Needlework for the house

Each hostess should have his own tricks that create real "home magic", turning the usual room from several rooms into a warm and cozy nest, where you want to come back again and again. Everyone has or had a grandmother who used every thing to use - a drying onion in old kapron tights, groats and seasonings in used jars, flower pots from cracked dishes ... A familiar picture? Handicraft for the house with their own hands helps not only to save money on expensive decor, but also to master useful skills that will be useful in the future.

Curtains "Sweet Cafe"

Light curtains "Sweet Cafe" is ideal for a small kitchen. They will help create a cozy atmosphere and give a special charm to even the most modest room. Even a novice mistress will be able to make such curtains with her own hands.

Necessary materials:

• the cloth
• sewing thread in the tone of the main fabric
• chalk tailor's or dried soap
• fusing paper
• buttons

Preparation method:

1. Measure the required amount of fabric, based on the width and height of the window. To the resulting segment, add 5 centimeters from the bottom edge and a small allowance for the upper seam (1-2 cm). For the future lining of the upper part of the curtains, a strip of fabric 23 cm thick and equal in length to the common cloth is required.

2. The panel and lining for the upper part must be cut out, trowel each part to the width, if necessary. Make a template from the paper for the notched edge. Press from the edge of 6 mm to 3 mm in each addition to the wrong side of the upper piece. Secure the fabric with sewing pins and stitch.

3. Attach the upper part to the panel with the faces and align the edges that are not sewn. Attach a paper pattern to the fabric, making an indent 1 cm from the edges and the top. Lock the pattern with English pins. Chalk or a piece of dried old soap around a pattern. Unfasten the pattern and put it aside.
   
   
4. Lock the fabric with pins and sweep the parts, sewing around the marked lines along the side pieces to the bottom of the fabric.

5. Stitch along the marked lines and remove the notch. Cut the serrated edge, leaving about 1 cm for the allowance along the entire seam.

6. Make incisions on the fabric, keeping the distance to the seam is not less than 3 mm. Cut the corners of the allowances on the seams from the top of each tooth.

7. Unscrew the top piece, carefully align the corners and press the treated edges. It is easy and quick to straighten the corners by using a point of a pair of scissors or knitting needles.

8. Press the 6 mm edges on the underside of the backing by 3 mm for each addition, secure with pins and stitch it. Make with all edges around the perimeter of the panel.

9. Press on the underside of 2 cm of the bottom edge of the future curtain 1 cm for each addition. Manually sew the "goat" seam.

10. Unscrew the underside 4 cm from the top of each tooth and sew a "goat" with a seam.
    
11. Sew the buttons on the front side of the curtain on each loop 5 cm from the top. For a more decorative effect, you can sew large buttons that will look great from afar.

Useful advice: to make the curtain beautiful and indoors, and outside, attach a lining to it, without sewing to the bottom of the panel. Then the curtain will look equally good and your hand craft will be noticeable even from the street.