DIY Wingback Chair Slipcover

Supplies:
6-8 yards of durable fabric (I used duck cloth or canvas)
sewing machine
thread
scissors
lots of pins
chalk (optional)

My large wingback chair took about 8 yards of fabric because of the height and ruffle skirt along bottom.

Start by draping your fabric over your chair

 Try to center your fabric and tuck in fabric into creases to make it have a more snug fit while at the same time making sure your fabric still doesn't come out of place (should have enough width in fabric to wrap around the sides giving the back of chair a nice snug look also).

Time to pin! Place your pins around all of the edges of the top of the chair...we will work on the arms in a second...

The turtle was my Grandma Dolly's pin holder...she will be 88 in May and no longer sews but mr. turtle does all my projects with me :)

                                               

 Once the pins are all in place I usually cut off extra fabric to make it a lot cleaner and easier to sew.
Next cut a square for the bottom (which would be under seat cushion) and pin the edges to slipcover as shown:

Next cut out a piece of fabric about 8-10" wide and as long as you need for it to reach from the arm of your chair down to the seat cushion.  Your going to fold that piece in half and pin onto where your slipcovers arms are popping out. Look below to see how i started with that middle point and pinned from there.

Go start to sew this sucker!!

Now time to start the ruffle skirt- rule of thumb with ruffles you need about 2 1/2 times around to make them. So start by measuring how far down you want the skirt to go and get a cuttin!

Hem along the bottom of your skirt and the make your ruffles along the top as shown below:

 Ta-Daaaaaaa Photobomb

 Now since you have your beautiful slipcover top already sewn ;) you just put it over your chair and now pin the skirt to the bottom. This is the easiest way to see where your skirt is going to fall and make any changes or fixes to your cover without having to take it on and off a thousand times.

See my boo boo to fix :( it happens to the best of us haha!

Your all done!!! Time to decorate!! 

Or if your like me- make the second one!

I made the seat cushion cover just a simple slipcover - will make a easy beginners DIY for slipcovers for pillows and cushions very soon! Thanks for reading all!