How often do we start home remodeling? The soul needs change and this is quite normal. Sometimes the cause of the alteration is the personal desire of the owner. However, most often the situation occurs when the owners are forced to produce, so to speak, repair of furniture items that have become unusable or worn out. Very often this story concerns sofas. This piece of furniture, as a rule, wears out faster than others, and the reason is our favorite pastime after work.
As a rule, desperate, the households decide to completely change the covers at the couch. However, pleasure is not cheap. To solve the covers of a sofa sometimes costs as much as buying a new one. In addition, you have to take apart the sofa and transport it to the workshop, and then back. So why not make it easier for yourself and not sew your own? Wise mistresses take the situation into their own hands and decide to sew a cover on furniture with their own hands. An excellent way out. Moreover, in this case, there is no need to search for a good master. We are now our own masters and can do everything with our own hands. A step-by-step instruction, presented below, will help us in this matter.
Tools and materials
Materials and tools for sewing a sofa, perhaps, will be found in every mistress. Except for the material itself and the sewing machine. But in our time to find these items will not be a big problem. Of the small details we will need:
- spool of thread,
- scissors,
- Pins for bonding pieces of fabric on the wrong side,
- roulette.
As a material for the cover itself, you can use both light upholstery fabrics and dense ones. The choice is big enough. The most important thing is that the color of the cover is combined with the interior in the room.
Typically, for sewing a cover for a medium-sized sofa requires about 8 meters of fabric. We advise you to buy fabrics in the store by 1.5-2 meters more. If the fabric remains, you can try sewing cushions. Such pillows will complement the new situation in the room. We also recommend you to wash the fabric before sewing. After washing, the dimensions of the material may decrease.
Patterns of a cover on a sofa
Undoubtedly, without the basic skills of sewing and working on a sewing machine, coping will be very, very difficult. Do not despair, it's a matter of time. Learn by force of each. All the sofas have an individual shape, so use the standard patterns for sure will not work. But for an example, see the pattern below.
Do not skimp on the material for the boot. Work with the full width of the canvas. Make all the patterns with your own hands. Do not worry if the cover does not tightly fit the sofa, the styles are different. Next, we'll show you how to measure the parts of a sofa cover. What length or width of the rectangle, how and how many cm, it is necessary to retreat - these and other questions will be answered below.
Step-by-step instruction on sewing a cover on a sofa
Below is an example of sewing a cover on a sofa. A small sofa is used as a basis, with the example of which we show how to sew a cover and transform this piece of furniture. In addition, such a cover can also be sewn onto a chair. We'll show you how to make free folds at the bottom of the couch. Thanks to them, putting on a case will be easy on any product.
On a note! It is worth noting that the sewing of the presented sofa took about 3.5 meters of fabric.
How to sew a cover on the sofa with your own hands? You will get the most detailed information about this below.
Step 1: Place the fabric on the sofa with the wrong side facing up. Arrange it as for a finished cover.
Step 2: If the number of fabrics is insufficient, consider the extensions of the additional material. In addition, on the back wall you can sew pockets, in which you can stack various trifles. This is very convenient and practical.
Step 3: Next, you need to outline the location of the incisions to be able to sew parts of the sofa cover in the future work.
Step 4: Baste the cover for the sofa at all supposed seams.
Step 5: In the right places, make incisions to connect the details of the boot.
On a note! The most delicate place is the side folds of the cover for the sofa. The rectangular canvas of the backrest goes forward and closes the stand. It is necessary to cut the fabric from the "sitting" part of the sofa in the chosen place and sew it with the backrest. And to cut a rectangle it is necessary so that it turned out without excess. Staple parts are required to be connected with pins. Do not forget that the fabric still remains the wrong side up.
6 step: Next, you need to cut off excess parts on the wrong side.
Step 7: Unscrew the lined cover on the front side and put it back on the couch. The cover must be loosely placed on the couch and laid on all sides. You can stitch the product by making sure it's fit on the sofa!
Step 8: What to do next? Further it is necessary to lay lines at right angles in those places where we have pins. The entire procedure should be repeated with a different angle.
Step 9: I would also like to pay attention to the frill of the couch. On the frill you can make folds for a special design of the cover and its free seating on the sofa. The folds are made about 2 cm deep. The distance between the folds is determined independently, depending on personal preferences. You can use a small ruler or other object to lay equal gaps on the fabric for furniture.
Step 10: Determine the middle of the rectangular part of the cover, to which the frill will be fastened. From this central part we begin to pin the frill to the cover with the help of pins. We prick the tissue without tension. At the end, we make seams on the parts using a sewing machine.
Do not forget to sweep the product: with zigzag, overcasting machine or manual stitches (with a stitching seam). The cover is ready! How do it all the same great that needlewomen can share their experiences with each other, give advice, making it easier for beginners! New creative ideas to you and inspiration!
Video: how to sew a cover on the sofa with your own hands
Of course, sewing a cover on the sofa on the written instructions is quite difficult. Very often there are questions or misunderstandings. To get a more detailed understanding of the process of sewing "clothes" for furniture, we present you with a video instruction.