There are a huge number of sofas in furniture stores. But I don’t have exactly the one I need. All models are huge, wide, plump, the sides are thick, due to this the length of the sofas is 230-250 cm.
And I have a free space in the kitchen of 220 cm. We started looking for a small sofa, we barely found it, length 214 cm, not wide, the sides are narrow, just what we need. Price 30,000 rub. We waited 3 weeks for the order from Kaliningrad and for good reason, I really like the sofa, it’s comfortable.
I saw almost similar sofas on the Internet, but they are 2 times more expensive, they also have bolsters on the sides of the pillows, it looks very nice.
I will sew myself exactly these from an Indian rug that I bought at Leroy Merlin, there is nothing complicated about it.
- First I measured the length of the pillow, it came out to 45 cm.
- I drew a circle for him, radius 7 cm.
- Now we need to calculate how much fabric will go to the roller. You can use a measuring tape to measure the length of the circle. But it will be more accurate if you use the formula from school geometry lessons.
The length of a circle is 2 x pi x R, where pi is a constant value of 3.14. So 2 x 3.14 x 7 = 44 cm. This means that for the roller you need a rectangle of 44x45 cm. When cutting, I made allowances on all sides.
- To prevent the fabric from unraveling when sewing, I reinforced all the cut edges with strips of non-woven fabric and then overlocked them with an overlocker.
- I folded the main part, stepped back 6 cm from the edges and sewed a zipper to both sides.
- Then I stitched these 6 cm.
- Attached the circles to the roller and stitched. Thanks to precise calculations, everything fit perfectly.
- How to fill such a roller? Any pillow filling is suitable - synthetic winterizer, holofiber. But you can use other materials.
- I took thin blankets with padding polyester, rolled them to the required length into a roller and wrapped them with a strip of padding polyester. She put everything in a new case and zipped it up.
As a result, the pillows are elastic and hold their shape.