How to sew seat covers for garden furniture. Covers for upholstered furniture with their own hands. Stages of sewing a furniture cover

Kirill Sysoev

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To prevent wear upholstered furniture, extending its service life, use covers for it, which are easily removed, washed, able to transform the look, besides, their price is significantly lower than the cost of new furniture. And those housewives who know how to sew will be able to make a sofa cover with their own hands.

Eurocovers for sofas

Euro covers are produced for upholstered furniture from a special fabric that can take any shape thanks to the rubber threads in its composition. For the first time, their production was debugged by an Italian company, quickly finding its fans all over the world, because it turned out to be a universal and functional protection. Capes are used in cases where a headset that has been in operation for many years has become unattractive, and the purchase of a new one is not expected. Their advantages include:

1. Practicality. Due to the special structure, which has a relief shape, the material gets dirty much less often than ordinary fabric. Therefore, washing is required infrequently.
2. Suitable for washing normal washing machine, program with low water temperature. The upholstery will not lose its original view, keeping the shape.
3. Ease of installation. One person can do it in a few minutes.
4. Elastic material fits perfectly. To do this, you do not need to measure everything, adjusting to a millimeter. Therefore, you can even buy in the online store without worrying that the model will not be suitable.

Eurocovers can become an element of the interior when, having decided to change the design of the room, you would like to save on the purchase of a new headset. All old furniture can be easily updated by choosing capes for them that are suitable in color and texture. For their tailoring, the following fabrics are used:

• chenille with plush for durable products that can stretch;
• jacquard, characterized by strength and durability, is used for daily protection;
• pleated, having a springy texture;
• microfiber perfectly stretches, suitable for large headsets;
• artificial leather;
• fur (natural or artificial).

Eurocovers for corner sofas

For corner sofas, as well as for furniture unusual shape, will ideal option eurocovers for furniture. Sew them - difficult task. However, you can buy a dimensionless version that can easily take on even the most bizarre shape. The thing can be used with any model, size, with or without armrests, with protrusions on either side. Due to its elasticity and extensibility, such a product will easily fit furniture, the size of which significantly exceeds the size of the product itself.

Sofa cover with elastic

An alternative to European ones are stretch sofa covers with an elastic band, which are simply stretched, held with a sewn-in elastic band. Such a thing can be done by yourself or ordered in any studio. Internet craftswomen offer patterns of models that can be easily removed, erased, but may not be suitable for every type of upholstered furniture. For example, problems may arise with tailoring a product for an unusually shaped sofa. For other headsets, it remains only to choose suitable color, To obtain original thing in your interior.

Universal sofa cover

They call the product universal because the same model can be bought for absolutely different designs and sizes of upholstered furniture. You do not even need to know the exact dimensions, because these furniture covers are dimensionless, elastic due to a double layer of special fabric, and have a special tailoring. However, when choosing for a corner or option without armrests, you need to take into account some nuances.

Tailoring of covers for sofas to order

There are various video tutorials on the Internet on how to sew a sofa cover yourself. To do this, measurements are taken, a pattern is drawn up on paper, a test sample is made from the fabric you do not need. Those who do not have the free time or skills to sew a sofa cover can always entrust it to professionals. This service, including models of corner, triple and sofa beds, is offered by many ateliers. You will only have to choose a model, material for tailoring, which are presented in the catalog.

Covers for the sofa and armchairs with their own hands photo.

Sofa covers, chair covers, chair covers have become very fashionable these days. Removable covers for upholstered furniture not only keep the upholstery clean, but also have a number of other features. useful benefits for example, the ability to easily and inexpensively change the design of furniture. Look at the photo how easy it is to turn any piece of furniture into a work of art that matches the overall design of the room using furniture covers. Sewing covers allows you to transform your old sofa completely into new furniture covered with a fabric of the color and quality you need.
Perhaps the most important advantage of covers is their low cost compared to the cost of reupholstering a sofa. It is enough to buy a few meters of fabric, get a sewing machine out of the closet, make a pre-exact pattern, and sew a cover on the sofa with your own hands.
Fabrics, of course, for sewing covers, whether it is an ordinary one and a half sleeping or corner sofa, you need not so little. Not less than 8 meters, so it is better to use very inexpensive ones, the main thing is that the covers are easy to wash and iron. Of course, it is desirable that covers for furniture were also quite strong and dense, did not leave puffs, especially if you are protecting the upholstery of a sofa or chair from your pets.

