Dritz 1", Bronze Curtain Grommets, 1, 8 Count

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.

Finish is Shiney Black on both pieces of grommet that made installation easier on the type of fabric used.

I finally caved and bought these for over 15 dollars here and arrived today with the larger ones that are also dritz I bought for 1/3 the price for matching set of 8. I am making a customized special yarn tote for a friend and needed the grommets to match for the two sizes. I have real metal brass and silver finished grommets in 1/2 size which either would have worked well but she loves PINK and so the tote is made of combination of outdoor 500D pink cordura cloth and pink and grey ripstop nylon inner lined materials. I will use One BIG grommet on each of the narrower ends and 4 of the smaller ones on each of the wider sides so she will have a variety of optional holes to choose from for her various projects and meet all yarn sizes one way or another. However my star reduction from 5 down to 3 is price. When should anything made of plastic that uses half as much plastic or less cost three times as much than the twice the size larger sized version for the exact same number of 8 per pack. No I thought it was excessive to pay 16 dollars basically for a set of grommets made of plastic that are only 1 inch because that pretty much doubles the fabric and material cost already in the project. So yes insane. However I wanted the project to turn out really special so I bit the bullet so to speak and bought these along with the larger ones. I thought carefully and long about a week to make up my mind to just either go with the super large all around the bag and save 10 dollars overall by buying to packs of the large ones but in the end just decided my friend was worth it. (For myself I would have just gone with the 1/2 to 3/4" metal grommets in silver or brass. The grey was because I did not like the brass with the pink as nice as the silver or a grey worked much nicer and more class. I think I will run a cording in silver-grey taffeta all around the outter seams of the bag too to bring it really together as a theme. (I am also adding some goodies and inner bags pockets with and without zippers both inside and out along with a pull out tray that can hold up to 8 skeins of yarn and it too will divide into 4 so say she's using 4 different yarns for a project that will allow her to have a full half of the tote to store the project as it grows on the other side. Say a large scarf or even alfghan or sweater. If it comes out well I intend to make one for a friend in Texas I bought years ago a knitting machine from. I know she loves periwinkle and purples but not enough to plunge right into finding a match in cordura cloth just yet. Ok that's my review. But really if I were to do this again I would go with a pack of 24 off brand so you get a lot more for your money and they work just as well. Only reason I didn't do that myself this time was I wanted the two size choices and did prefer the plastic and medium darker grey Dritz named pewter.

I used these grommets for some curtains I made. The curtain fabric is a little thick. The grommets fit well and look very nice. I am quite pleased.

Small size and small vacuum power.

There really good

I would definitely buy this product again, well worth the price, easily recommended. Used for a cosplay costume still being developed, exactly when this year is to be revealed.

These are not metal as advertised. They are plastic and clip on fairly easily. I think it would have been easier to clip them on if my curtains weren't so thick (they're heavy blackout drapes). They are a nice matte gold (not bronze) and the rings are narrow, so they look more like the grommets that are standard on curtains.

Very good for use as a large diameter eyelet on very thin materials and is reusable, no special tools required.

Awesome. Easy to work with. Did the job.

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.

Value for money. Very easy to use. Not suitable for heavy weight fabric as the area that I cut using the template has slipped out one.