Cover on the sofa with your own hands

Pulling furniture is convenient in that it allows you to save impressive amounts of money to buy a new one. But the complete reworking is not always necessary. Sometimes it is quite enough to update the cover. And here it would be nice to think about it: maybe it's worth sewing a cover on the sofa with your own hands, as in many cases it's quite possible for a professional. As a rule, at home, such cases are sewn directly on the couch, cutting off the details according to the measurements taken. The process is creative and requires attention.

How to sew the covers on the sofa with their own hands?

Below we will consider a small and quite accessible master class of making a cover for a sofa with your own hands. If you have a home sewing machine that allows you to work with strong heavy fabrics, even a little skill in the sewing business, be sure to try it at home. To make a cover on the sofa with our own hands, we will take a dense and wear-resistant fabric. This can be a special sofa fabric, and just a sturdy material like Oxford.

1. The first thing we do to make a universal cover on the sofa is to sew our own hands together. This is the very edge that adorns and strengthens the joints. For this we need a string and a basic fabric.
2. We'll cut it in strips. Then we place the string in the middle of the workpiece and we will attach its edge.
3. Fold the braids in half and lay a line. We try to lay it as close as possible to the harness.
4. We received a binding piece, which we will use for all external seams.
5. Our sofa has cushions on the seat. It is with them that we will start making a new cover. The sewing process is incredibly simple: we literally outline the contours of the pillow and cut out the sketch, adding the allowances to the seams.
6. Next, measure the height of the pillow and cut out the part for the side.
7. Cut a long piece for the side. We begin to sew a snake. Divide the width of the side part in half, cut and sew a snake.
8. Next we sew this part with the remaining length of the lateral part.
9. Sew our decorative braid. In parallel we spend the side part with the base of the pillow and get a new cover.
10. Next, we turn to the question of how to sew the main part of the covers on the sofa with their own hands. Sew two large pieces for the backrest. Between them we sew a snake. They will be located on the back of the back so that you can, if necessary, remove the cover and wash it.
11. Cut off the excess part. The snake can be left for now, so that it would be more convenient to sew the second part of the back cover.
12. Sew the second part and now the upper part is ready.
13. Now, to make a cover on the sofa with our own hands, we will have to cut out the part by measuring it and fix it with pins in place.
14. The details of the armrest we first bend around the sides. Next, we cut out the front curved part and again we fasten all the pins in place.
15. Do not forget to immediately strengthen our decorative edge.
16. Similarly, we skirt around the inside of the sofa between the backrest and armrests. Pay attention: in the places where we will put the cover into the inner corners, at the edge of the cut, we make such a cut for the cover, so that the cloth will sit correctly and no stretched areas will form.
17. Next, we will lay the seam at the seam directly over our pins. You can sweep everything first and, turning the cover, make sure that it sits on the sofa correctly and without unnecessary emptiness.
18. As a result, we got a universal removable and quite presentable cover on the sofa, sewn by our own hands. And now you can sew such as for couches with cushions, and without them.