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  • Free Craft Demonstrations

    Free Craft Demonstrations

    Spring is almost upon us and with it comes our new round of Craft Demonstrations in selected Hickeys Fabrics and Home Focus Stores across the country. Don"t put of learning that new skill for another year - come along to our free Craft Demos to pick up a new skill, learn lots of new tips and chat with like minded people about all things craft and

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  • How to Choose The Right Furnishing Fabric

    How to Choose The Right Furnishing Fabric

    Choosing the right furnishing fabric for your project may seem a bit daunting but if you know a few things before you get started you can choose with confidence. Upholstery vs Curtain weight: Our furnishing fabrics will be marked with either UPH (upholstery weight) or CTN (curtain weight) - these are divided into 2 separate categories online

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  • Free Craft Demonstrations

    Free Craft Demonstrations

    Spring is almost upon us and with it comes our new round of Craft Demonstrations in selected Hickeys Fabrics and Home Focus Stores across the country. Don"t put of learning that new skill for another year - come along to our free Craft Demos to pick up a new skill, learn lots of new tips and chat with like minded people about all things craft and

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  • How to Choose The Right Furnishing Fabric

    How to Choose The Right Furnishing Fabric

    Choosing the right furnishing fabric for your project may seem a bit daunting but if you know a few things before you get started you can choose with confidence. Upholstery vs Curtain weight: Our furnishing fabrics will be marked with either UPH (upholstery weight) or CTN (curtain weight) - these are divided into 2 separate categories online

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  • Guide: Demystifying Custom Made Curtains

    Guide: Demystifying Custom Made Curtains

    Why would anyone buy custom made curtains you might wonder? What’s even the difference between having a pair of curtains made and buying a pair off the shelf? Why are they more expensive? Having worked in a Hickeys shop for more years than I care to let on I am fully equipped to answer these questions! Or at least I hope I am. In my opinion

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  • How to Choose Your Dress Fabric

    How to Choose Your Dress Fabric

    Choosing the correct fabric for your project may seem like an easy task - you just pick the one you fancy right? Wrong!! Choosing the incorrect fabric can make sewing and fitting your garment difficult or downright impossible. Now I’m normally not a colour inside the lines kind of a girl (I"ve been called contrary on occasion) but I will always

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  • Beginners Guide to Wave Curtains

    Beginners Guide to Wave Curtains

    Wave curtains are a modern style that are really making waves in the custom made curtain industry! (I"m so so sorry) Anyway puns aside it is a really simple and elegant style of curtain that particularly suits modern homes with large windows but looks great in any room where chic simplicity is the desired effect . [caption id="attachment_2050"

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  • How to Put Up a Curtain Pole

    How to Put Up a Curtain Pole

    So you get home with your shiny new curtain pole and are faced with hanging it. It might seem like a straightforward proposition but I have spent years working with curtains and have seen some shockers in people’s homes. Hung barely above the window, squashed either side of the window, brackets right at the end. On a side note -don’t invite

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  • Beginners Guide to Bay Window Styling

    Beginners Guide to Bay Window Styling

    Bay windows can be a stunning feature in a home - adding an extra feeling of space to a room with a charming look to boot. When it comes to dressing your bay windows, however, life is not always so picturesque as it can be an awkward space to work with. The unfortunate result is that some people simply put curtains across their bay window, blocking

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  • Beginners Guide to Knitting Wool

    Beginners Guide to Knitting Wool

    It"s confession time again here on the blog: I am a wool addict! I love wool more than I love knitting with wool and when I say wool I mean real wool - that lovely stuff that comes from sheep. My wool addiction has gotten so bad that my boyfriend remarked that "the amount of balls of wool coming into the house are not really proportional to the

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  • How To Hang Your Ready Made Curtains

    How To Hang Your Ready Made Curtains

    If there’s one thing I heard more often than anything else when I worked in our stores it was “mine don’t look like that” - no sniggering please I’m obviously talking about ready made curtains. You see when you see ready made curtains on display in our stores they have been hung by our amazing display team who know all of the tricks of

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  • Introducing: Wool And The Gang

    Introducing: Wool And The Gang

    "We"ve all done it, purchased low quality, cheap, fast fashion made in factories abroad and wondered "how do they make it so cheap?" The reality is not good" - Wool And The Gang We at Hickeys are so delighted to be the first stockist for Wool And The Gang here in Ireland. This incredible and innovative company work hard to reduce impact on the

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