Instructions for sewing a cover for upholstered furniture

Covers of removable type for protection of a sofa upholstery, armchairs in recent years gained great popularity. They perform a number of important functions: they protect the fabric of upholstery of upholstery from pollution, damage, they are an interior decoration, stylistic accent, and so on. Let's talk in detail about how to make do-it-yourself sewing covers for upholstered furniture, tips from experienced designers.

Material selection

Covers for furniture allow a person to change the appearance of upholstered furniture beyond recognition. These are practical and attractive-looking products that protect the upholstery of upholstered furniture from wear. Do not think that the product is not subject to wear. If poor-quality material was used to sew covers for upholstered furniture, the product will not last a long time. Very quickly it will become worthless, thereby endangering the sofa or chair. Because why it is necessary to start the process with the selection of high-quality material.

You should not select expensive material for work if we are sewing a cover for the first time in our life. It is better to prefer practical, affordable textiles, which will be easy to work with.

We choose fabrics with high strength and elasticity.

The amount of material that will be required is calculated as follows: two lengths + two widths of a sofa or chair.

Necessary tools

If you try hard, you can sew such a cover yourself. And experienced designers will tell you how to do this without any problems. Read this article. Sewing a case in the right way the first time may fail, because the technology is quite complicated. But if everything works out, you can transform even not attractive design in the best way.

Do-it-yourself furniture covers can be made using the following tools:

• scissors - the main thing is that they are sharpened well, then when cutting material there will be no problems;
• a set of needles with a bead at one end. They will be required to fix the details of the paper pattern on the fabric. The more needles you have, the more convenient it will be for you to cut out the details of the future cover;
• sewing machine;
• measuring tape - with its help it will be necessary to perform measurements of upholstered furniture;
• a simple pencil for marking on paper;
• chalk for marking on the fabric.

In other words, with the exception of the sewing machine, all the described tools are present in every home. But there will be no problems with the machine: you can ask her friends.

Taking measurements

It should be understood that each particular piece of furniture is individual, has certain characteristics: width, length, depth, height. To perform accurate sewing of furniture covers, you will need to correctly measure the object. This will make it possible to understand how many details will need to be cut out, as well as what shape for the cover will be most acceptable, convenient, beautiful.

Use a measuring tape to carefully measure every detail of the sofa. Next, you will need to write down all the numbers, but it is better to draw a diagram with the marks of all the parameters of each part and their numbering. Remember that to the measurements you need to add 2 cm allowances for the seams necessary for the evenness of the seams.

And the amount of fabric that will be required for sewing the product can be calculated according to the following scheme: we take two lengths and add two sofa widths to it. So you get the amount of material that you need to have available.

Pattern details

To sew covers on upholstered furniture yourself, you will need to make patterns. If the piece of upholstered furniture has a standard rectangular shape, or is it an angular model that has walls and backs of the usual direct shape, it will be easy to make a pattern for it. After performing accurate measurements of each part, place them on graph paper, taking into account the direction of the beat line. Further, the performed calculations will need to be transferred to textiles using chalk.

The marking is applied on the wrong side with allowance for seams. Experienced designers advise making large allowances that are easy to adjust after trying on. This will avoid errors.

To make a pattern, you need to get ordinary newspapers. Copy paper will do. She "pasted over" parts of the details of the sofa, you will need to outline their shape and cut out the details using scissors. All of them are collected using adhesive tape and the pattern is adjusted directly "in place". The cuts are connected with tape, and the missing gaps grow with new pieces of paper.

Sewing a cover

Many housewives are interested in the numerous forums of needlewomen on the Internet, how to sew do-it-yourself cases on upholstered furniture. Sewing will not take you much time if you read this article to the end.

Stitch the details of the future product cut out of the fabric with a sewing machine. Since the cover will subsequently experience high loads in the seam area, especially in the case when the pattern turned out to be a bit dense, some seams should be sewn twice. Designers do not recommend sewing too small stitches on the sewing machine. This will not add strength to the seams, but will destroy the fibers of the fabric.

If in some places the cover is too wide, it’s worth stitching the rubber band to its edge. It is also worth using special Velcro, with which the cover will acquire higher functionality. To fix the hem of the product on the furniture legs, you will need to use ribbons or cords.

Dressing

If you have sewing skills, sew the sofa cover with your own hands. To decorate it, you can apply a variety of bows, ribbons, belts. Such trifles not only give the product even more attractiveness, but also allow you to veil some of the flaws made during operation. In addition, decorative elements allow you to give the sofa individuality, and the master himself - to show his own sense of style, talent, and ability.

It is also worth decorating a sofa with a cover with interesting decorative pillows. They add upholstery, comfort, practicality to upholstered furniture, hide inaccuracies in sewing allowed in some places from their eyes. And if you sew pillowcases for them from the same material as the cover on the sofa, the kit will look very concise, harmonious, beautiful.

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