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Give your favorite furniture a new look! Patricia Hoskins, co-author of the best-selling One-Yard Wonders, offers simple, step-by-step, illustrated instructions for making your own slipcovers for dining chairs, easy chairs, ottomans, and sofas with either loose back pillows or fixed cushions. She explains exactly how to complete every step of the process, from choosing the best fabrics to calculating yardage, sewing curved seams, creating mitered corners, applying trims, and finishing with zippers, envelope backs, or ties.
Synopsis
EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Give your furniture a new life with customized slipcovers. Whether you want to protect a new sofa from kids and pets or give a tired armchair a much-needed makeover, slipcovers are a great solution. Expert sewing instructor Patricia Hoskins explains the entire process, from selecting fabric and calculating yardage to applying pretty trims. Once you've mastered mitered corners and curved seams, an updated dining or living room is always a slipcover away. Let's get started!
About the Author
Patricia Hoskins is the co-owner of Crafty Planet, a retail fabric and needlework store and craft workshop in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and has designed several of the patterns used in Crafty Planet classes. She enjoys knitting, crocheting, spinning, sewing, quilting, embroidery, and cross-stitching and is a graduate of American University, the University of Oregon, and the University of Missouri-Columbia Library Science program. She is a co-author of both One-Yard Wonders and Fabric-by-Fabric One-Yard Wonders.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Slipcover Design and Assembly
Step-by-Step Overview - Materials and Tools
Chapter Two: Choosing Fabrics
Considerations - Fibers - Fabrics
Chapter Three: Trims
The Basics - Make Your Own Welting - Making Bias Strips - How to Baste Welting Together
Chapter Four: Special Techniques
Finessing Seams - Shaping - Inserting Trims - Adding a Zipper - Closure - Adding Ties
Chapter Five: Anatomy of a Slipcover
Naming Body Parts - Ottomans and Stools - Straight Chairs without Arms - Armchairs and Sofas - Cushions
Chapter Six: Style Your Skirt
Flat Skirts - Pleats - Gathers - Hems - Making and Attaching Bias Strips
Chapter Seven: Yardage Requirements
Things to Consider - Ballparking Yardage - Pattern Repeats - Panel Piecng Tips
Chapter Eight: Projects
Pinning, Fitting, and Basting - Rectangular Ottoman Slipcover - Round Stool Slipcover - Straight Chair Slipcover - Armchair or Sofa Slipcover - Zippered Seat Cushion or Back Cushion
Appendix
Sample Cutting Layouts
Standard Metric Conversion Formulas and Equivalents
Index