1. Sofa cover. Calculation of fabric for tailoring

For sewing a sofa cover, a fabric of about 8 meters is required. But in order to more accurately calculate the consumption, you need to measure the length of the sofa and the width. A rough calculation looks like this: 2 sofa lengths + 2 sofa widths. As a result, if the sofa is 160 cm wide and 200 cm long, then you will need 7.2 meters of fabric (150 cm wide). But this is just a guideline so that you can calculate how much the fabric will cost and what kind buy for 2000 rubles. meter or all the same for 200 rubles.
It is difficult to make an accurate calculation without experience. It is necessary to carefully measure all sections and details, draw them in a reduced form on paper, make a layout taking into account the shared line.
Fabrics with geometric pattern, especially in stripes, will significantly increase consumption, since they can only be cut in a certain direction. It is best to use monochromatic furniture fabrics, or, in extreme cases, with a small pattern. In any case, add another 0.5 - 1 meter to any of your calculation of fabric consumption for a sofa. It will not be superfluous, let it remain to replace worn sections.

2. Covers for furniture. How to make a pattern

If the sofa is of a standard rectangular shape, or even an angular one, but of the usual rectangular shape, then the pattern is easier to make. Having accurately measured each of the details of the sofa, you need to place them on graph paper, on a scale, taking into account the direction of the cut (share line). In the future, transfer all these calculations to the fabric, making markings with chalk on the wrong side. When cutting, be sure to take into account allowances for seams, hem, etc. It is impossible to give exact recommendations on how to make a pattern of sofa covers. Each sofa is a special case And the option of tailoring a cover for him will be his own. We can only give a few tips to avoid simple mistakes.
Well, for example, it is better to make a pattern with large allowances, and after trying on, adjust these allowances by cutting them with scissors.
The more accurate (dense) you build the pattern, the more likely it is to make a mistake when sewing a furniture cover. The sofa only looks like rectangular shapes. In fact, its forms are very complex, guess them exact calculation impossible. Even at the factory, furniture upholstery is not sewn in advance according to an exact pattern, but is fitted by workers, fixing the stretched edges with bartacks. Therefore, do not try to exactly repeat the shape of your sofa with the help of an "exact" pattern. It is better to make a more free-form sofa cover, as in the photo, the main purpose of which is to change appearance, and not drag the fabric upholstery of the sofa.

Use all sorts of decorative bows, ribbons and belts. They are good at diverting attention from failed places and perfectly complement overall design rooms and additionally decorate the furniture cover sewn by you.
Additional numerous decorative pillows are also able to help hide many "failed" details and are very convenient to use. It is very easy to sew them, just like a pillowcase, and you can “stuff” them with anything, up to the scraps of fabric left over from the cut of the sofa covers.
To prevent your beloved cats from digging into the leather upholstery of the sofa even through the covers, you can install thin foam rubber inside the covers, which is easy to buy at any decent household goods store.
When sewing, use strong and reinforced threads. The cover will experience a lot of stress on the seams, especially if the pattern turned out to be very tight and the cover will stretch a lot. You can even stitch twice in such places.
The most best car for sewing covers - an old grandmother's PMZ machine with a manual drive. If you don’t have such a machine, then we would not recommend sewing thick furniture fabric on a household machine. In extreme cases, in two layers, well, three, no more. Think about how to make connections of parts to avoid such "crossings". Can make all parts separately without connecting to each other.
Do not immediately buy expensive fabric. Sewing covers correctly the first time does not work. This is a very complex and skilled work. Sometimes, even for a specialist, it is much easier to sew a dress for the most non-standard figure than sofa covers. First, sew a cover for a sofa or chair in the country from simple fabrics, and only then take hold of covers for furniture standing in the living room of your house.

Case functions

Chair covers solve several problems: functional, protective, aesthetic. They can be for holidays and special occasions, everyday and even seasonal. Moreover, furniture covers are back in fashion today. Capes are often used in the living room, dining room, children's rooms. This is great way protect new furniture from dirt and damage (for example, from pet scratches), and if the chairs have lost their former aesthetics, they can easily be dressed in beautiful covers.

Interior style and textiles for covers: creating a harmonious composition

To sew a cover with your own hands, you will need about two meters of fabric. Agree, it is much cheaper than buying new furniture, especially since in this way you can emphasize the style of the interior. So, covers made of cotton material are appropriate in country or Provence interiors.

AT English style Capes with buttons or stripes look organic.

Coarse burlap covers are a great option for eco-style.

And to give the interior a modern touch is suitable denim and it goes well with wood.

In design classic interiors it is better to use noble ceremonial cases. They give an aristocratic accent appropriate for the style. Here you need to choose a fabric of a calm shade.

