hey guys just wanted to give you a little update today on what I'm going to be doing right now I'm getting ready to head to Home Depot to pick up a few things that I need to finish the projects that I've got going on go figure I have about 20 at a time so that's pretty normal today I want to get done on covering my loveseat I've already done the sofa and posted before and after picture so I kind of want to give you like a fast-forward walkthrough I guess of how I did that today I also want to get done my ugly green chairs that I had been working on I've gotten the one gutted down to nothing and I'm starting to add the fabric to it so I will definitely do a tutorial so stay tuned and don't forget to subscribe below I want to go ahead and just get started by kind of showing you my setup here I'm going to be slip covering my loveseat today so let me show you the loveseat again great basic beige couch if you've seen my previous blog post you'll know that we kind of inherited those from neighbors that were moving when you are young and broke that's just what you do we had them professionally clean so here is my cute little kitty so here I have my coffee table set up with my sewing machine on it that just seems to be what works for me is a set up I know it's not very professional this is where I'll be doing my magic once again here is the loveseat here's the finished couch so let's get started so you want to make sure that this is inside out eventually it will be right-side out after you've sewn so right now I'm just kind of lining up the back hem of this drop cloth with the bottom pump some more and leaving just a little overhang so that I have enough to him into the scenes or two so the theme you paid attention to my sofa lip cover you'll notice that I have this seam here across the couch it really wasn't a way of doing away with that with this size of a drop cloth so in these and these aren't perfect these drop cloths so you can kind of see this run in the fabric which is okay with me I'm okay with a little bit of a rustic look again here at the corner I'm going to leave about an inch or two so that I have enough to sew my pieces together I've got a run here in my fabric which I'm actually I used as a guide to cut mine I wish you could see the ground right now here he is totally hiding under it like at the time this will actually then act as the bottom skirt as well for the fun closely at the bottom of a drop cloth you've got like a really thin him just good kind of bring it in here and kind of show you what I'm doing the bottom is here so you're going to have some access right here and I'll show you how we're going to attach that and make our pleat like we did on the sofa so from here I'm going to cut the piece it's going to cover this area right here so I found out from covering the couch that this excess you have leftover from the cutting your main body piece works really perfect for covering the arm of the chair so pretty much you just cut the piece in half where the hem that they placed is just cut that in half again you're going to use the head the part that was pretty hemmed as your bottom this is what's going to touch the ground at this point it doesn't really matter it what is from what is back to this piece because we're getting rid of all of the hems except for that bottom and that bottom doesn't have a right side out from this point we're going to do again we are going to match the hem up with the length of the floor you can match it with the back corner as well that will kind of keep everything nice and square just match it up that corner I like to use these bright ended pins when doing upholstery it just makes it easier to find the pin and especially if you drop one on the floor I don't recommend doing this with the cat and the house you are making this so difficult from this point we are going to just kind of line up both these to make a nice corner you're going to want to try to stay consistent with the shape of the couch so making your you're pinning as snug as possible this doesn't need to be super fitted any areas you have a little extra fabric or excess can be kind of tucked into creases of the couch and with people setting on it you want there to be a little bit of give so from here I'm going to go ahead and cut off the excess then I'll bring the camera around and show you what I've gotten accomplished so far so you can kind of see here in this view of my pins kind of outlining the general shape that I need this seam here is going to sit in that crevice between the back pillows and the armrests to kind of see I personally like taking the slipcover out and sewing it in sections versus sewing it all at one time and then screwing up the entire thing I like to tweak it as I go so I will take this off at this point take it to my sewing machine so what I have started kind of a long process I know but it just made it a lot better so that is exactly what I'm going to do so I have carefully taken my slipcover off of the couch another important thing you want to make sure that you're sticking your pins in correctly I did mine backwards this time I thought I was doing in the right way and I'd done backwards you want them to be placed so that you can pull them towards you out as you sew I clearly don't know top from bottom and did mine backwards so you want to make sure that those are placed correctly before you continue on another important thing I'm using the singer simple 2263 sewing machine I do recommend getting a heavy-duty needle and upholstery type needle and to use a brand new one when starting a project with really thick material you're gonna have a lot less hassle I also am using three thread from here I'm just going to go ahead and start selling I don't recommend this setup with your sewing machine on the coffee table if you don't sew regularly so I'm just going to follow along my pin line and pull my pins out as I go that would have been much smoother had my pins been in the right direction and if you're curious about my sewing machine settings I am only on a one length and on a single straight stitch so I have made it to the end of where I had pinned so I'm going to take this over there lay it back on continue pinning and then work on my next after I have placed the fabric back on the couch after sewing that little bitty section back there I went ahead and pinned the rest of the way down the aisle back up here so you can see down the crease that will get tucked into the area between the back of the couch and the armrest and then from here I went ahead and trimmed down the front of the couch and added in a piece and just kind of pinned out that shape attaching the tube so from here I'm going to go ahead and attach this excess you see right here to this I'm going to go ahead and attach that so I'll show you how to do that this area back here I will worry about last that does not need to be perfect we have cushions that are still going to be placed on this couch so I will show you how I do attach this to this and a delete from here I'm going to go ahead and take this piece of fabric and attach it to both this piece here on the side and this upper piece I'm going to attempt to make my hem pretty well flush here with this edge of the couch with the front so you're going to see that this is really awkward and it's going to need to be cut some one shape or form so I will start pinning and show you how to do that I'm going to go ahead and just kind of match up my two corners here the outer corner over here in the front corner and again remember to have your PIN run in the direction that you'll be pulling them out when you're so many sewing machine from here I'm going to go ahead and make a cut but I'm going to leave about an inch more than I actually want that way I can attach it to the next piece above it I'm just gonna make a slit almost all the way to the north you'll see here how I have a little bit of slack in the fabric so that's what I'm going to use to make my pinch pleat this here flap you can pin it up out of the way while you do your please they even need to cut a little more so from here you're going to pull in your fabric I would say it's about 1/4 of an inch here you're going to go ahead you're going to attach it to that flap that you picked up out of the way gonna free and lower you just end to corner over here and it's going to be awkward so area so area so from there we'll go ahead and take this off we will sew it and then we will connect your inside pieces so from here you can see that I completed the exact same steps that I just prior on the other side and any excess fabric that I had between the back and the armrest I just talked in between so now I will go ahead and cover the cushions and place those and be done because here you can see I finally have fully completed don't mind the NFL draft poster Lizzie my husband's are having a dress party next weekend finally done Jordy says thank goodness