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Alison Wormleighton (Author)


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August 14, 2003
S-t-r-e-t-c-h decorating budgets! Revitalize home furnishings! Stylish, versatile, and inexpensive slipcovers transform dated furniture with minimal expenditure and limited technical skill. They offer the option of shopping consignment stores, flea markets, and yard sales with the assurance that it is possible to coordinate with existing decor, regardless of established fabrics, patterns, and colors.

Slipcover Style presents the inspiration and the technical know-how to create 26 fantastic new covers for chairs, sofas, stools, deckchairs, beds, and tables. Offers step-by-step instructions and detailed diagrams, and features beautiful photographs of finished projects for inspiration. Includes a section explaining all the essential sewing and finishing techniques needed to successfully complete each project.

* Revitalize home decor with 26 easy-to-make projects * Create classic and contemporary slipcovers for chairs, sofas, beds, and tables

* Presents clear step-by-step instructions and illustrations



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Alison Wormleighton is a freelance writer and editor. She has written and edited numerous books on soft furnishings, needlecrafts, and interior design, including six Country Living titles and five Laura Ashley titles.

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First Sentence:
A SLIPCOVER IS THE PERFECT WAY to transform a faded, worn, or out-of-date chair or sofa. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pieces for that seam, redraw any seamlines, boxing strip, pin the outside back, cover from the chair, main skirt, single ruffle, back gusset, cutaway area, turn the cover right side, piping foot, seam allowance, inward corner, pin the seat, inverted pleats, bias binding, skirt side, box cushions, distance from seat, small pleats, main fabric, outward corner, piping cord, decorator fabric, hand baste
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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