How To Dress Up Drapery Panels

Do you have a pair of drapes that need some style?
Simply dress up the drapery panels...

using a fabulous chunky trim...

...or a favorite fabric.

Adding lengths of trim or bands of fabric can quickly add a lot of style to ready made drapes. Here a colorful fabric has been made into wide bands of fabric and attached along the bottom edge of a pair of drapery panels. The embellishment could also run along the panel sides or even along the top...the options are really limitless when it comes to adding trim to drapes!


To add bands of fabric to drapery panels, begin by finding a favorite fabric that coordinates with the drapes to be dressed up. You'll also need a couple rolls of stitch witchery and pull out the scissors, a temporary fabric pen, yardstick, ruler and iron. Thanks to the convenience of stitch witchery, no sewing is required for this project!


Cut the lengths of fabric that will become the trim panels. If the drapes being dressed up are 50" wide, simply cut one fabric length per panel (from 54" wide fabric). If the drapes being embellished are double width panels, cut two fabric lengths and fuse them together to form one length long enough to run across the entire width of the drapery panel.

To cut the trim panels, begin by drawing a straight line along the bottom edge of fabric using a temporary fabric pen. Then cut along the line.


Next measure up from the bottom edge of fabric ten inches and mark at one foot intervals along the width of fabric. (The bands could be narrow or wide, depending on the look you want to create.)


Draw a line connecting the marks using a temporary fabric pen and yardstick...


and cut along the line.


To create finished edges on the trim panels, turn edges under one inch along the panel top and bottom and press in place with an iron.


Then simply insert a length of stitch witchery under the top and bottom hems and press with an iron to secure the hems.


Now it is time to attach the trim panels to the drapes. Lay the bands along the drapery panels and measure up from the drapery hem to ensure the trim panel is placed evenly along the drape. Place lengths of stitch witchery under the trim panel bottom edge and press with an iron to secure the trim to the drape.


Insert a length of stitch witchery under the top edge of the trim panel and press in place to secure the trim to the drape.


To create finished ends, wrap the trim panel around to the backside of the drapery panel, insert stitch witchery under the trim panel and press with an iron.

And that's all there is to it...do you think you might give it a try?