In this section you will find some basic sewing and window treatment information.
Basic techniques covers inserting a zip, mitring a corner, adding weights to curtains and covering buttons.
Make your own bias binding and piping which can emphasise a seam or edge and strengthen it.
Curtain Headings define how your curtains drape. Here you will find a variety of the more popular including tapes and cased.
Measuring up for your window treatment is probably the first step you will need to take and here we have described how best to do it. To work out how much fabric you will need then use our fabric estimator.
Seam techniques describes how to sew the most popular seams and includes flatfell, french, flat and gathering. Matching fabric explains how to join widths of patterned fabric together.
The glossary explains some common sewing terms and where possible we have included the alternative words used by our American friends. If you know of any others please let us know.
Throughout this guide various stitches are used and in this section each is described in detail with illustrations.