A reversible fabric slipcover for your headboard allows you to change the look of your bedroom with the seasons or as the mood strikes. Donna Babylon of Pellon Consumer Products shows how to make a simple reversible slipcover for a flat rectangular-shaped headboard. Materials:
Measuring tape
Two fabrics--one for each side of the headboard
Coordinating thread
Fusible fleece
Iron
Straight pins
Fusible hem tape
Iron-on adhesive sheets
Eight lengths of ribbon for ties, each 12" to 18" long
Sewing machine
- Measure the length and width of the headboard. Double the height measurement so the slipcover will be the right size to slip over the headboard, and cut a piece of fusible fleece to this measurement. Add 1/2" to the fleece measurement on each side for the seam allowance, and cut one piece of each of the fabrics to this size.
- Arrange one of the fabrics face down on your worktable, and center the fusible fleece on top of it, adhesive-side down. Fuse the fleece to the fabric by pressing it with an iron (figure A). Don't iron back and forth, only up and down, holding the iron in place to fuse the fleece to the fabric.
- Turn the fabric face up. If each side of the slipcover is to have two ribbon ties, pin four pairs of ribbons to the right side of the fabric, perpendicular to the side edges of the fabric and equidistant from the top and bottom so they can be tied in pairs when finished (figure B). Place the second piece of fabric face down on the first piece, with the ribbon ties sandwiched between, and pin the fabrics together. Stitch the fabrics with a 1/2" seam allowance, leaving a 4" to 5" turning hole (figure C).
- Turn the slipcover right side out, and seal the turning hole with a piece of fusible hem tape.
- Embellish opposite sides of the slipcover as desired with ribbon, buttons or coordinating fabric cutouts (figure D). Attach the ribbon with adhesive-backed fusible tape. To add coordinating fabric cutouts, press a piece of adhesive-backed fusible sheet to the back of a patterned piece. Cut out the piece, remove the paper backing, and press in place.
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