Sew Your Own Designer Draperies Video Download

Pam Damour | Runtime (52 min)

In Sew Your Own Designer Draperies, Pam Damour – home décor sewist extraordinaire – shows you how to make your own draperies suited to your taste and needs. To begin, you’ll learn about the anatomy of drapery – an integral part to the process. You’ll also get a lesson in how to read your fabric, which will allow you to evaluate the quality of the material you’re working with. Once you have a knowledgebase to work from, Pam will discuss the order of operations when creating drapes and walk you through the process. Don’t miss this one!

You’ll love this sewing video if you:

• Like home décor projects
• Want to learn more about sewing draperies
• Want to learn more about using quality materials

In Sew Your Own Designer Draperies, you’ll learn how to:

• Cut the lining and press it for hems
• Put weights in the hem
• Create pleats in draperies and learn where to place them
• Calculate the desired length of draperies
• Install drapery pins and the difference between the 3 types of pins
• Hang draperies properly
• Fold drapery panels for proper storage

About the Expert:

Known as the “Decorating Diva,” Pam Damour learned early in life, while spending time on her grandparent’s farm, that making something from “scratch” was not only a way of life but it was the better way of doing things. Holding on to those values she went from farm to fabric and has had a very successful 30 year career as an interior designer and sewing professional. Pam offers professional drapery workroom training to the trade and consumers. As a seasoned career speaker, she travels internationally teaching her specialty techniques that have brought her years of continued business as the “Couture of Home Dec Sewing.” She is the co-author of Pillow Talk and Cheaper By the Dozen and producer of 12 home dec DVDs. Pam enjoys the hands-on aspect of the window treatment industry and has developed a 12-part template system to make custom window treatments that’s taking the industry by storm! Pam lives on the shore of Lake Champlain in a log home, nestled at the foot of the Adirondack Mountains, where she teaches sewing retreats and her Window Treatment Boot Camp. Her down to earth nature, never forgetting her roots, combined with her professionalism creates a warm and creative experience.