Sewing

[somerfriend.livejournal.com]

I need some thermal curtains, and they have to be short.  I haven't been able to find any online or in stores that are not full length designed to essentally drape all the way from the top of the window to the floor or close to it.  So I guess I need to buy some thermal curtains and have someone cut and sew the bottoms. 

Any recomendations?  I guess I should be looking at dry cleaner businesses?

Or I might learn how to sew...

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[hammercock.livejournal.com]

I found some curtains of this sort at K-Mart in Assembly Square back in December.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I'm willing to bet someone volunteers here, since this is an easy job. I would, but my sewing machine is busted!

[starphire.livejournal.com]

If you don't want to learn to sew for this project, you might be able to just cut the curtains yourself, then use some heat-fusible seam tape and a hot clothes iron to seal a hem where you want it.

Thermal curtains usually have two layers of fabric, so you can tuck/fold both layers inward a few inches from the cut (so the outer surfaces now face each other at the very end). Place a strip of the magic tape (it's really just a hot melt glue coating a strip of fiber tape) the width of the curtain in the space between the inward-folded ends, press with the iron long enough to melt the glue, let cool, and you're done! It won't be as strong as a sewn hem, but it should hold up pretty well for a while.

You'll find the tape at fabric stores, but it goes by different names - I'd look for a heavy duty version for this use, but the regular stuff should still work.

[nomacmac.livejournal.com]

I got some standard window length ones at Target recently. Check the packages carefully...the sizes were all mixed together. (They were on an end cap in the curtain section)

[somerfriend.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Thus far, I haven't seen anything shorter than 63" for Thermal Curtains. I'll check at Target again, though I looked at the Everett Target over the weekend. Also tried KMart and Bed, Bath and Beyond.

[pakoo.livejournal.com]

I bought mine at Target too, they are great for blocking out the sunlight.

[jadia.livejournal.com]

I happen to have one spare panel of insulating curtains (27" x 80"). If you want it, it's yours - it's not clothy and it's white, but it blocks light and heat and cold.

[somerfriend.livejournal.com]

I'll take it. I'll PM you.