How to Make Curtains

If you have an hour or two before your guests arrive, you can whip up a new window treatment for your kitchen, bathroom or guest room. With simple plans and clear, easy instructions, you'll have a colorful new valance, no-sew curtain panels or grommeted curtains to brighten your room.

If you can wield a glue gun or a stapler, you can create no-sew valances that are made with upcycled thrift-store finds. Use a gathered mini-skirt to make colorful kitchen curtains or collect vintage hankies to form a lacy and delicate valance.

Use your sewing skills to repurpose a drop cloth into lovely natural-fiber curtains. Stencil them to play up the accent colors in your room, or add a band of decorator fabric to give them extra style.

Use ribbon to create tab curtains or add a fashionable border of ribbons to frame ready-made curtain panels. Tiebacks can really finish off your drapes, and there are loads of ideas to create custom tiebacks that give your room a designer look.

Suggested Fabrics: Cotton, duck, canvas, linen, lace, voile, homespun, upcycled fabrics, tablecloths.

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Window Treatment Patterns - Whether you sew like a pro or can't sew a stitch, you'll find window treatments to fit your style and budget when you check out this collection of colorful and innovative designs for curtain patterns, drapes, valances, shades and more.

Valance Tutorial

Valance Tutorial

Reversible Window Valance Pattern

How to Make Curtains

How to Make Curtains

DIY NO SEW ROLLED WINDOW VALANCE

ROLLED WINDOW VALANCE

How to Make Curtains

How to Make Curtains

Easy Tricks for Sewing Lined Drapes Like a Pro

Easy Tricks for Sewing Lined Drapes

DIY Sewing Room Glam Up Series – Closet Door Drapes and Homemade Curtain Rods

Closet Door Drapes

Smocked Drop Cloth Curtains

Smocked Drop Cloth Curtains

Family Room Window Treatments (with a Lined Curtain Panel Tutorial)

Window Treatments

No Sew Grommet Drapes

No Sew Grommet Drapes

curtain patterns

curtain patterns

DIY Drapes and Valance from Sheets

Drapes and Valance from Sheets

Striped Curtains in the Office

Striped Curtains in the Office

Inspired Draperies Anthropologie Complete!

Inspired Draperies

Stenciled Drop Cloth Curtains

Stenciled Drop Cloth Curtains

Horizontal Stripe Drapes - Tutorial!

Horizontal Stripe Drapes

Confetti Drapes Tutorial

Confetti Drapes Tutorial

Pennant Valance and Drape Tutorial

Pennant Valance and Drapes

Stenciled Curtain How to Make Curtains

Stenciled - How to Make Curtains

RIBBON-TOP CURTAIN PATTERN

RIBBON-TOP CURTAIN PATTERN

Free Table Runner Valance Tutorial!

Free Table Runner Valance Tutorial

TUTORIAL FOR CUSTOM VALANCE WITH MULTIPLE VARIATIONS

Stylish Baby Nursery: Flowery Curtains & Striped Valance

Flowery Curtains & Striped Valance

Retro How to Make Curtains

Retro - How to Make Curtains

Tab-Top Butterfly Curtain Patterns

Tab-Top Butterfly Curtain Patterns

Fresh Linens: Apple Green Panel Curtain Patterns

Apple Green Panel Curtain Patterns

A Romantic Bedroom Retreat with Rowan & FreeSpirit Fabrics: Layered Bed Curtain Backdrop with Velvet Valance

Layered Bed Curtain Backdrop

Anthropologie Smoldering Hues Shower Curtain-TUTORIAL ette

Shower Curtain-

Bedroom Valance Tutorial

Bedroom Valance Tutorial

TUTORIAL: NON-COMMITTAL CURTAINS FROM BED SHEETS.

CURTAINS FROM BED SHEETS.

PB Inspired Smocked Drapes

PB Inspired Smocked Drapes

Tutorial: Rod Pocket Curtains with Liner

Rod Pocket Curtains with Liner

{DIY} Panels with Grommets

{DIY} Panels with Grommets

Michael Miller Fabrics' Citron-Gray Nursery: Panel Curtains with Grommets

Panel Curtains with Grommets

improv home: Marimekko on a budget

Marimekko on a budget

How to Make Easy Curtains

How to Make Easy Curtains

I'm Having A Sew Sew Saturday...Curtain Redo

Easy Lined Curtains from a Duvet Cover...Just Two Lines of Sewing

Lined Curtains from a Duvet Cover

Tuesday's Tute: A Princess Room Pt. 4: Curtains

A Princess Room

Tool Time Tuesday...Dust Ruffle Into Dorm Curtains

.Dust Ruffle Into Dorm Curtains

Tool Time Tuesday...Doorway Theater

Doorway Theater

Tab-Top Curtain Tutorial

Tab-Top Curtain Tutorial

Make Ruffled Curtains - Pattern

Make Ruffled Curtains - Pattern

How To Make Lined Drapes...Picture Tutorial

How To Make Lined Drapes

Tool Time Tuesday...Window Valance Tutorial

Window Valance Tutorial

How to Make Pocket Top Curtains

How to Make Pocket Top Curtains

Burlap Roller Shades ~ All About Burlap Blog Hop

Burlap Roller Shades

How to Turn Tab Top Curtains to Back Tab Curtains...

Tab Top Curtains to Back Tab

Duvet to Window Panels

Duvet to Window Panels

Pinterest Inspired – Fabric Fuse No Sew Curtains

Fabric Fuse No Sew Curtains

Box Pleat Valance

Box Pleat Valance

Fixed Flat Fold Roman Shades

Fixed Flat Fold Roman Shades

How To Sew Palm Beach Café Curtains

Sew Palm Beach Café Curtains

Quick and easy pleated window valance

easy pleated window valance

Make it: vintage button kitchen curtains!

vintage button kitchen curtains!

Simple Curtain Pattern

Simple Curtain Pattern

DIY Vintage Bedsheet Fabric Patchwork Curtain

Patchwork Curtain

My easy curtain method tutorial

My easy curtain method tutorial

Decorate My Home, Part 20 – Gathered Top Panel Curtains with Blackout Lining

Gathered Top Panel Curtains

BRIGHT AND CHEERY RUFFLED CURTAINS

RUFFLED CURTAINS

Decorate My Home, Part 10: Gathered Curtains with Ties

Gathered Curtains with Ties