So there has been a kink in my slipcover plans…that wonderful $1.50 per yard fabric I found…well, it has since sold out…bah! I originally bought only 3 yards to ‘experiment’ with – thinking 1. There was an entire bolt left for sale incase this was indeed the fabric I wanted to go with 2. How many people in my smallish town are going to have a hankering to cover their house in plaid over the next couple of days??? Apparently, cheap plaid fabric is a hot item around here! I went back to the store only 4 days later to collect the remaining 10 yards of fabric I needed to recover the rest of our chairs and nearly died of a heart attack when I saw one measly scrap of plaid fabric left on the bolt…what!? Where the heck did all of it go!?
I’m getting no sympathy from my husband during my fabric crisis because his retail motto is: ‘you’ve got to buy it when you see it!’ Whereas I take a more hesitant approach to buying…I look, I ponder, I weigh my options, I carry the thing around the store making sure it ‘feels right’, then 9 times out of 10 I put said item back on the shelf and say ‘I can always come back for it.’ I would normally shrug this fabric mishap off as an ‘it wasn’t meant to be’ moment, but I was able to finish one slipcover with the 3 yards I had and absolutely love the way it turned out…so, I fear, it actually WAS meant to be! But what is going to hurt the most is having to pay 5 to 6 TIMES as much money to get fabric that I will not love as much out of spite…
So, although I only have one cover, here are some pictures of what I did! I used BibbidyBoppidtyBeautiful’s wonderful tutorial as a guide to create my own pattern plans.
I’m getting no sympathy from my husband during my fabric crisis because his retail motto is: ‘you’ve got to buy it when you see it!’ Whereas I take a more hesitant approach to buying…I look, I ponder, I weigh my options, I carry the thing around the store making sure it ‘feels right’, then 9 times out of 10 I put said item back on the shelf and say ‘I can always come back for it.’ I would normally shrug this fabric mishap off as an ‘it wasn’t meant to be’ moment, but I was able to finish one slipcover with the 3 yards I had and absolutely love the way it turned out…so, I fear, it actually WAS meant to be! But what is going to hurt the most is having to pay 5 to 6 TIMES as much money to get fabric that I will not love as much out of spite…
So, although I only have one cover, here are some pictures of what I did! I used BibbidyBoppidtyBeautiful’s wonderful tutorial as a guide to create my own pattern plans.
I did mess up in a few areas, but it was nothing major and something I can easily tweak on my next cover. This was definitely a very do-able project, the hardest part is just making sure your chair measurements are correct. I was able to cut and sew this entire slipcover in about 2 hours (a lot less time consuming than I thought it would be). If you’ve ever thought about making your own slipcovers, I definitely recommend giving it a whirl…just remember lesson #3,242: buy ALL of your fabric at the same time!
To make matters worse, my burlap fabric arrived in the mail this weekend…I started-in right away and cut a length of fabric for one curtain panel…I go to unroll the fabric for the next curtain panel and what do I see…a giant, 12” tear, smack dab in the middle of the fabric! Ugh. My craft karma has just been off lately…lesson #3,423: always inspect ALL of your fabric (even if it’s 10 yards long) before making the first cut…so now I have one slipcover and one curtain panel…pretty soon it’s going to look like we fell down the rabbit hole to Alice’s wonderland around here…luckily, I think there is enough yardage beyond the tear to make one more panel, and I guess I’ll just have to go get more for the other window – It’s ‘make it work’ time!
To make matters worse, my burlap fabric arrived in the mail this weekend…I started-in right away and cut a length of fabric for one curtain panel…I go to unroll the fabric for the next curtain panel and what do I see…a giant, 12” tear, smack dab in the middle of the fabric! Ugh. My craft karma has just been off lately…lesson #3,423: always inspect ALL of your fabric (even if it’s 10 yards long) before making the first cut…so now I have one slipcover and one curtain panel…pretty soon it’s going to look like we fell down the rabbit hole to Alice’s wonderland around here…luckily, I think there is enough yardage beyond the tear to make one more panel, and I guess I’ll just have to go get more for the other window – It’s ‘make it work’ time!
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