How to sew covers for beds

How to sew covers for beds

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If on sale there is no cover suitable to interior of your room or the size of bed, it is possible to sew this product independently. Here from you only skills of cut of rectangular parts and making of simple line on the sewing machine will be required.

1. Choose fabric from which you are going to sew cover. Optimum, if its outer end is made of quality beautiful cloth, and the reverse can be made simpler, it is desirable from natural nonskid fabric that the product did not leave bed surface. Besides, you can execute cover in the equipment peychvork, for this purpose previously sew face side from set of color rags.

2. Wash fabric in that mode in what you will process it after you sew cover. It will prevent material shrinkage further.

3. Measure bed. For convenience you can apply the sizes on the schematic image of this subject of interior.

4. Think what form of cover is necessary for you. The simplest option – normal rectangle with the processed edges. You can also complicate task and if the design of bed allows, to sew cover with boards on perimeter. In this case except rectangle of the size of berth surface it will be required to you additional rectangular. Its length corresponds to the sum of lengths of three parties which will be closed by cloth.

5. Cut out material. If there is not enough width of cloth, stitch together two strips of fabric, you watch the direction of thread of basis and duck. If you sew cover with boards, at first stitch together among themselves parts from front fabric and from back. Remember that to the taken measurements it is necessary to add on several centimeters from each party on seams and on linen.

6. Decorate cover surface. You can embroider on it patterns, pristrochit tapes or lace. If you want to make quilted cover, it is better to lay line after the front and back parties are sewed among themselves.

7. Sew among themselves front and back parts. Leave small opening to turn out cover.

8. Decorate edges of cover. You can use decorative ribbon or lace. One more option of processing of edges is registration by means of slanting inlay.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team

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