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I had an old -fashioned rod curtain that needed to be gathered easily to get it out of the way. (Which is why all modern curtains have these grommets.) With the included template, super easy to install and looks and works great! Hint: cut just inside the marked circle for a snug fit to the rings. If you cut on the circle you'll be missing some material to grab. Watch the video to see how to start the circle, and use sewing shears. Does not require perfection in cutting, just don't make it too big lol. And don't be too rough, esp in laundering...

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Made outdoor curtains for our home and now for our neighbor. Anyone going by remarks how nice they are. So easy to install and they hang beautifully. Excellent. Wish I had used them years ago when making indoor drapery.

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El producto llego una semana antes de lo que se estableció al momento de la compra. Es de material plástico, no es metálico, pero es resistente y muy fácil de instalar e incluso reutilizar ya que al ensamblar, se forma una ranura por la cual, si introduces un desarmador o destornillador ,plano, es muy fácil de abrir y colocar de nuevo en otra cortina. El producto que adquirí decía medida Each. Esto no es la medida, esto significa que solo hay 1 paquete disponible. Para checar medida, entre en detalles , en las fotos del producto y ahí describían el diámetro. En mi caso fue de 1 9/16”.

Love it! Love it!! Love it!!! Thank you Dritz!!!! These are so easy to use, child of 3 could do it. I created a cloth shower curtain for my RV bathroom in flamingo pink. I could not find a small size shower curtain with the color I wanted. The bathroom is turquoise and flamingo pink with a pink flamingo motif. I found sheer polyester curtains at IKEA, chopped down to size, folded over the top so there is some thicker cloth to grab (you do not want the cloth too thin), and put these on. Fabulous!!When you fold over your cloth, you want a medium thickness, not canvas thick. These are plastic grommets, not metal, so will be very hard to put onto a canvas cloth IF FOLDED OVER TOO THICK. For canvas cloth, keep it thinner with a 1 or 2 fold ply. For voile or medium weight cotton, 3 folds is perfectly fine.Fold over your curtain, sew your top hem line. Use chalk to draw a horizontal middle line cutting the top hemline in half to use as a guide. Arrange curtain on floor or table, with back side facing you and good side facing table. Place a grommet on either end and middle. Place grommets in between these marker grommets eyeballing for symmetry. Mark center of grommet with a vertical chalk line cutting center line. Generally 6-8 inches apart looks right for smaller curtains. Use the spacing that looks right for larger curtains or look this up online if you want to be technical. My RV is a dollhouse, so everything is smaller and more dainty.Use clear plastic template provided with each pack, to draw a circle where you want the grommet. Your center chalk line is very useful at this point, making them line up evenly. Use curved small 4 inch embroidery scissors to cut a hole in the cloth. The template hole is sized exactly right to the grommet, so have no fear! I used this pair of scissors for my work - http://www.amazon.com/Gingher-Curved-Embroidery-Scissors-01-005273/dp/B000UU4O20 much cheaper on Amazon than the $45 I paid to the local sewing shop. These curved snips are very useful in all sewing work so money is not wasted. I use some Fray check around the cut cloth so it does not fray with time and is very solidly built.Put the good half of a grommet (raised rings inside) on the good side of your curtain, and the bad side of the grommet (has prongs inside and a gap for screwdriver) on the bad side of curtain. Snap together. Done! If you need to pry open the grommets anytime, use a flat head screwdriver in the hole on bad side of grommet to pry open easily.Wash carefully in cold or warm water or hand wash. No agitator washing machine only front-loading drum machine. No dryer at all!!! Hang dry. You don't want damaged or melted plastic in dryer.Note: This is the best you are going to get in the home DIY large grommet category. You cannot get metal grommets this size for DIY because you need a special and very expensive hand press with metal die matched to grommet size. If you invest in those, then yes, you can do metal grommets any size at home. But they don't sell them as DIY kits and are much harder to make. I heartily recommend these grommets for all DIY home applications. The grommets are cheap and you can always replace them. Much more cost effective solution.I was not paid to write this review even if it does sound like advertising. I am a DIYer and I did a lot of research before using these.

I used these grommets for a curtain project to cover my laundry area, an oversized closet right off the kitchen. I first ordered one package and tried it on my fabric with a variety of interfacings to see what worked best for the fabric/grommet combination. I was really pleased to see that the grommets worked well with the light polyester fabric, clicking together very firmly, and, with the aid of a small screwdriver, popping apart. The trick is that the hole that needs to be cut for the grommet can be hard to cut accurately in the slithery fabric I was using, so I decided to use a double-sided interface that bonded the two pieces of fabric for the top together; this worked very well. The template provided with the grommets was an extra plus. I ordered more packages for my project. As it happened, since I was working with three fabric panels to create one panel and I used a felled seam with each panel join, I had a situation where I absolutely needed to put a grommet over one of the felled seams. I was amazed to see that the grommets had no trouble at all with the extra fabric thickness. The curtain has been up now for three months and I have no problems at all. I think this is a fabulous product; easy to use, and a great look.

This was my first time putting grommets in drapes. Fact is, I haven't made drapes or used my sewing machine in about 15 years, didn't have time or interest. I do know how to sew and have made drapes and curtains in the past that turned out very nice and professional looking. Not sure what I was thinking when actually volunteered to make drapes for my son and daughter-in-law who recently bought a house and claimed that buying drapes for the living and dining room was not in the budget. We already had some beautiful drape material plus liner material for the project. I could see the vision and it looked fairly easy. I volunteered to make them.Then my daughter-in-law said she wanted grommets instead rod pockets. I watched some You Tube videos and read about it, decided I could do. People illustrating said it is easy. (Not my conclusions, but then that may be my lack of skill or patience, or the fact that we were using thick drapery material plus lining vs thinner cotton and unlined.) Plus, I was making (am still making/ dealing with grommets, but almost finished) 8 panels due to the number of windows. There are 8 grommets per panel (per package too) so there were 64 grommets that needed to be put in, a lot of tedious work and quite expensive.The package includes a grommet template for a single grommet. I used this with a ruler to make a panel template out of cardboard so could just lay the strip of cardboard along the header and draw all the grommet holes. Worked great. Ran into other challenges, like I did not have enough strength in hands to snap the grommet into when the fabric was between them. Solicited 2 guys for this task. They also were challenged to snap grommets together with the thick fabric in between. A woman on one of the demonstration videos used a rubber mallet to snap the grommets together, so we tried that. Bad idea! Brutal force from my assistants resulted in two cracked grommets before I called a halt to this strategy. Already I was going to have to buy another pack of grommets. I trimmed the inner lining inside the holes to make it thinner and the guys tried manual again. Still a bit of a challenge but it was doable.Lessons learned - Don't do grommets! Or, only do if are making just 2 panels and are unlined drapes or thin material with thin lining. The quality of these plastic grommets is good and they look very nice. The drapes look lovey as well. Whew! What was I thinking??