Patricia Hoskins

How to Make Slipcovers (eBook, ePUB)

Designing, Measuring, and Sewing Perfect-Fit Slipcovers for Chairs, Sofas, and Ottomans. A Storey BASICS® Title

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Storey Publishing, LLC
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781612125268
• Artikelnr.: 43816207

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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