My slipcovers

Pink and Polka Dot is having a slipcover party today and I thought I’d join.

Love my favorite Friday parties: Show and Tell Friday at My Romantic Home and Furniture Feature Friday at Miss Mustard Seed’s. I’m pretty sure slipcovers meet the furniture criteria, since they go over furniture!

I love slipcovers and having been making them for my home for the last 2 years. It’s all part of my WHITE & LIGHT project that I’ve been working, for 2 years! I’m no expert and every one I make I learn a little more through trial and error. I got so many more chairs, etc. I hope to slipcover, if only I had more time!

Here’s a few of more projects, click on the link to see the original posts.

6 white linen monogrammed dining room chairs:

More white linen slipcovers

Slipcover in white cotton duck for sofa:

Hooked on slipcovers

Off white cotton ruffled chair:

2 parsons chairs with slips:

Sewing slipcovers

Ruffle white linen slip on a ladder-back chair:

White Linen ruffled slipcover

I have SLIPITIS really bad, there’s no cure. I’m planning to slip just about everything in my home!

Hooked on SEWING SLIPCOVERS

Thanks Julia for another HOOKED ON FRIDAY’S PARTY.

I’m finally motivated to finish some of my sewing projects. I have a huge block of time (2 weeks) to be home and undisturbed. I don’t have a sewing room, sniff, sniff, so I make use of the dining room table for cutting and pinning. And what a mess it all makes. I started these projects months ago, had to put everything away due to company and all the traveling that I had to do.

So the mess starts here then travels to the laundry room where sewing machine is set up and of course the ironing board lives.

I’m working on the canvas duck slipcover for this red sofa in a small room. Yes, threads are everywhere, as I walk back and forth through rooms. This is a very simple slipcover, intended to be loose and IMPERFECT! HA…. that is quite easy to achieve!

It worked out that one whole piece covers the back and the front, so I didn’t make extra work cutting and stitching where these 2 pieces would normally be stitched together with cording. The back cushions are so big and comfy that they hid this, so why make extra work?

This is the bottom where bottom cushions sit being pinned to the front where top cushions sit. The bottom panel is not the duck canvas, I want to save any extra duck in case I need to make a new cushion cover or two. So I used a cotton $1.00 yard from Wal-Mart, it does not show.

Pinning the panels for the side arms, this took many trips to the sewing room and back to get them as tight as possible.

See how loose this one is below, fixed it a few times to make it snugger.

I still have 2 bottom cushions left to cut and sew, and the skirt needs to designed and attached. I’m debating to go ruffle, tailored, or the easy way out….heavy off-white cotton bullion fringe. Here’s how it looks, I should finish cushions today, hopefully.

Love the difference, good bye red, hello white!

Made these pillows earlier in the week. The natural flax linen look material came from Wal-Mart, it’s cotton and was CHEAP. I stenciled on the white design with fabric paint.

Very happy with these…material for 2 pillows…$4.00, stencil was $4.99 from Michael’s.

Still got to finish the white linen slips, back to work.

I’ll be sewing for at least another week if I can stand the threads and mess!