~slipcovered headboard tutorial~

Hello there everyone!

Happy Friday!

Are you all ready for the weekend?

Whatever you're doing ~ I hope you

have fun!

I seriously cannot believe

it is almost the middle of September....

wow!

~*~

You may remember my post not

too long ago regarding the tufted

headboard...??

{click here to read about it}

so I wasn't loving it~ nope ~

just wasn't liking the chenille

or the shape....

so I started over.......

 and this is the current and

latest version of our headboard...

slipcovered in white....

I know it seems absolutely nutty

to completely scrap the first &

start ALL over again.....but.....

I'm so glad I did.

so here's the process....

{in case you get the urge....}

It basically starts the same as the tufted headboard ~

you need some plywood & a shape

you like....

This was my inspiration photo ~

love this room!!

{& the house that goes with it for that matter....

click here to see the whole house}

I painstakingly drew my design....

{used various household items to try to get

the shape just right}

and traced it onto my plywood

{hmmmm, I do believe that is a pile of laundry

on the couch back there......}

now it's time for the batting...again...

roll it out & staple it on

pre-wash your fabric and get ready to pin!

big hint:  if you don't want seams

down both sides in the middle

like I did.....*cough cough*

make sure you buy enough fabric.....ahem....

;)

but since I was in a hurry

because I had already spent

so much time on headboard #1

I decided to live with it......hence

the seams.....

so for this step just lay your fabric over

the headboard & loosely cut around

the shape....at this time it's not about precision,

it's about cutting off all the bulky extra fabric you

don't need.

now once you get all the excess trimmed off ~

you pin it into place for a snug fit...

now that you've got it pinned into shape

and smoothed out ~

*note *

I chose not to cover the back in the same fabric....

knowing it would be against a wall, I covered the back in a lightweight white bedsheet.

{el cheapo, ya know}

so at this point you can just stitch the 2 sides together,

or you can decide to add piping like I did ~

I love me some piping...

so off to the sewing machine....

if you'd like to know how to do piping...

click here for a look

pin the piping on &

stitch it in place and voila!

headboard is done!

ok....not really....

but this is where the tutorial pictures end.....

well....I musta got hasty and just forgot

to take the rest....whoops!

this is what we did: (Mr. T & T~ and I supervised...;)

we picked up an 8 foot 1x4 and cut it

in two.  We eyeballed (is that a real word?)

about how high we wanted the headboard to

sit & screwed the 1x4's into the back one

on each side.

Then just slipped the cover over the headboard

and pushed the bed up against it!

now it's done!

and it's my bedtime....

good night all!

xoxo,

Shellagh