Homemade all-purpose sofa cover

Many homeowners are particularly cautious when choosing sofa covers, fearing that they will find inferior materials and fail to play the ideal role. You can take a look at homemade universal sofa covers and common problems in the use of sofa covers to understand some common types of sofa covers, so the decorative effect should be better in the future, and there is no need to worry about quality problems, so it is indeed a very convenient method.

Homemade universal sofa cover

Prepare the tools, measure the size, cut the cloth, sew the needle, and then you need to turn the sofa cover over.

1. First of all, you need to prepare the tools. For example, rulers, scissors, pins, colored threads, needles for sewing clothes, and preferably a sewing machine, otherwise it will be very tiring. Another thing is a water-soluble pen, which is used for marking. It doesn’t matter if it is written on the cloth. The words will disappear when they encounter water. It is particularly easy to use.
2. Write the measured size on paper, and add 5 cm to each size, because the edge needs to be locked (or hemmed) when sewing, so remember to add 5 cm more. Personally, I think that if you are not sure about yourself, you should divide the sofa into several large pieces to sew, so that the sewing will be more accurate, especially for sofas with special shapes, you should sew more pieces.
3. Cut the cloth according to the measured size (remember to add 5 cm), and after cutting each piece, mark it with a water-soluble pen to avoid messing it up.
4. Overlock (or overlock) each piece of cloth. I started to sew by hand with needle and thread, and it took me a long time to finish a small piece. Later, I had to use the electric sewing machine I bought on Taobao before. This machine is actually broken, and now it can only be turned backwards, and the thread is always in a ball. No matter what, just use it, anyway, hide the ball of thread inside when you sew it up.

Common problems in using sofa covers

1. Shrinkage problem

The sofa covers sold by sofa factories usually cannot take into account the shrinkage of the fabric, which also causes the sofa covers to shrink severely after washing and cannot be installed!

Solve the shrinkage problem: fabrics will shrink to a certain extent when they come out of the fabric factory. Clothing will reserve shrinkage during production, and the pillow will only reach the ideal size after washing! However, this process cannot be directly applied to sofa clothes, because the sofa clothes must be put on the sofa body to ensure that the size is consistent and there is no size problem, and it can remain in its original state after washing. This requires that the fabric of the sofa clothes must be pre-shrunk before production; there are two ways to deal with shrinkage: one: a small amount can be directly washed and dried in a household washing machine; two: a large amount can be washed and dried in an industrial washing machine;

2. Design problem

The design of the sofa cover does not use the situation where the Velcro thorn surface is sewn on the fabric surface, but uses four-in-one buckles, elastic ropes, Velcro, zippers and other accessories commonly used in clothing. The design is more humane, easier to disassemble and assemble, and completely solves the problem that the sofa cover cannot be used after washing.

The above introduction is the common problems of making a universal sofa cover and using the sofa cover. I hope that more people will understand the basic sofa standard methods and have better guarantees in decoration. In fact, there are many things to consider when it comes to sofa covers, especially design issues or shrinkage issues, etc. If you don’t even know how to improve these things, it will be very inconvenient to use in the future, and there will also be many repair issues.