Custom Slipcovers Made Easy: Weekend Projects to Dress Up Your Dcor [Hardcover]

Elizabeth Dubicki (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2008

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:

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  Choosing a style of slipcover and appropriate fabric for your project
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  How to measure and calculate yardage
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  Making welting, cushion covers, slipcover shells, skirts and zipper closures
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  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

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Krause Publications (January 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0896895181
• ISBN-13: 978-0896895188
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 9.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #59,614 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #13 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > How-to & Home Improvements > Furniture
  • #75 in Books > Arts & Photography > Fashion

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37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Learning book, January 18, 2009

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B. J. Weir (Joliet, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Custom Slipcovers Made Easy: Weekend Projects to Dress Up Your Dcor (Hardcover)

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!

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to understand, May 8, 2010

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Happy Mom (GA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Custom Slipcovers Made Easy: Weekend Projects to Dress Up Your Dcor (Hardcover)

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.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for beginners like me, August 8, 2010

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Theresa D. Jameson - See all my reviews

This review is from: Custom Slipcovers Made Easy: Weekend Projects to Dress Up Your Dcor (Hardcover)

The directions and photos are very simple and easy to use. This is the perfect book for me as a beginner!