I know you've all been there - purchased drapes (probably on sale) and you loved them so much you just HAD TO HAVE THEM and they are either not returnable or you will just make do. But you get them up and you think . . . What have I done? . . . they look horrible . . . and I don't know what to do to fix them.
Well that happened . . . not to me but to my niece and her fiancee who just moved into their first home together. She purchased eight (yes I said 8) grommet panels to put in the living room and dining room. They have 9 foot ceiling height and the drapes were only 84 inches. That made them approximately 20 inches too short (and for those of you who only understand metric you can do the math - I only work in imperial)!
So being the good mother that she is, my sister (remember it's my niece) and niece went out and purchased a contrasting fabric to lengthen the drapery panels.
Long story short . . . they thought the lengthening should go on the bottom - I thought it would look unbalanced and suggested the panel should be somewhere around 1/3 from the top, and the window mullion is how we decided where it should be. We also decided I should do the sewing because . . . well because I offered . . . and, my sister just let me offer . . . and I got to work.
I measured 21 inches down, cut the panels (21 inches so that there was a 1/2 inch seam top and bottom); opened up the "hem" on either side just enough so I could insert the panel; straight stitched the panels in and then serged all seams; straight stitched the side hems back up and pressed everything into place.
Here is the final result:
Before
After Dining Room
After Living Room
SO fun and both niece and fiancee are super happy with the results.
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