The highlight of the design of thematic events and holidays will be covers of the appropriate design.

On a note: give preference to dense and strong fabrics that can withstand constant washing and stress. This is especially true for chairs in the kitchen and dining room.

Types of chair covers

• covers that fit tightly on chairs;
• covers-capes;
• loose covers.

The first type is more difficult to perform than the others. Required here professional approach for tailoring according to strictly measured patterns.

For wedding or holiday covers, the other two types are perfect, especially if the chairs different forms. As a decor, you can also use bows, brooches, organza, ribbons. There is a wide field for imagination. We can say that loose covers and covers-capes are universal.

Choosing a fabric

Not all textiles are suitable for covers. It should be quite dense and look elegant. Most popular:

• crepe satin is a great option for creating folds, gathers and a spectacular look;
• supplex or lycra - dense, elastic fabric, stretches well in all directions;
• gabardine - despite the fact that the fabric is quite thin, it has excellent elasticity and density.

Keep in mind that to create a harmonious interior, chair covers should be combined in style and color with a tablecloth and curtains.

How to sew chair covers with your own hands?

Of course, you can turn to the master with this task, but if you already decide to sew the cover yourself, listen to our tips and recommendations.

It is not necessary to use expensive textiles. Old curtains or a tablecloth are perfect. The most important thing is to make the pattern correctly. To do this, you need to take accurate measurements - determine the widest and narrowest sections, draw a diagram and mark them in the figure. It is very important to take into account the shrinkage of the fabric and leave about 3 mm for seam allowances.

It is necessary to measure the length, width of the chair, the depth of the seat, as well as the width of the seat and back. Exist different variants cases, so before you start, you should determine which one is best for you. Cases are available for:

• seat and back (separate and solid);
• only on the back;
• only on the seat.

As for design and decor, here you need to start from stylistic direction interior, as well as for what purposes the covers will be used - only on holidays or for every day.

Dressing up chairs in “dresses”: an original master class

Covers with puffy skirts will add a special flair to the usual dining room or living room. We offer to sew them with your own hands. So get ready:

• sewing machine;
• main fabric light shade(cotton, tapestry or linen);
• additional fabric for the seat of the future cover (in our example, a blue tapestry);
• scissors, thread;
• sketch pad;
• ruler or centimeter.

Step 1. Measurements and sketch.

It is important to take into account the shape and dimensions of the seat, the width and height of the backrest, the length of the cover from the seat to the floor, the height of the legs.

Step 2 Sewing the seat.

Taking into account the measurements, we cut out a fragment of the contour, leaving 2 spare centimeters on each side.

Step 3. Tailoring the skirt

We cut out a long strip from the fabric, the width of which will be equal to the distance from the seat to the floor, and the length will be three times the width of the chair, so that this strip can completely cover the bottom of the chair in front. This is the base of the skirt.

We sew frills from two strips of fabric to the base. Each of them makes up 2/3 of the base. To get a uniform or curly fold, you can put the fabric on the curtain tape and just pull the strings.

Step 4. Sewing the back of the cover

The first photo clearly shows the design of the back: in fact, the pattern consists of 3 parts that need to be sewn, not forgetting the allowances. We cut out the back and front of the back, as well as a frill - a kind of train, which is sewn by analogy with frills on the front skirt.

The train can be made a frill in one tier, or you can maintain an exact line and make it a two-tier one.

Step 5. Connecting the back and seat

We combine the front of the back with the front of the seat and stitch. We also stitch the details of the skirt.

Tip: To create a shabby chic aesthetic, it's best to leave the edges of the frills raw, fluffing them up even more.

Voila - an elegant cover is ready. Sew a couple more of the same to make a “ceremonial ensemble” and embellish the living room for a dinner party.

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Sewing a replacement sofa cover is great alternative replacing old upholstery. Plus, the covers are removable so they can be washed. Sew a few covers and change them from season to season or for the occasion. Your furniture will be reliably protected from dust and salting. It will retain the natural color of the upholstery for a long time and will not be damaged by the claws of pets.

Check out our range of sofa covers that you can make yourself.

When choosing fabrics for a cover, you can come up with unexpected combinations and different types finishes.

Follow our instructions and you can easily change the style and mood of your living room.

The cover consists of three elements: a lining, a cruciform upper part and decorative elements on the corners of the sofa. The upper part of the cover in the photo below is made of tapestry fabric, which contrasts with the iridescent silk of the corner elements.

We build a cover pattern

Start with four basic measurements: the length of the cover, the width, the length of the armrests and their width.

