open the curtain.
 
Height - add eight inches, not four, on each end of that four feet. This is so you can have the rod go through the top, and to have a hem on the bottom.
 
So you're talking 12 feet by 51/2 feet (call it 6). Also, check the width of the material. If it's only, say 24 " wide, you'll have to do some panels. 
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Thanks!
Now I have to get to wally world and confirm the width of the fabric.

muzicgrl · Dec 20, 2010

You need to note how wide the fabric is first.
 
And once you do your math always buy an extra yard for a big project like this.

markalan · Dec 20, 2010

most fabric comes on rolls 44/45" wide figure 43 /12" cut width - or wider 52/53" - 57/58" 60: - very rarely narrow goods. any fabric 24" wide usually is folded just to it can be handled easily in a retail setting, or it's a tubular knit (but, that's for the advanced class)
 
 
bottom line, you need to know how big you want the window covering and then know how wide your fabric is. 
 
 
we'll discuss fabric spreading techniques in the next lecture
 
 
p.s. I'm in the gmt business

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