You can save a ton of money and get something custom made that look easy how it is to make a fabric covered pelmet to fit over your curtains. Your friends and family will not believe you made it yourself .
Tools you will need to make your pelmet
1. Staple gun
2. scissors
3. The tape measure
4. Wood saw
5. Long straight edge (marking lines on fabric)
The next thing is the stuff to make it out of. I suspect the most people will have a few of these already.
Materials to make your pelmet
1. 1/4 inch plywood (sheet of)
2. 1/4 inch staples for your staple gun
3. Curtain lining fabric for the back
4. Curtain fabric of your choice for front of pelmet
5. 8 oz sheet fiber wadding (Gives pelmet softer look)
6. Velcro tape (both sides soft and hard)
7. A4 sheets of thin cardboard (very thick paper will do)
8. Can of spray glue (stuff you stick carpets down with)
9. Almost forgot a timber board 6 inches X 1 inches and as long as your pelmet.
I hope you agree with me not an overwhelming list of expensive items on any of the above lists. Do not panic I will keep it really simple.
Putting your new pelmet together
1. Decide how wide and how deep you want your pelmet to be. Then get the local timber merchant to cut your 1/4 inch plywood board to right size. They need to be 12 inches deep again and 6 inches wide.
2. Now you join the return bits to each end. Do this for both long board.
Then place the sheet of the size of your pelmet board including the end returns. Then place the sheet wadding and press down.
4. Next step is to cover 4 inches wider and longer than you bits (use you straight edge to mark pencil lines). Then lay fabric face down onto the your Now you your palmet board wadding side down onto your curtain fabric leaving 2 inches showing all the way around. Pulling fabric under a little tension as you go.
5. The next step is to cover the back of you palmet in curtain lining fabric to make it all neat. Now you need to cut your thin card into strips inches wider and longer than the pelmet board. 2 inches wide and fold in half making them 1 inch wide.
You need to open the bottom of your table with your backing facing down on the table with your backing up. The card board strips under the lining fabric a nice sharp edge to the bottom of the lining fabric while holding it in place at the same time.
Next step is to fold in the ends of the curtain lining so they finish Just fold in and press down with you hand for now. Now for the top of the pelmet you need to trim the lining fabric so it finishes a 1/4 inch down from the top. Then take your soft strip of Velcro tape and staple down at the very top of your new pelmet. This locks in the lining fabric at the same time.
6. This is a simple timber board 6 inches X 1 inch by as long as you pelmet. You need to now staple the hard strip of Velcro onto the 1 inch edge including around the ends of the board.
That present the soft Velcro on the back of your hard Velcro on the back of your hard Velcro on the top board and press. That & # 39; s it All made and fitted told you it is was. Simple. So take your time and enjoy making something really special.
