Yesterday I continued the project and finished one side of the table. Here are the steps I took to complete it.
First I ironed the piece of fabric, removing the wrinkles. I used the steam setting to remove most of them.
I used Dritz Stitch Witchery Fusible Bonding Web
to hem the sides and top of the fabric.
The directions on the packaging of the bonding web says to use a damp pressing pad
and let the iron steam on the fabric for 30 seconds. It was super easy to do and worked perfectly without having to re-do anything.
After hemming 3 of the sides, I added Velcro Fabric Fusion Tape
to the top of the fabric that would be attached to the top of the table. In order to cut costs and save on materials, I only attached 3 strips to the fabric.
Attaching the Velcro Fabric Fusion strips was super simple - 90 seconds of back and forth motion of the iron on the opposite side of the Velcro strip. That's it!
I ended up buying a roll of Velcro Sticky-Back Hook and Loop Fastener Tape
as well to attach to the table. The Velcro Fabric Fusion tape wouldn't work on the table - so I went with the regular sticky back.
I attached the finished fabric skirt to the side of the table.
I went with Velcro to attach the fabric to the table so that I can remove the fabric if I need to. It took me about a hour to get this one piece done. I don't expect it to take me that long for each of the next pieces, but who knows. So far I'm loving the one piece I have up though. It makes such a difference.
I LOVE the look fabric can give. I'm thinking of covering up a table in this manner myself, though I will go for sewing (not that I'm a pro, but I want to become better at it, so practice makes perfect, right?!) I just can't find fabric I like enough. Love yours though, why does everyone else find nice fabric but me? Can't wait to see the finished product!
ReplyDeleteYou are so very clever in preparing the table skirt! Hope I've got the same as yours but I am not lucky enough to have that skills.
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