Shrink cushion cover
As a small or in the original quite large "Verwöhnerli" I have bought a stuffing pad / ticking for the back and after several hours rehearsal sitting and Probestopfens with filler from 80 x 80 reduced to 72 x 72 cm. With this final measure and the amount I would have loved to leave the couch at this time. :-) But there was still missing the matching large cushion cover.
Now for the details:
Fortunately, a 80 x 80 cm cushion cover was still waiting for its use. But I did not just shrink this case down to 72 x 72 cm, because otherwise it would have been too tight around the stuffing cushions because of the full stuffing and left no room for the inlett.
To determine the new Maßes I have once pulled it over the stuffing pad, with the left side of the fabric to the outside! This has the advantage that you can sew after staking with pins later later on the machine along the new contour and with the fabric sides left to left!
But if I had used the cover with its right side outwards and put it right side on the right, then I would not have been able to sew that way, so I would have had to remove the pin, turn the pillow and put the needles back in again. And besides there is the question: At which places / along which contour would I have had to sew? In addition, everything would have been dimensional inaccuracies ... So I did not work!
My suggestion in advance:
When reducing widths:
Coat / try fabric on left to left ... - insert it from left through both layers of fabric along the new contour, remove fabric and then sew immediately - finished!
That's exactly how I did it:
1. Turn the cushion cover to the left first.
2. So that I did not have to sew the cushion cover around narrower / smaller, I did not place the stuffing pad anywhere in the cushion cover but pressed it with any corner into a corner of the pillowcase and placed it - then I have a second adjacent corner of the stuffing pad pressed into the adjacent corner of the cushion cover. In two corners and on two edges now filled cushion and cushion cover met exactly. At the two other edges, the cushion cover was now too wide - so I only needed to reduce the width of the cushion cover on two edges!
The resulting new contour, I have worked with extra long and thinner pins (a treasure, if you eg Hats umsteckt - the long pins hold a hem much better than the usual short!): I have the excess material between taken both hands and put the pins parallel to the original edge in the two fabric layers, that the cushion cover in this reduced form already flattering / softly put around the bulging Kisseninlett.
In this step, it is better to "take away" too little material than too much, so that the filling cushion can "slip" back and forth within the cover, so there is room for maneuver. Sew again "close" and cut off excess fabric is always - not the other way around - there it is like the overlock: Ab is off :-(
To be sure:
Before cutting off roughly staple the overlapping material along the two edges, pull the cushion cover with the right side inside (!) over the filling pad and inspect:
Only when the cushion cover is "loose", remove the cover from the ticking, quilt along the two edges with the usual stitch length and thus produce the new finish!
Another hint for the one who likes it:
As you can see on the last picture, I have formed the corners slightly rounded when ensuring the final measure in the purchased Füllkissen and also in the cushion cover, because I do not like it so when the corners usually stand out as "empty" Zipfel so.
- For this I sewed the corners only "at right angles" and then with a correspondingly large flat plate further inside a slightly rounded contour recorded and quilted along her again ...
- iron the new seams
- Overcast the seam allowances and
- cut the fabric / cut back - done
As described above, I will also and especially with all garments that are too far: put on the left (!) And stake the body from the outside according to the figure - never measure, because we are not always symmetrical in physique ...
A good start to the week!
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