Portiere pinch pleat panel

An open doorway needed a two-sided pinch-pleated drapery panel on an inside-mounted track with glides.

After much trial and error, I devised a way to sew glides in between the two drapery layers, so the fabric could be pleated outward on both sides.

To make the panels, I sewed right sides together - - - by hand with a ladder stitch.  I did not trust my machine-sewing skills enough to get these edges matched perfectly.  The layers are interlined with thermal lining.

At the bottom, I slipped in drapery weights.....

And closed the bottom with a few inches of stitching.

At the top, one layer has buckram folded into the header, and the other layer has the thermal lining folded into the header.

I pressed them down and basted about 10" down so the layers would not shift when I transferred the fabric to the sewing machine to create the pleat back-stitching.

Each side is pleated separately, to pattern of course!- and the sewn-in glides join the layers.