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re-working slip covers… or creating the FrankenCouch

by Chloe on April 4th, 2008

My DH and I have been wanting to buy a new couch for awhile now.  Three dogs and a couch that’s older than I am aren’t a pretty combination :-)

We stumbled onto an amazing deal on a couch - almost 75% off, but with one little catch.

It didn’t have a slip cover.

I’ve slip covered chairs before, and felt up to the task (it would definitely be a big job though!)  The salesmen overheard us talking about sewing covers and mentioned that he had some love seat covers in the back room - and would we like them?

Hey, anything to save a week’s worth of sewing!

I cut one end off of both slip covers, and put them on the couch, so they overlapped in the middle.   I hauled out my trusty measuring tape and marked the middle of the couch on the top of the back and the front edge of the couch.  I folded the raw edges inside and pinned, so there was one fold line down the middle of the couch.

I hauled the slip cover off and lugged it to my sewing machine.  I sewed three straight seams, each a quarter inch apart:

Not bad, I only broke one needle!

And here’s what the back of the couch looks like:

The seam is actually straight, but I had to contort myself to take photographs over the dogs.

The couch turned out great, but there’s one little problem…

The dogs have taken it over :-)

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