How to Make Slipcovers
Designing, Measuring, and Sewing Perfect-Fit Slipcovers for Chairs, Sofas, and Ottomans. A Storey BASICS® Title
Author: Patricia Hoskins Series: Storey Basics
Give your favourite 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 mitred corners, applying trims, and finishing with zippers, envelope backs, or ties.
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Give your favourite 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 mitred corners, applying trims, and finishing with zippers, envelope backs, or ties.
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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.
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 the author of How to Make Slipcovers and is a co-author of One-Yard Wonders, Fabric-by-Fabric One-Yard Wonders, and Little One-Yard Wonders.
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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!
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