My mom is redecorating her bedroom, and I took her shopping for curtains. After looking at various patterns, she fell in love with one in particular.
This pattern happened to be on a shower curtain instead of a regular curtain panel, but we figured, a curtain is a curtain, right? A quick hem would create a pocket for the rod and her bedroom would look more complete.
The only problem with sewing the rod pocket for these curtains was the texture. Being a shower curtain, the texture and raised pattern were rubbery.
That raised, rubbery texture made it super difficult to sew on the sewing machine; the feet and feed kept getting caught on the fabric so that it wouldn't feed smoothly. As a result the stitches were bunchy and uneven... like so:
It even stuck so bad that the fabric was damaged. You can see the pattern of the feet below, kinda like tire treads that left marks as the fabric was dragged through the machine.
Determined not to struggle with this, I pinned waxed paper strips to each side of the fabric. I thought they might help the fabric move smoothly.
You know what? I actually worked! The fabric fed smoothly and the stitches came out nice and even.
The wax paper was really easy to tear off, basically tearing along the perforation that the stitches naturally made.
The curtains are ready to hang.
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