Losing confidence? Nevarrr! (Actually, I'm fairly certain that if such things were measurable, you and I would turn out to be precisely equally Good At Sewing, but with different specialities.)
I think you're probably right about the washing - not least, I confess, because it means I don't have to go through the hell that would be washing and drying eleventy billion miles of cloth. I don't think the curtain fabric is coated - it's a straightforward woven design, direction but no nap, mostly cotton as far as I remember - but I could well be wrong.
As for linings, I appear to have acquired from somewhere the belief that a detachable lining is separately hemmed and then hand-tacked to the heading tape and side hems (i.e. not sewn in at the heading), before the pleats are put in. It feels as though the attachment at the heading should be stronger than mere tacking, is the only thing - but then how is it detachable? I suppose tacking might be enough - lining isn't that heavy.
On the other hand, realistically, this is me we're talking about, and I am NEVER going to untack linings, machine-wash linings and have curtains drycleaned, then retack linings. Just. Won't. Happen. If I fool myself into thinking it will, then the curtains will just never get cleaned. So I reckon we're doing anchored, fused, stuck-on-tight, limpet, till-death-do-us-part linings - which I suspect are easier.
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Re: twenty two metres!
Date: 2006-10-23 05:06 pm (UTC)I think you're probably right about the washing - not least, I confess, because it means I don't have to go through the hell that would be washing and drying eleventy billion miles of cloth. I don't think the curtain fabric is coated - it's a straightforward woven design, direction but no nap, mostly cotton as far as I remember - but I could well be wrong.
As for linings, I appear to have acquired from somewhere the belief that a detachable lining is separately hemmed and then hand-tacked to the heading tape and side hems (i.e. not sewn in at the heading), before the pleats are put in. It feels as though the attachment at the heading should be stronger than mere tacking, is the only thing - but then how is it detachable? I suppose tacking might be enough - lining isn't that heavy.
On the other hand, realistically, this is me we're talking about, and I am NEVER going to untack linings, machine-wash linings and have curtains drycleaned, then retack linings. Just. Won't. Happen. If I fool myself into thinking it will, then the curtains will just never get cleaned. So I reckon we're doing anchored, fused, stuck-on-tight, limpet, till-death-do-us-part linings - which I suspect are easier.
Hmmm. Ask yer mum anyway, see what she says.