HOME UPHOLSTERY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18710, 16 May 1924, Page 14

HOME UPHOLSTERY.

When making! a loose cover for an armchair, the professional worker places his material over the chair and by experience knows exactly how to cut his fabric to shape, but, for the amateur this is almost impossible. The best plan, therefore for the home worker is to provide herself with a paper pattern. This will be of use even though armchairs differ considerably in size and shape, for she can pin the paper pattern over the particular chair to be covered, -and where it overlaps cut the paper away, and where it is too small paste on . strips of newspaper to obtain the width needed. It is important that quite 4in. extra are allowed for tucking down between the base of l the back and the seat, ana again between the seat and the arms, in order that the cover may be well pushed down and so fit snugly without wrinkling over the chair. If, however, the worker wishes to make her own pattern, then she should pin large pieces of paper over the various parts, beginning with the back, and cut to shape, allowing the extra inches for tucking in and enough for the seams, making marks to indicate where the different parts join before removing the paper from the chair, in order to have a guide for putting the portions together when cut out. When joining the parts together a better finish will be obtained by placing a covered piping cord between the seams (so that all the raw edges come on the wrong side) and stitching it in with them.