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Using The Flat Felled Seam to Make Seat Covers

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Part of the video series: How to Make Seat Covers for Furniture

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Summary: Learn how to use the flat felled seam to make seat covers for furniture with expert sewing tips from a seamstress in this free online upholstery video clip.

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Vicki Walker Vicki Walker has been sewing professionally for over 25 years. She has worked as a custom seamstress for home dcor merchants, in addition to operating her ow... read more

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Using The Flat Felled Seam to Make Seat Covers

Hi, this is Vicki Walker from Expert Village. For the purpose of our demonstration on how to make a butterfly seat cover, I have stitched the top section together with the bottom section. I have sewn the 2/have I stitched the 2 together and I have now pressed the seam over to prepare for the flat felled seam. I have trimmed the under section to a quarter of a inch and pressed under the other section of the other part of the seam. I would sew that down now to reinforce that seam to complete the flat felled seam. This is a curved section of the seat cover where the top and bottom section comes together so it is a little bit more difficult. I'm having to tug just a little bit as I go to make sure that all the ravel edge are going to be hitting. Careful again with the ravel edges and careful also that my finger does not get caught. I'm going to get the portion where that upper and lower sections come together and it would make sense now why they where pressed the opposite directions as we did in the earlier clip. Other wise the seam would have been too hard to bundle some and too thick and I would have either break a needle or not be able to stitched through the other section that need to be sewn through. That went pretty smoothly. More tucked edges but these are getting hidden away as you can see right here so the ravel edges would not be exposed. We would soon be ready with the other side here and ready to move on to another section of sewing the pocket sections that would go over the wings of the butterfly chair. That should take care of this section and that would do it for sewing the upper lower sections together and completing the flat felled seam.

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