I went to Dunelm today and after seeing the price of curtains I decided to sew a pair for my new sewing room. I have made pleated drapes before but never the eyelet curtains that seem popular in the UK and which I thought I would put in the sewing room.
First of all, are the eyelets easy to do?
Secondly, I went to justfabrics website and it seems curtain fabric is 140 cm wide. The width of the window measured straight across is 175 cm (70 inches). Would two panels (one for each curtain) be sufficient width? With pleated drapes it's usually 1.75 times the width or even twice but I want to keep it simple and try not to put a vertical seam in the curtains and not bother matching pattern repeats.
I haven't measured the length yet but let's say for example that the finished length (excluding top and bottom hems) is 120 cm or 48 inches.
What's the formula for calculating how much fabric you need? It's easy to work out if one width of the fabric is enough for each curtain but if not I'm in a tizzy!