The cover on the armchair with your own hands can fullyChange the appearance of the room and hide the shabby, worn out or inappropriate color of the silhouette of the old chair. To make it at home from the remaining fabric, specially bought decorative cloth or still not used dense curtains today can any housewife. This process is quite fast and economical. 
The device layout of the chair. To properly fix the cover on the furniture, it is better to use wide strips of fabric. Strips at one end are sewn to the wrong side of the cover, and the other to the existing upholstery of the chair. For a more dense planting of the product on the chair, you can use pieces of foam that fit between the cover and the cabinet of furniture. It's easier and easier to sew a seat cover with straight perpendicular angles at home, it's much more difficult - with figured and decorative elements. Soft armchairs with open decorative slats are usually tight, but if the wooden elements are only on the armrests, then you can sew the cover on the armchair, after wrapping the wooden pieces of furniture with batting. How to make a cover? To sew a cover is very simple, when there is a desire, accuracy, necessary materials and adaptations.
Materials and tools for work
Scheme removal of measurements from the chair. To sew a cover on an armchair, it is necessary to have:
- decorative fabric;
- cord or braid for edging;
- zipper of the required length;
- the required thickness of upholstery batting;
- thin polyurethane foam;
- sewing machine;
- flexible measuring tape and chalk;
- Pins, furniture nails, buttons or staples with stapler;
- muslin;
- Iron with a steaming function and an ironing board;
- Scissors tailors, ruler, temples, sharply sharpened pencil.
The cover on the chair can have various shapes, butit is always necessary to develop and sew, taking into account the features of furniture and its structural component. As the ideal configuration of the backrest, one can act that which has a straight form, widens or contracts to the top. Such backs hold a short and long boot well. If the chair has a non-standard, shaped back, for it you can sew a decorative short pillowcase that will cover about 1/3 or 2/3 of the back. Back to contents</a>
How to choose a fabric
Scheme tightening the pattern of the cover. It is better and more practical to make a cover on an armchair from a dense printed non-fading decorative fabric. Do not use thick heavy furniture fabrics designed for upholstery. Heavy fabrics do not succumb to the machine-like add-on, they are draped and roughly adhere to the bends of furniture. To make the case easier and less laborious, it is better to choose a fabric that does not require a combination of a pattern, for example, a one-color or a fine print across the entire field. With particular care is to choose striped, checkered and ornamented fabric, as they may require alignment of lines in both the horizontal and vertical direction. The expense of the fabric is primarily determined by the size of the chair and its design, and also depends on the width of the fabric, the size of the rapport and the layout of the pattern on the fabric. Typically, a standard soft armchair will require 6.5 to 7.5 m of fabric, and a wide one - from 9.5 to 11 m. And these calculations include edging and assembly with folds at the corners. When buying a fabric, you must take into account the additional consumption of cloth on the ears, decorative assemblies, skirts and creases. In general, the cushion of the chair requires approximately 1 m to 1.5 m of fabric, additional 1 m of fabric for a standard chair and 2 m for a wider model should be added to the assembly and folds. Back to contents</a>
Pattern development
Pattern of a cover for an armchair. Standard cover consists of 4 important components: seat covers and back, armrests and skirts, which descends from seat to floor. To get the exact dimensions of the elements, you should correctly measure the chair. Measure it better with a flexible centimeter. It should be measured:
- height and width of the chair;
- seat and backrest dimensions;
- the sizes of armrests.
When the measurements are taken, you can proceeddeveloping a pattern. The easiest way to do a pattern of the cover on the existing elements of the upholstery of the chair with the help of pins and inexpensive fabric, for example, muslin. Stitches on the cover should be placed in the same places as on the upholstery, but at the same time exclude complex parts and elements that disrupt the ideal fit of the cover. To make a pattern for the inside and front of the back cover, you should accurately measure the length and width of the outer part of the backrest between the seams of the upholstery, and then cut out the details on the muslin, taking into account the allowances. A ready-made pattern should be placed on the surface of the back of the chair and pinned to the upholstery with pins. In this case, it is necessary to smoothly smooth the fabric over the entire surface and prevent its creasing and distortion. When the pattern of the part fits perfectly on the chair, similar operations should be performed with other elements. Back to contents</a>
If the chair has wooden armrests
Scheme of the neck of the chair. If the furniture has wooden armrests, the batting will help them in the manufacture of the case. Handrails of armrests should be wrapped with a thick layer of batting, and then cover them with this material and pratachat from both sides to the seat and back of the chair. This operation will allow to form a soft wide armrest, harmoniously blending into the design of the entire design of the chair. You can fasten batting in the armrest with a furniture stapler. When making patterns for the left and right armrest, two patterns should be made - front and back. To fasten the front pattern of the armrest it is necessary on the front surface of the chair, having folded the fabric in half and marking with its pencil its central longitudinal thread. The lower boundaries of the material must necessarily overlap the specified ruffle seam by 1.5 cm. The inner surface of the armrest pattern should be connected to the front part at the place of the intended outer seam. And its internal surface should have an impressive reserve on all sides, approximately 18-25 cm from each side. This is necessary, since one side will come into the inner surface of the backrest, the other on the front surface of the armrest, and the third on the lower edge of the workpiece placed on the seat. When all parts of the cover, including armrests, will be cut and fastened to the upholstery of the chair, they should be signed, checked for the presence of the necessary darts, folds and assemblies, and then unfastened and removed from the chair. The parts obtained will allow the pattern to be accurately transferred to the fabric and cut. Back to contents</a>
The transfer of pattern on the fabric and cutting
A pattern from muslin should be rationally decomposedon the fabric taking into account the pattern, then pin it to the material and using the chalk, cut the patterns and rulers onto the fabric. If the pattern does not contain allowances for seams, they should be added right now. Then cut the parts. Patterns are well ironed from top to bottom along the longitudinal thread. Before proceeding to join the pattern pieces, they should be spread out on a flat surface and think over the sequence of the joint actions. Initially, it is necessary to sew with the help of a marking seam and sew all small parts, for example, darts or assemblies, with the machine, and then sew and sew large parts. In this case, you do not have to bother with a bulky unmanageable cover. To ensure that the seams are durable and do not diverge, it is better to use a strong nylon thread and an average stitch length of 2.5 cm. Place where thickening from several layers of fabric is encountered is best done with a machine needle of marking 90-14 or 100-16. To places where the cover is subjected to friction, you should add a decorative edge. During the machine stitching of the joints, you can not stretch the fabric and edge. If the overlapping seam overlaps another, remove 1 cm of cord at the end of the edge to prevent thickening. In the back of the back cover, a zipper should be sewn. Additions to the cover on the chair - various cushions and cushions - today are very relevant accessories and are suitable for almost any kind of soft chairs. They are simple and convenient decoration, which can bring a variety in design. Thanks to them you can independently change the look of the chair, make it elegant, bright or, conversely, calm and strict. Make additions to the chair can be made from the fabric from which the cover is made, and from any contrasting cloths of any design and configuration.
