Making own sofa covers? Is it easy?

zippychick

Hi Jodie

Hope you are able to make something - i take my hat off to you for thinking about trying

A couple of older threads which may help

Making own sofa covers, is it easy?

Cleaning removable sofa covers

Dying sofa covers

Other links

My new slipcover

Step by step how to make a loose cover

let us know how you get on and I'll merge this later with the first link

Zip:A

Bigjenny

Hi Jodie

Have you tried Googling "Ikea Klippan Covers". There are several sites that seem to make or sell them.

HTH

gorgeous_gwen

Despite my longings for a couple of new sofas for the living room, I have admitted to myself it's not a priority right now

However... My plan is to super-clean the sofa and armchair we have (in retrospect, beige was not the best colour choice when DS was a baby!) and either buy or make some kind of slip-on covers in a super-dooper colour to brighten up the living room.

I'm not the craftiest of people so I doubt my abilities to make some myself. Can anyone recommend anywhere I can get this done at a bargainous price? I'd really like to make some myself but I swear I'd end up sewing the covers to my trouser legs or similar: not that I've ever done anything like that before, I promise:o

mumto1_2

Good ones arent' cheap... (can be more than a new sofa!) but you might find someone that can sew them for you. Expect, tho, to pay a couple of hundred incl. fabric..... commercial ones can be thousands!

rachbc

yes my money saving plan of buying an old sofa and getting it re upholstered has turned out to be not that money saving - £800 NOT inc 22m of fabric for a sofa and 2 chairs - though that does inc new cushions, springs etc. and I love the 30's shape much more the anything on the highstreet.

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I have a three seater sofa and two arm chairs that I had made for me by my friends husband when he was in the trade in 1977.including the double bed pull out inside it cost me £278.00. About ten years ago the covers started looking a bit past it and I saw an advert for Plumbs covers.Sometimes they advertise in magazines .A chap came and I had them made to measure for around £199.00.
Two years ago I got rid of the armchairs as I wanted a bit more room and had bought a reclining chair .My sofa however is still looking good and my covers come off every six months for washing in the machine.I have been so pleased that although my sofa is 33 years old I wouldn't part with it now as its almost like an old friend and still very comfortable.The sofa has six seperate cushions and on each arm there is a rest that is also removable .All of these have removable and washable covers .I must say the service was excellent and the quality of the covers ,bearing in mind I have had seven grandchildren who at some time or another have been clambering around on them, they are still as good as new .I would reccomend this company as the service was great.They are not the thin nylon type ones that were made but quite thick material.But they wash up brilliantly in the washing machine and dry well on the washing line on a blowy day

mumto1_2

I've just looked on their website and as they make to measure, they dont' have a price list on there, but 1 sofa cover with the fabric on sale costs from £188 - was £419 (if it's ever on regular price). So still can be more than buying a new sofa if you have sofa + 2 chairs covered - could easily be £500. I got my new sofa + 2 chairs - with newly made covers - for £75 from a charity shop. It was a staff member's in-laws' suite but then they decided to change colours in their lounge. *rolls eyes* the new covers were less than a year old.

mumto1_2

Could you just buy a large throw or several and put that over your suite? They are quite cheap on ebay.

spike7451

When I moved into my apartment a few years back,I got the old 3 piecer from my parent's but was always looking to bin the sofa as it's too long for my living room.My neighbor downstairs was getting a new sofa bed for his living room & gave me his old one,only a couple years old.
So I went to Wyse Buys & picked up a large throw to go over it,which can double as a top blanket if needed.

Wee_Jo

I am also thinking about this as when we bought our flat there was already a sofa here, which was fab as we didn't have to buy one, but the colour is a sort of beige-y neutral, which isn't what I have planned for the living room (when we can eventually get round to redecorating it!) - so it would be my ultimate ambition to make new covers for it!! I say ultimate, as in a "far away in the distance" ambition. In the meantime, I am trying hard to love, in the words of Billy Connolly, our "wee beige jobbie".