Custom Slipcovers Made Easy: Weekend Projects to Dress Up Your Décor |  | Author: Elizabeth Dubicki
Publisher: Krause Publications
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 144
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Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 9.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 0896895181
Dewey Decimal Number: 746.95
EAN: 9780896895188
ASIN: 0896895181
Publication Date: January 1, 2008
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Product Description
Includes projects for fashion-conscious sewers who like to be creative and save money using yard sale treasures to mimic expensive designer originals. Helps sewers achieve a customized, and upholstered look with slipcovers. Custom Slipcovers Made Easy features a range of stylish projects to create seasonal "clothing" for furniture that is as practical and durable as grandma's slipcovers. Simple instructions and illustrated techniques enable even first time sewers to learn a new skill to try something new to liven up any living space. The 25 projects cover a wide array of furniture coverings for chairs, sofa sleepers, love seats, items in a child's room and even a custom cover for a dog crate.
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 Great Learning book January 18, 2009
B. J. Weir (Joliet, IL)
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
I have been doing upholstery for myself for years, learned from my Mom, and by doing it myself. I learned many new ways of doing things from this book, that makes it much easier. I'd recommend it to anyone who is a DIY . Enjoy, it will save you a fortune!
Easy to understand May 8, 2010
Happy Mom (GA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I bought both this book and Neubauer's Complete Photo Guide to Slipcovers (CPGS). I prefer this one.
Custom Slipcovers Made Easy is in a spiral binding inside. The outside is hardcover. You can open the book to the page you want to work from, and it will stay open and flat. I love that.
The pictures offer easy directions. Measuring is done on real chairs, muslin covers have dotted lines to show you what to look at, layout directions are shown as are fabric repeats, directions are given for unusually shaped chairs, creative finishes are explained, and the end result is tailored.
The appendix is full of charts to fill in for your particular chair. Charts cover furniture dimensions, cutting chart for shell/cushions/skirts, layout graphs for various fabric widths, yardage yield for bias, and shopping lists. The author even suggests photocopying these.
Additionally, the author writes as though she is speaking to you. The book reads as friendly rather than as a textbook. She encourages you and makes you feel that you will be successful.
Need more information about the author's skills? She writes for Threads, the penultimate sewing magazine IMO.
I may check out CPGS on occasion, but this is the book I will really use.
Slipcovers even I can make! July 26, 2010
Karen Anthony
I took this book out at my library and I looked it over really good. I found the instructions very easy to understand. I have several projects waiting for me and I know this book will let me get them finished. The instructions are very good. I have been holding back on making slipcovers and now I know I can do it.
Custom Slipcovers Made Easy October 26, 2009
C. Collins (Kennesaw, GA USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is wonderful! It gave me information that I needed to know in order to make slipcovers - and make them well!
Helpful book January 5, 2010
Fourier
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
New to slipcovers. Found the directions helpful, especially those for taking step by step measurements. Like the book.
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