Help to make curtains & chair covers

gingababe

Hi Guys

I wonder if anyone can help me or point me in the right direction, I am updating the decor in my kitchen/dining & want to make some new curtains (thought this the easier option as I currently have a roller blind) & would like to make some material covers for my chair.

I would be very grateful if anyone could help me or like I say point me in the direction of patterns.


Thanks

Ginga

pamplemousse

l usually find it easier to unpick an old chair cover and press it flat and make a pattern from it and sew it back again if you need it and of course its free

gingababe

That would be easy & thanks for that , but I haven`t got any old ones to unpick.....
do you think a shabby chic blind would be easier ????
Thanks
Ginga

morwenna

What sort of chair are you covering?

susank

If you make paper patterns for the chairs by pinning papers together when they are cut to size till you get it right and then it will be easy to cut out a pattern in the material and sew it together for the chairs.

meanmarie

Thanks for that Susan...have two nice wing chairs which badly need covering...will try the newspaper idea as it would cost me a fortune to have them done professionally.

Marie

Dobie

I've just made blinds for my bathroom & landing windows & they were very easy. I got the idea from some blinds I saw in a pub the other weekend.

I've just tried to write down how I did it but it's too difficult. It makes it sound really complicated but it isn't. I'll ask my DH to take some pictures so I can post them & you'll get the idea just from looking at them.

gingababe

morwenna wrote: »

What sort of chair are you covering?

I want to make a lose cover to put over my dining chairs....

However I haven`t got any on there at the mo.....

Thanks for All your help
Ginga

gingababe

Dobie wrote: »

I've just made blinds for my bathroom & landing windows & they were very easy. I got the idea from some blinds I saw in a pub the other weekend.

I've just tried to write down how I did it but it's too difficult. It makes it sound really complicated but it isn't. I'll ask my DH to take some pictures so I can post them & you'll get the idea just from looking at them.

That would be fab if you could....

Thanks & I look forward to your photos

Ginga

morwenna

gingababe wrote: »

I want to make a lose cover to put over my dining chairs....

However I haven`t got any on there at the mo.....

Thanks for All your help
Ginga

Dining chair covers are best thought of as rectangles. One for the back of the chair, a long one that covers the front of the back - IYSWIM -the seat and then down to the floor and two at the sides, seat to floor again. Does that make sense?

purpleivy

When I first started doing things like that I went to the library and got books out to help with method and calculating fabrics, how much extra to get for mataching fabs and so on.