Comments on: Sewing for the Home ~ Sewing a Slipcover (Part Three)

By: Bujo

Bujo — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:13:26 +0000

Thank you for this great friendly tutorial! I’ve been looking everywhere for an instruction to help me reupholster a chair I found on craigslist, and this is it!

It’s would be great if you can tell me approximately how many yards of fabric I might need to do this project? I bought some fabric to do a window curtain in the past, and the whole piece shrunk on me after a wash. Hopefully I got it right this time!

Thank you!

By: Barbara

Barbara — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:04:17 +0000

Thanks for the great tutorial.

I have inherited a pair of wing chairs that I love and would like to try my hand at slipcovers for them.

I have 2 questions for you:

1. I notice you did not do a separate cover for the cushion, but rather left the cushion on the chair. Is there any particular reason for this?

2. I do not want to have a skirt on the cover for the wing chair as I think that spoils the look. I have wondered, though, if without a skit, does the slipcover fabric ride up at the bottom of the chair, revealing the old fabric?

Thanks again for the tutorial.

Barbara

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:15:34 +0000

Wow! I feel like I can do this now…My southern grandmother had linen slip-covers for all of her living room furniture. I loved to watch the changing of the seasons with the changing of the slip-covers. Now I can do it too!

By: Ellen

Ellen — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:49:56 +0000

What an awesome task you’ve undertaken in documenting your slipcover project! That information is so valuable to those of us home dec sewers who learn best by pictures! Thank you ever so much! Please stop by and visit us at: http://nouveaustitch.lefora.com.

Ellen

By: naoko

naoko — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:33:11 +0000

Thank you for this tutorial!
I’ve reupholstered (actually not finished yet) a chair in white fabric (it was a cool idea at the time…) and have been dreading figuring out how to make a snug cover.
Thanks again!

By: Susan Clinkscales

Susan Clinkscales — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:21:18 +0000

This is an amazing tutorial! I’ve always wondered how to do semi-custom slip covers and you just explained it in three articles. Thanks so much!

By: melissa garcia

melissa garcia — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:29:45 +0000

thank you for this series–it was so informative. i think that it was just what i needed to move forward with making slip covers for my kitchen chairs.

By: mattie

mattie — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:27:42 +0000

I am just about to endeavor on making a slipcover for my queen anne style sofa. Your tutorial is great and will help me so much. Thanks.

By: Roxanne

Roxanne — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:10:37 +0000

I am so excited to put this to use! Thanks for being so thorough, hopefully it will prevent me from blundering my way too badly through it.

By: kristen lejnieks

kristen lejnieks — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:52:02 +0000

Great tutorial!!