Find creative this weekend with this basic step-by-step guide to building a coat hanger cover
Products you'll require:
Wooden or plastic coat hanger
Dense cotton wadding (available at haberdashers)
Fabric marker pen
Tacking thread
Cloth (we used Soubise, ref F5900-02, £65 a metre, Osborne & Little)
Related thread
20cm of narrow velvet ribbon
Mother-of-pearl button
Testing and cutting material
Step 1: Collapse the polyester wadding to double depth, place your coat hanger-on top and bring round it utilizing the marker pen, adding 5mm at all times. Cut out to provide two parts.
Step 2: Meal the hanger involving the wadding pieces and tack them together over-all, dragging the stitches tight to assemble the wadding into shape.
Step 3: to really make the address, put the padded hanger-on a page of newspaper and attract around onehalf ending at the lift. Add 3cm at all times and cut out to make a paper pattern. The address is made in two halves, joined together once in place.
Step 4: Inappropriate factors facing, collapse your fabric in half, pin the paper pattern on top and pull around it. Switch the pattern and repeat, matching any material sample (see example). Cutout your four fabric pieces coat hanger .
Sewing to the cover
Step 5: Incorrect edges facing, stitch the first couple of fabric items all round bar the fundamental advantage going for a 2.5cm seam. Video into the seam allowance round the circular edges and switch through. Repeat to sew the second set of fabric pieces.
Step 6: Take each 50% of the material address onto the padded hanger, lightly performing the material as you go to guarantee a smooth fit. When you arrive at the middle, flip beneath the natural edges to create a tidy fit across the catch. Slip stitch the 2 halves of the cover together over-all, retaining the stitching as little and tidy that you can.
Step 7: Wrap the bow around the root of the land and tie so that if drops within the fall stitched seam. Line a decorative switch to the ribbon to finish.
