Quilting weight cotton for curtains?

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Hi, I'm looking to make some curtains for our nursery and have found some lovely fabrics to use but they are all quilting weight. Can I use this for curtains, will they hang OK?

If it makes a difference - I want to line them, probably in blackout fabric, and want them to be either eyelet or tab top. It would be my first try at making curtains (although have mum on hand who has made lots!) but I have quite a lot of sewing experience, and the window isn't huge, so I'm hoping I'll manage...

I've looked at decor weight fabric but there just isn't such a range available :-(

You could make them hang OK if you interlined them and add weights in the hem. It isn't ideal though.

There is MASSES of curtain fabric available - thousands and thousands of designs. Are none of them suitable?

I know I'm being a bit fussy, it is PFB after all... I want suitable for a baby's room but not too childish... and the room is already being painted a light spring green so I'd like something with a bit of the same (ish) colour in. Would quite like a woodland-y type theme and my ultimate perfect fabric would have some badgers in there too (!). This is the fabric I'd really like. But I am a bit confused because the weight of that is 200gsm and some other sites have 'decor weight' fabrics at only 240gsm - surely that can't make much difference? (EG this which I also like is 224gsm but says it's suitable for curtains. To be fair there's tons of choice on that site - I just haven't had time to sit down and go through all the hundreds of pages!!)

If anyone has any good sites to point me to, please let me know!

I can't see that it would be a problem, but it would be best to line them. Wash the fabric first in case of shrinkage. You could line them in a contrast fabric - that would look pretty. You can buy ready made blackout from Dunelm for about a tenner.

Or you cany buy blackout and interlining by the meter from Terrys' fabrics link here

I've done it before. It does work proving you line them with a blackout fabric or other heavy lining. The linings need to be sewn in to get the weight to hang nicely. Just take your time with it and spend ages lining everything up. Quilting cotton is less forgiving than heavier weights.

Thanks a lot all, very helpful!