Custom Slipcovers Made Easy: Weekend Projects to Dress Up Your DTcor

by Elizabeth Dubicki

Overview

Easy Slipcovers? Absolutely!
Do you have the sewing skills, but aren't quite sure you can handle a full-blown slipcover project? Then Custom Slipcovers Made Easy is for you!

Author Elizabeth Dubicki walks you through the measuring, fitting and construction, step-by-step, to ensure you achieve the results you are looking for.

There's nothing left to guesswork, with chapters on:

   •  Choosing a style of slipcover and appropriate fabric for your project
   •  How to measure and calculate yardage
   •  Making welting, cushion covers, slipcover shells, skirts and zipper closures
   •  Fitting and finishing techniques
Ten project ideas, incorporating more than 25 techniques will help you get started. And once you've mastered the techniques, you'll be transforming your "old favorites" into new favorites!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440221118
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/18/2007
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	14 MB
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About the Author

Elizabeth Dubicki is a regular contributor to Threads, Sew News, and Creative Machine Embroidery magazines, with an extensive background in sewing, crafts, designing, and writing. This former magazine editor is the author of 101 Ways to Use Your First Sewing Machine, and co-author of Decorative Storage, both by Krause Publications.