Best Way To Weigh Down Outdoor Curtains

This was a great idea.

Best way to weigh down outdoor curtains.

Press your seams flat with an iron. Because chain weights provide weighting along the entire bottom of the curtain this is often considered the best way to weight curtains. You can hand sew a couple of stitches around the chain at either end of the hem to prevent it from sliding around if you lift the drape up. Drapery weights are made to stabilize drapes but they also work with shower curtains.

Run this entire chain through the hem and cut it to size. Once your bottom seams are double folded and pressed this is the point when you can slip your lead drapery weights into the bottom hem if you want to weigh the curtains down and cut back on how much they blow around. You just open the bottom and thread chain in the bottom like you do a wast band then close the ends. Fold the hems in again another 1 pin and press again with your iron.

Weighted shower curtains usually have at least two weights one at each bottom corner of the hemline. It is heavy enough to weigh them down but still flexible so you can gather them and tie them back. Fishing weights pennies pebbles. I ended up sewing a length of lightweight chain into the bottom of each one.

I needed this before i spent way too much money on outdoor curtain rods. I had a problem with my curtains flying around to.