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Recently I was shopping at my local mall and took a stroll through

where I came beyond this sofa forth with a dear seat. What caught my heart wasn't the actual Pottery Barn sofa or fabric but the trim particular – more than specifically that there was none – no covered cord along the cushion and pillow edges. It looked so modern and fresh. I wanted that await for slipcovers I am customizing for my family room.

I bought inexpensive throw fashion covers for my sofa and love seat from SureFit Slipcovers. To brand the throw covers stay put and wait more appealing I am making separate seat and dorsum cushion covers from quilts that I found in the clearance bin.

This ottoman moves all over the room from chair to sofa and it acts every bit the coffee table when needed. When I decided to re-do my family room I knew I could non afford new furniture then I swapped out the seating from my basement and family room for a new look. I liked the simple lines of the sofa and love seat, but not the navy bluish color. Past purchasing the throw style slipcovers I knew I could create a neutral palette to begin making over the room in my desired color scheme and stay within my small budget.

The How-To:

Wash the quilt first for shrinkage. Once dry out and shrunk, I draped a quilt on top of the ottoman and pinned each corner as shown.

Notice the grey fur ball who thinks he is helping me.

Then I sewed a seam and trimmed the excess from each corner.

I clipped each corner so the textile would lay apartment when placed on the ottoman.

And then the cover looked like this.
Ane unmarried line of stitching on each corner seam.

And so I sewed another seam forth each side of the main seam to become the expect that I saw on the Pottery Barn sofa. It was Stitch easy!!! No cord cover to mess with – no bias cut fabric to comprehend the cord, no pins – right up my alley – EASY!

Every seam looks like this now. It resembles a double covered cord, but it is flat.

If you always made a slipcover you know that you have to go along going dorsum and forth between the piece you are working on and your sewing machine. Every time you lot need to fit the cover you place it on the slice within out, fit, pin, and then go back to your machine and sew together. Then echo, echo, echo…until you have a completed slipcover. It is not hard, just lots of back and forth.

Later I had the elevation consummate I only had pieces left of the quilt. Normally to make the skirt I would want one long piece, but since I could not afford to buy another quilt. I decided make the skirt using four pieces. Once I and then cut 4 pieces to size – i to add to each side of the cover to deed as the skirt. I measured the height and added 2″ for the hem.

At present this is where this tutorial goes s – a true cat who shall go nameless decided he needed to aid me out Become IN THE Fashion the residue of the day!

He thinks he is the Rex and this ottoman is his throne. I cannot tell y'all how many times I scooted and pushed him off. Finally I gave upward.

You can kind of see the side pieces that I added in the photo below. Sorry I don't have a more detailed photo.

The top cover is on the ottoman inside out. Each side/skirt slice was measured to fit the side it was going on. I hemmed the sides and bottom of each piece. Once they were set up, I pinned each one to their respective side and then sewed them to the top part of the comprehend. I added the Pottery Barn seaming to these seams also.

Since I pieced the skirt I needed to encompass the ottoman where the skirt sides meet: I sewed a small rectangular slice of quilt to the seam on each corner.

I turned the slipcover correct side out and placed it back on the ottoman.

I still take some tweaking to practice on the corners. I want to add together a button to each corner of the ottoman and a button to supplant the bow ties on the throw slipcover on the chair, just I will take to show yous how I did that in future post.