Corner sofa cover: how to sew? Video
Re-upholstering furniture is time consuming and expensive. You can change the interior of a living room or kitchen much faster if you sew furniture covers. You can even make several covers for each item, then you can turn an everyday room in a matter of seconds into a hall for a celebration, or vice versa. Sewing a cover for a corner sofa is no more difficult than for a regular sofa, but you need to carefully measure all the details, especially the upper parts of the seat. It is better to take a fabric that keeps its shape well.
Sewing starts with a pattern
To sew a cover that will cover your sofa, you need to take measurements. Measure the width of the seat, the length of the seat on the outside and around the back, the height and thickness of the back, and the height of the sofa. Add 5-10 cm to each measurement so that the cover fits freely. As a rule, the back is bent at right angles, so it will not be difficult to build a pattern. The cover consists of several parts. You should have: – 2 rectangular trapezoids for the upper portions of the seat; – 2 rectangles for the front portions of the seat; – 2 rectangles for the front portions of the backrest; – 2 strips for the upper portions of the backrest; – 2 rectangles for the rear portions of the backrest; – 2 sidewalls.
Most of the details can be cut directly onto the fabric. The exception is the sidewalls, which are best drawn on paper at first.
The sides can be made separately, especially if the sofa has rollers on the sides. Maybe a cover without sidewalls
Constructing rectangles is not difficult. The sides of the piece for the front of the seat are equal to the height of the sofa from the floor to the top of the seat and the length of the seat. For the front parts of the back, rectangles are needed with a width equal to the height of the back. Their length is equal to the length of the side of the sofa – and so on. You need to carefully consider the construction of trapezoids. They are rectangular. One base of the trapezium is the line along which the seat connects to the backrest, the other is the length of the outer part of the seat. Details are sharpened to each other with beveled sides. As for the sidewalls, for a sofa without bolsters, draw a rectangle with one side equal to the width of the sofa and the other equal to the width of the seat. Attach to this square a strip equal to the height of the back and the width of its side, respectively. You will get something like a “chair” in profile.
A very wide frill and a series of shuttlecocks can replace the sidewall. True, this will take a lot of fabric
It is better to start assembling with those parts that are more difficult to sew together. If the cover is a kind of blanket without side pieces, sweep and sew the upper sections of the seat first. Also connect the rest of the parts in pairs – the front and upper parts of the back, the front of the seat, the rear of the back. Then connect the pairs to each other. Allowances can be ironed onto the side of larger pieces and overcast together.
If there are sidewalls, the order will be slightly different. Sew the back, top, front strips of the back, the top and front of the seat, sew in the sidewall. Do the same with the details of the other half of the cover. Connect the halves of the product together.