She includes links to videos showing how to do the techniques and sewing skills you’ll need to make your own slipcovers. Her tutorial breaks the process down into 5 steps, taking you from choosing and buying fabric to draping the fabric and making the pattern to fine tuning the fit and sewing it up. But the reward is a couch or chair that look like new! It takes a lot of fabric and a lot of long seams. Now, making slipcovers is not a quick and easy job. She walks you through the process of making a slipcover. If you’ve been thinking about making slipcovers for some of your own furniture, check out this post from Melly Sews. You can pay someone to make a slipcover for you, but if you know how to sew you may be able to make your own. That’ll get the spills and stains out a lot better – and easier – than shampooing and scrubbing on the couch itself. And a way to change up color or style without having to invest in an entirely new piece of furniture.Īnother benefit of slipcovers is the ability to take them off and wash them (assuming they’re made from a washable fabric). Thank you for your support.Give a whole new look to a favorite couch or chair with a slipcover! Or maybe your upholstery is showing signs of wear from years of kids or pets – or both! Life is hard on upholstered furniture! Slipcovers are a great solution. Posts on this blog may contain affiliate links. He still makes me smile, even without a Snapetastic Dammit Doll poem.
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I kind of like him just the way he is.ĮTA: No cloak or shoes, or anything else for that matter, but Dammit Snape still lives in my sewing room. I’m may make some shoes and a cloak for him, but I haven’t decided yet. I think if I used a tighter fabric, I wouldn’t have the same problems. The black fabric was a little too loosely woven, so the stitching was pulling out. I think it was more the fabric than the pattern. I had some issues with the corners (under the arms, neck, etc). For the hair… I wrapped black yarn around a 6″ ruler, then stitched it down the middle, hand-stitched it to his head then gave it a trim so to achieve those “greasy black curtains” of hair. I stuffed it & stitched up the hole I’d left for stuffing. I then attached hands, feet & head, then sewed front to back. Now I need a Snaperific poem to go along with him.įor the pattern, I drew out the shape I wanted then cut the hands, feet & head away from the body, cut those out of muslin and the body out of black adding seam allowance to all the pieces. One of my friends has suggested Voldie, Umbridge & the Malfoys as possible future candidates to be dammit dolled. I’ve left him with a, shall we say “blank” expression? (Read: I suck at faces.) I’ve seen Snape as a dammit doll before and decided to do one of my own. I’ve been feeling a bit… erm, craftipated, and decided on a simple & fun project that might help me get back on the crafty track. My original post on Craftster, January 27, 2007:
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What? Sometimes a girl has to vent her frustration! Of course, I can’t do that in an ordinary way, it has to have a fandom twist to it. Just grasp it firmly by the legs, and find a place to slam it,Īnd as you whack it’s stuffing out, yell, Here’s a little dammit doll you cannot do without,
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When you want to kick the desk or throw the phone and shout, If you’re not familiar with Dammit Dolls, the idea is this: a basic soft doll with long legs to hold on to, usually accompanied by a poem that goes something like this: