Make Slipcovers From Measurements

** Sixth and Last Criteria

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Is the willingness to trace or template shapes which defy measuring and either plug them in or plug them on. There's safe procedures that produce very accurate front arm panels, outside back plug ons, that you will be happy to use.

** Fifth Criteria

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Your willingness to accept and practice some basic math. This inside back has a perfectly wonderful right angle which serves as the basis of all other measurements. Can't see it yet ? Find the half way point of the back. Insert a line of pins. That's one leg of our right angle. The other leg is the deck. You have to imagine some stuff, but then you will see that is does indeed work, and that fabric is forgiving enough when washed to make this whole plan work well.

** Fourth Criteria

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Is your personal experience level having previously draped a pattern or pin fit a furniture part. This inside arm is a rectangle minus simple stuff cut away. Once you have proven this to yourself a few times, you will be satisfied a rectangle does the job sufficiently.

** Third Criteria

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Is your willingness to commit to seam lines, imagine and mark those seam lines, as the basis for your measuring and your sketch. This seems bassakwards, but necessary. You must know the shapes of your parts that will get cut at the table before you measure. Here, I have found a solution for creating a rectangle within the inside back. I divided off this corner part so my inside back can be drafted as a rectangle. This part is then also easy to sketch, measure, draft. Or my pins outlining this odd shape can be rubbed with crayon and muslin to trace.

** Spot Rectangles

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The second criteria for whether a piece of furniture is easy to measure is your ability to spot rectangles. Why ? Rectangles can be recorded and duplicated by drafting on the table. Rectangles are the basis of measuring furniture AT ALL. The upholsterer has made it easy for you to see this rectangle. This rectangle is inside the final cut shape of the outside back. We can measure this rectangle, and the trace the outline of the parts which must add on.

** First Screening Test..begin easy please.

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These posts will be in reverse order until I am finished the whole lot, and then I will put them right, bear with me. The first criteria of whether a piece of furniture can be measured easy is the arm and front panel being straight planes and at 90 degree angles. If you cannot drape a right angle tool over your arm and front panel in this manner, this is not an easy to measure piece.