Curtains. What would you do?

I would do nothing at all for at least six months - I realised only a few days ago how my dining room curtains have dropped - when I made them and we hung them I thought they were a bit short but I had purposely made them to be off the floor as they are very pale and onto a wooden floor. OH said he would lower the pole but I decided to leave them. The curtains are about two and a half metres long and have dropped a good couple of centimetres.
I think that if the curtains are hung by altering a hook and it is put into a higher slot the curtains will look much worse as they will not hang correctly. If the fabric is patterned and they are made longer in the centre the pattern will be wrong at the bottom. I dare say you were looking at them in daylight and the light would show the gap up far more than when it is dark outside.

Elegran I agree with you.

Yes, it was in daylight Welshwife and that did show up the gap a lot.

Her sister is going to have a word with her about them. I'm off the hook. (no pun intended)

Regarding adjusting the hooks hanging on the curtain tape - I meant to slightly lower the hook on the tape threads towards the centre (and not raise the hook as I previously stated).

Welshwife You could be right in that it may affect how they would hang.
I was just talking as an idea came to me.
However I didn't mean to change the level of the hook just at the centre, I meant to lower the hooks gradually as they worked across the tape from the side.
It's possible they still might not hang properly but it was just a thought .

The curtain fabric itself is not being made longer in the centre, just adjusting how the hooks/tape are fitted together to allow perhaps 1cm towards the centre.
I can't see how this would affect the pattern and make it wrong. It's still the same two edges that have been unaltered in any way.

Yes, it could be the sill that is 'off'.
Indeed in our house it is the lounge floor that is off !!

Are DDs curtains actually the same length at the centre as at the sides?
Apologies if this has already been mentioned.
Just wondering if it would make a difference swopping the two curtains across and and putting each 'outside edge' to the centre.

Just wondering if it would make a difference swopping the two curtains across and and putting each 'outside edge' to the centre.

That could work

Reported

If your curtains touch the sill, you will eventually get soiling on the bottom edge (I dont care how often you dust the sill - it will happen). Complain to JL and ask them to shorten the curtains so that they hang 1cm above the sill. You/they will need to take meticulous drop measurements all the way along the bottom edge. Or it could be that the track/pole has been fitted unevenly. Whatever, the JL measurer didnt do a proper job.

I haven't read the whole thread but I've just washed dry clean curtains and found that apart from shrinking one centre curtain is very slightly shorter than its mate. I've sewn a £2 coin in the hem of the shorter one and it seems to have worked. Took about a week and I damped the corner.

I had some curtains given to me which said dry clean only, thinking it would be safe to wash I put them on a gentle wash they came out lovely and clean but when they dried I went to iron them and found that the lining had shrunk! oops!