Taking measurements

For the top of the case:

1. To determine the length of the cover, the sofa is measured from front to back, starting from the floor in front of the sofa and ending with the floor behind the back, plus 25-30 cm for a loose fit, plus hem allowances.
2. To determine the width of the cover, the sofa seat plus seam allowances are measured.
3. The length of ONE armrest is measured from the seat through the armrest to the floor plus 25-30 cm for a loose fit, plus hem allowances.
4. To determine the width of the armrest, measure the width of the sofa seat plus seam allowances.

For lining:

Length = the length of the cover according to paragraph 1 above.
Width = cover width (item 2 above) plus two armrest lengths (item 3 times 2), minus 2 hem allowances.

Sewing Tips:

Lay the details of the cover on the sofa inside out, determine the places for sewing the side parts (armrests) and baste them to the central part.

Lining

Cover design option

Elegant case with top from brocade

In order to prevent the fabric of the cover from “wrinkling” when you sit on it, prepare wooden rods equal to 5/8 of the length/width of the sofa and deepen them between the seat and backs. If the sides of the sofa are curved, use tap water for the same purpose. PVC pipe the appropriate length, bending it into the desired shape.

Our version of sewing a cover for a sofa, consisting of a lining and a top, allows you to choose the fabric for decorating the sofa that you like, but it is not enough to sew a one-piece cover. For example, cuts of old fabrics.

Corner decoration

The corners of the cover can be designed in different ways, carefully choosing accessories, and get impressive results. Use our ideas to start fantasizing!

Not only to ennoble old furniture, knowledge is needed how to sew a sofa cover but also in order to keep new purchase, especially if the base upholstery of the sofa itself is not too wear-resistant. In addition, the manufacture of such a coating can be attributed to a variety, since with a textile transformation, absolutely any furniture can be brought into line with the chosen style of the interior of the apartment, moreover, without buying overly expensive furniture sets.

How to sew sofa covers with your own hands

Definitely apply knowledge how to sew sofa covers maybe those of us who, in principle, know how to handle a needle and thread at a good level and are good at handling dense fabrics. Help, of course, sewing machine and other useful sewing tools, but the bulk of the work will still need to be done by hand. In addition, an important and necessary skill will be to build patterns on your own, since turnkey solution it is on your sofa you are unlikely to be lucky to find.

The easiest way to practice is to take an already existing cape, which may have been bought in ancient times, rip it into separate parts and transfer them to an already new fabric. But this is not always possible, so you still have to train by other methods. The craftsmen also offer us to make a trial product using the lessons how to sew a sofa cover with which are posted on many handicraft blogs, both foreign and domestic. For a trial product, the cheapest and most affordable fabric is selected, which it will not be a pity to use. Details from it are sewn to each other with the help of simple stitches, the main thing is to check how much they all fit together in size and how tightly they sit on the furniture. After the test drive is completed, the test product is ripped open and all its parts are used for cutting on a more expensive fabric, as parts of a pattern on a 1:1 scale. Then, after use, you can put this fabric on a pillowcase for or for other needs.

Most simple options among all master classes - how to sew a sofa cover without armrests, Such small items furnishings are very popular for furnishing country houses or for children, moreover, the armrests may well replace them with small tightly stuffed ones. The cape in this case will be of a very simple form, and frills and flounces are used for decor, which are sewn on the underside of the furniture.

It is this model that is also used to create standard garden ones, which definitely need a cover, since they always stand in the open air and often get dirty.

How to sew a cover on sofas, an armchair

Standard procedure should start with a measurement, whatever you plan to do. This is also used in how to sew a sofa cover or even chairs. After all, we all saw elegant chair capes at ceremonial banquets, and all of the methods listed below can be used in that. The simplest but very effective way build a pattern - draw your chair or sofa and break it into simple rectangles. If the product is small, then you can use one rectangle of fabric for the back and for the seat, but in most cases you will have to cut these parts separately.

Using the dimensions of all the rectangles, transfer them to special pattern paper. It has an adhesive base, so working on it will be much more convenient than pinning tracing paper with pins to the surface of the fabric. Between all the rectangles you need to leave allowances, the value of which will be 5-6 centimeters, depending on how confident you are in your sewing skills. You can always cut off extra centimeters in the process of finishing joining parts. The process is not too creative, in fact, and is very reminiscent of a task, with your own hands - the same strict geometric shapes and simple seams. This stage of the process how to sew a sofa cover photo, found on the Web, you will be illustrated in sufficient detail.

