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I am interested in covering wooden hangers, miles from a fabric store and not really willing to spend the money for a pattern, shipping and handling for mail order.
I could experiment but I am hoping there will be a source or someone has done this and can provide time-saving suggestions.
I would prefer the covering that is puffy and doesn’t just slip on from the top and hang down, although if the other type, with gathers, etc. is very time consuming I may resort to simple. I have 14 to make.
Thanks very much.
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I take two pieces of fabric, about four inches wide and at least one and a half times the length of the hanger (more if I want it seriously puffy). Join the two pieces down one long edge, leaving a gap of about half an inch in the middle of the seam for the hook to go through. Open out the seam and run gathering threads next to the seam you have just stitched. This will show, so it is better not to use the couched heavy thread method. I finish the two remaining long edges with some kind of narrow hem, adding trimming, lace or fancy stitching if I feel like it, fold it in half and seam the two short ends, curving the seam at the centre end. I wrap the hanger in strips of batting and then put the cover over it with the hook through the hole I have left. I then run another gathering thread along the underside of the hanger, as close to it as I can reasonably get, joining the two sides of the cover together and definitely parallel to the decorative hems. This is the tricky bit. Draw up all the gathers (can be a bit of a fight) and tie them off.
OK, this is a cover which slips on and hangs down, but not very far, does not need a pattern and is probably easier to do than describe!
I prefer to use leftovers of pretty cottons to make these. The strips left after cutting out a shirt are good. Slippy fabrics are harder to handle, and the clothes are liable to fall off the hanger.
Hope I made sense.
*I was displaying two wearable art pieces I had made for a show last month and had to make a couple of hangers in a hurry. i had some bubble wrap around. So I stuck the hanger hook through the bubble wrap and them taped the bubble wrap to itself after the hanger looked nice and puffy. I cut a piece of silk larger than the hanger, folded in the edges and hand stitched it together. Yes there was a slit near the hanger hook which i disguised whith a HUGE bow of contrasting fabric. They came out looking pretty cool - funky (because of the fabric choices0 and not too sweet looking.Play with it. The worst that will happen is the seams will be crooked.Nothing ribbon can't hide. It ain't rocket science. It ain't even high school biology. Take a good look at a store bought covered hanger. It will help you figure out what to do. If you weren't visula you would't be able to sew.ha
*I was displaying two wearable art pieces I had made for a show last month and had to make a couple of hangers in a hurry. I had some bubble wrap around. So I stuck the hanger hook through the bubble wrap and them taped the bubble wrap to itself after the hanger looked nice and puffy. I cut a piece of silk larger than the hanger, folded in the edges and hand stitched it together. Yes there was a slit near the hanger hook which i disguised whith a HUGE bow of contrasting fabric. They came out looking pretty cool - funky (because of the fabric choices) and not too sweet looking.Play with it. The worst that will happen is the seams will be crooked.Nothing ribbon can't hide. It ain't rocket science. It ain't even high school biology. Take a good look at a store bought covered hanger. It will help you figure out what to do. If you weren't visula you would't be able to sew.have fun!s
*Threads had an article on padded hangers - April/May 1997, pages 78,80
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