If I was going to have my mom make a fabric shower curtain how many yards of fabric would I need?
Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at
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measure the opening side to side and from the rod down leaving extra on both sides and go from there
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Measure the width of your shower the multiply it by 2. Add 2" for a 1" hem on either side. That will give you the width. Measure from the shower rod to the floor and add 2", that will give you the length.
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I’m a professional seamstress.
The yards of fabric you need would depend on what you wanted it to look like (and the width of the fabric). Sometimes you can find patterns in store, specifically if you wanted a frilly design or something more complicated.
A simple shower curtain would be easy to sew because it’s basically a long, lined rectangle. Measure how long you’d need it to be (from floor to curtain rod) and write that down. The measure how wide you want it to be (wall to wall). Write that down and then add several inches to the number (the curtain wont be tight, it’ll have extra fabric). About 20 extra inches would be enough.
These number are the final measurements of the curtain, but you’ll need more fabric than that for seam allowances, and possibly a pocket for a rod at the top (you might just use rings to hang it, I don’t know what your doing here).
For example.
If you wrote down that the final curtain needs to be 72+20 in. wide x 84 in. long, and your fabric is 36 inches wide, then you’d need about 3 sections to go across and about 3 yards to get to the floor. Multiply these and you’d need about 9 yards of fabric, just for a simple flat curtain.
By the way, if the fabric costs $3 per yard, then this will wind up costing about $30. It would be cheaper to go to wal-mart and buy a shower curtain for $12 already made.
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I didn’t even mention the lining. The measurements would be the same as for the regular curtain, so that’s about another 9 yards, and another $18.
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In the most basic sense a TUB/Shower area is 52 to 54 inches. Allowing for whatever length; top to floor YOU CHOOSE; consider the FABRIC and it’s reactions to water; and after effects in retaining that water/moisture; even if you add a vinyl liner.
Winging it shouldn’t be an issue at all fro someone familiar with a sewing machine and the ability to either measure, or follow measurement suggestions. It’s most often a rectangle, and should be hemmed; have a ROD POCKET on the top edge for the ROD it has to go through OR something more elaborate using some GROMMIT type inclusion.
Assume the ceiling might be 8 ft…the shower head at 6 ft plus or minus; the "curtain" should allow that it’s long enough to keep water IN the area, so perhaps in width you might consider 5 ft, with hemming x 7 ft with hemming as well.
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