How to sew a cover on a sofa?

If you have long been planning to refine your old furniture or want to keep the last purchase in perfect condition, then this article will come in handy, because in it we will describe in detail how to sew a cover on a sofa. This product, which is simple in terms of manufacturing, will help the basic upholstery to remain as beautiful and durable for longer. With the help of such a coating it is possible to transform any piece of furniture so that it matches the style prevailing in the interior.

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Features of independent sewing of a cover for a sofa

Using the idea of ​​sewing a cover on a sofa with your own hands, in fact, can anyone who knows how to handle at least a little thread, a needle and thick materials. The sewing machine and other devices will not interfere in this, but most of the work will still have to be done manually. The ability to build patterns on your own is also useful in this process, because finding a ready-made solution that is right for your furniture is not easy.

The easiest way is to use a ready-made wrap to sew a cover on the sofa. An easy way is to cut it into individual elements and transfer to new material. Unfortunately, not everyone has such an opportunity, so you can practice using other methods.

Important! It is better to make trial sewing from affordable inexpensive fabric, so that in case of failure it would not be a pity to throw it away. The cut out details are sewn with the most ordinary stitch, the main thing is that they fit each other in size, otherwise they won’t be able to sit tightly on the furniture. Take a test drive, spread the test product, use the received parts for cutting expensive fabric on a one-to-one scale.

Many workshops include sewing covers for products without armrests. As a rule, children’s rooms or country houses are equipped with such furniture; you can replace the armrests with stuffed pillows from an old sofa.

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How to sew a cover for a chair or sofa yourself?

Whatever cover you make on the sofa with your own hands you decide to sew, you will have to start unambiguously with measurements. This approach is used in the case of not only large furniture, but also chairs or armchairs. At the same time, the simplest and most effective way to build a pattern is to draw a sofa or chair and break the image into simple rectangles.

Schematically, the manufacture of a cover looks like this:

1. For small products, you can use only one fabric rectangle for the seat and back, but more often all the details are cut out separately.
2. Using the parameters of all the rectangles, then they need to be transferred to the paper for patterns. Its base is treated with adhesive, so working with it is simple - much more convenient than pinning tracing paper with pins on the fabric.
3. Leave 5-6 cm allowances between all parts - it all depends on how skilled you are at needlework. All excess can be cut off at the time of joining the finished parts.
4. Stitch the cut out rectangles to each other with external seams. Then try on your furniture. This will allow you to evaluate how well the cover is seated, you may have to let go of the seam somewhere, or, on the contrary, hem to make it perfect.
5. Now you can start stitching the finished parts of the product.

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Covers for corner sofas

Before touching on the topic of how to sew a cover on an angular sofa, let's talk about choosing the most suitable fabric for such a difficult purpose. As it turned out in practice, not every material is suitable for this, because the main thing is that the cover becomes practical and convenient:

• It is generally accepted that it cannot be made from excessively thin fabrics that need additional processing and do not hold well in a given shape, in particular, this concerns artificial silk, chiffon, satin.
• The ideal option is a dense material of medium elasticity, which has a special impregnation that allows furniture to remain clean for as long as possible.

After determining and buying a suitable fabric, it is recommended to act in this scenario:

1. Immediately before cutting, wash, dry and iron the fabric, so you can avoid its shrinkage already in the finished form.
2. Since the corner sofa has a special design, it is necessary to carve out more rectangles.
3. Then follow the pattern that we used to sew the cloak for a regular sofa.
4. To ensure that all seams are smooth and clear, you should sew them from the inside and process them with a non-woven tape.
5. If you want the canvas to sit firmly, make a zipper on the back.

Even with furniture of non-standard dimensions, you can update or decorate it, because now you know how to sew a blanket on a corner sofa with your own hands. The master class described in this section is quite simple to perform, but the result will certainly amaze you.

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Armrest Covers

As a rule, when buying new furniture with expensive and high-quality upholstery, you no longer have to hide it under layers of all kinds of bedspreads. It is not in vain that we spend a lot of time on shopping trips, viewing a huge number of catalogs with the aim of arranging the color of the upholstery with flooring and wallpaper. Therefore, in such cases, it remains to take care of protecting the most vulnerable and constantly polluting parts, that is, the armrests.

If you know how to sew covers on upholstered furniture with your own hands, then there is a unique opportunity to change them as often as pillowcases on pillows. Given that almost all armrests are rounded, loose fabric constantly slides from them. In this case, it is recommended:

• Use a standalone mount with a braid or elastic band sewn to the sides or tied to a bow.
• Velcro is also suitable as fasteners.

In fact, everything is quite simple: according to the size of the armrests, it is necessary to carve out the same parts, process them and sew them using a sewing machine.

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Elastic Couch Covers

Covers on sofas and armchairs with elastic, made of carefully selected fabric, are considered the most convenient, durable and effective in terms of protecting upholstery. Basically, this type of fastening is used on bedding, but in this case it will also come in handy.

The rubber band must be sewn into the lower part of the finished cover - it will help the fabric to stay in place, even if several people sit down on the sofa at once.

Important! The main advantage of elastic bands is the ability to take off or put on a cloak at any time to wash or clean.

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Using the given master classes and ideas, you can make a cover on the sofa with your own hands without sewing or using a sewing machine. The main thing is to choose the right fabric, make a high-quality pattern, work through each seam, take care of a reliable method of fastening the finished product.