FOR LOOSE COVERS

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 4, 29 September 1933, Page 4

FOR LOOSE COVERS

. Choice, and “Making Up” IMPORTANCE OF THE FIT When choosing your new soft furnishings, remember that the material must have sufficient body in it to hang and sit well—to look “trim,” though not trimmed. Do not choose a large patterned material' if you are an amateur, for the matching will bowl you out. Your next important consideration is fit. Measure carefully, but not stingilv. Collect sheets of brown paper and cut an exact pattern of each part of the chair. Split the back pattern in half lengthwise, and discard one piece. On to these exact patterns, add: . (a) Ordinary turnings of 1 inch on all-sides. This is to ensure a flat seam on the wrong side of cover. (b) Extra turnings of 6 inches on sides and back. of seat pattern, and on lower edges of side and back patterns to allow for-good tuck-in. (c) Turnings of 3 inches on lengthwise edge of half back pattern. This is to allow, a good hem and wrap-over fpr. the press-studs. Take a litle extra to get that satisfactory “built” look to your covers, which must not obscure the silhouette of the furniture, by: Piping all seams: allow a cross-way strip li inches wide to cover the cord. Boxpleating the frill (if’you have one) instead of gathering it. Measure right round the lower edge of your chair and allow times as much. When making up, pin the covers together with the right sides out. Fit carefully, and mark exact seam lines with pins or tailor’s chalk ; this gives you <i guide for the placing c. your piping cord, tacked into its crossway strip. -vi Place cord round front edge of chair seat portion, with raw edges to raw edges. Tack in place through the seam line, put front band of chair seat cover on top, right sides together, and stitch as close to cord as possible. And so with the remaining parts of cover.