Help with making curtains - advice needed

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I am going to try and make some curtains for my lo bedroom.

I need a really wide material 90 inch wide, I have seen a plain bed material on a website 90 inches wide. Is it okay to use this type of material to make curtains ?

I am going to use a curtain lining and put a blackout lining on curtain - just wondered if anyone has used bed material for make curtains with ??

Could I use this for curtains as well ?

Cotton Fabrics
NEW PLAIN POLYCOTTON 90 inch

This fabric is made of 50% Cotton and 50% Polyester.With a Width of 90 inches it has many Uses.

it might hang oddly. i would use proper curtain material tbh. if you need a wider width you just sew 2 widths together.

how wide is the window?

IME you can use pretty much anything to make curatins. In the past I've used throws from Ikea, and I'm about to start another project using duvet covers. So I'm sure the material you have found will be fine.

Do remember that if you can't find material wide enough for the window, you can join strips of material together to make the necessary width e.g. if you need 90" wide, but you chosen material is only 45" wide you can cut two pieces the necessary length and then sew them together. You will probably have to do this for the lining as you may find it hard to source 90" wide lining material.

Have fun.

really piprabbit? i imagined it would look all flimsy and creased.

wonder where the op with her unfeasibly wide windows went?

105 inch wide - smallest I can have. I want to have 2x time the width. I am not brilliant at sewing so thought if I could get 90 inch wide material then I would be doing minimum sewing. Thanks for the advice.

As long as the fabric is nicely ironed when it goes up I've found it stays uncreased - the weight of the lining helps with the drape of the curtains and blocks the light coming through lightweight fabrics.

But yes - the effect is different from a fuller/heavier curtain fabric.

check Harry Corry at the mo.
Great sale. I got a lovely pair yersterday 90 inches wide, 72 inches long down from £70 to £12.99