Sew all the cut out rectangles to each other with the seams outward and try on the furniture you need. You will see if the canvas is tight, if you need to release the seam more somewhere, and somewhere, on the contrary, you can hem it so that the fit is perfect. Only after such a fitting, you can already proceed from the outline to the full stitching of all the details.

How to sew a cover on a corner sofa

Before touching the topic how to sew a cover for a corner sofa, we must talk about such an important aspect as choosing the right fabric for this purpose. After all, in fact, not every one is suitable for becoming a convenient and practical cape, and not every one will be able to work effectively right the first time.

It is believed that two extremes cannot be used - too light a fabric that requires additional processing and poorly holding shape in itself, as well as heavy upholstery fabric, which are used directly for the production of furniture. To lightweight materials include, first of all, satin, chiffon, rayon. No matter how beautiful capes made of such materials look, it’s better to leave them to create dresses, it’s impractical and difficult to manufacture. And here upholstery many people mistakenly consider it ideal precisely because it is used on furniture production to cover structures, which means that it must also be used for covers. But after all, the upholstery is fixed on the surface with the help of a furniture stapler, carnations, it is well pulled literally piece by piece. So this fabric is absolutely not elastic, you can not pull it yourself on each armrest, and in fact from time to time you will have to remove the product for washing and cleaning. That is why it is better to choose the golden mean - a dense, medium elasticity material, preferably with a special impregnation that will allow the furniture surface to remain clean as long as possible. Before opening, it is desirable to wash, dry and iron any fabric in order to provide for possible shrinkage of the finished product, which can ruin all your work after the first wash.

A feature of the corner sofa is that we will need to cut out a few more rectangle parts. If we compared the previous procedure with sewing half-shells, then this one can be equated with the ability to make, that is, the shape remains geometrically correct, but each part consists of several. You can see the instruction How to sew slipcovers for a corner sofa. A photo demonstrate what the layout should be in order to pack all right angles.

It is worth spending more time and sewing each seam, process it with non-woven tape from the inside so that it is clear and even, only then you will get the perfect geometry for the sofa complex shape and it won't look like a veil has been thrown over it and spread a little around the edges. To make the fabric fit more tightly, you can provide a zipper on the back of the sofa to make it easier to remove and put on the fabric again.

How to sew sofa armrest covers

Often, if you have already bought furniture with high-quality and expensive upholstery, you do not want to hide it under layers of bedspreads and other materials. It’s not for nothing that you ran around all the shops in the city and looked through hundreds of catalogs, trying to combine the color of the upholstery with wallpaper or flooring. Therefore, you may want to protect only the most vulnerable and quickly dirty parts, such as armrests.

Moreover, if you know how to sew sofa armrest covers, then you can change them as often as pillowcases sofa cushions, timing a new upholstery, for example, for Halloween, with pumpkins or black cats, having chosen a fabric with small cockerels and chickens, and not Valentine's Day - with hearts and flowers.

Since the armrests themselves are quite rounded, the fabric with it can peel off very quickly if it is not fixed. In a large case, the parts hold each other, but here you need to provide for an autonomous mount. For it, you can use an elastic band or ribbons that are sewn on the sides and tied to bows, which is additional decorative element. In addition, you can use Velcro as fasteners, but it is better to always put them under the bottom of the armrest, since the Velcro will get very dirty from above with constant contact and will have to be changed often.

How to sew a cover on a sofa with an elastic band

We are already accustomed to a convenient elastic fastening, which is used, in particular, for the manufacture bed linen. You can use this technology and learn, how to sew a cover on a sofa with an elastic band.

A rubber band is sewn into the bottom of the already sewn cover and it is she who helps to keep the fabric in place even when several people sit on the seat. The undoubted advantage of elastic bands for fastening is that ready product can be put on and taken off the sofa for cleaning and washing in just a matter of seconds.

You can find such products in master classes by the name that was assigned to them in the "folklore" - eurocover. In fact, such specific products made of elastic material were once produced by the Italian factory Ga.i.Co., in the image and likeness of which covers other manufacturers began to produce products. But since this is a rather expensive purchase, the craftswomen also learned to do such things on their own, especially since the elastic wrinkled fabric, which is ideal for this, is also not a problem today to buy in a fabric store or order via the Internet.

Since the fabric is quite elastic, it is sewn according to a general pattern without division into small individual parts. And after the front and back parts are sewn, the stretch fabric is simply stretched over the surface of the sofa, tucked a little into the gaps between the seat, back and armrests to form the appearance of the furniture, and hangs down with a pretty fringe.