Pocket for clothes with your own hands

In a wardrobe of any person there are both things of daily use, and clothes that get out of the closet only for some special cases. Keep it in bags is inconvenient, because it should always look good, not be mint. If she keeps hanging on hangers all the time, she will be covered with dust and stretch. The only way out in this situation is the use of special cases. Such necessary, useful adaptations were sewed by our grandmothers themselves, and today we learn how to sew a cover for clothes with our own hands, because in this process there is nothing difficult.

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Why do we need covers for clothes?

The cover is an indispensable accessory of any expensive clothing that will become a real helper and will certainly meet the expectations of its owners:

• Outerwear, in particular their fur or leather products, must be stored in cases, as even minor scratches and slight rubbing on other clothes can spoiltheir flawless appearance. If such things are kept in proper conditions, they will not be afraid of any stains or scrapes.
• The same goes for dresses made of fine fabrics - chic evening dresses, decorated with beads, stones, ruffles, decorative stripes. For them, there are special cases of thin materials, which occupy the minimum space in the cabinet.

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Features of the application of covers for clothes

When the new season approaches, it becomes necessary to sort things that will not be worn any more. Naturally, you need to take care of their proper storage. Each housewife has secrets in this matter, but the most practical and efficient of them prefer to keep clothes in special cases.

Important! In short or long cases, as a rule, they store dresses, suits, jackets between seasons.

You can find them on the market, in the store, but, unfortunately, it is often difficult to find the right size models, and they are worth a lot. Therefore, many needlewomen are interested in how to sew a cover for clothes. The pattern of the desired cover can be created both independently and downloaded, printed from the Internet.

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What are the covers for clothes?

At first glance, it may seem that there is nothing special about these things, but this is misleading, because there are many cases for storing any things for any occasion.

To properly choose a model or to sew a cover for clothes with your own hands, you must first determine what you need:

1. Traveling bags. Their main difference from other models is the availability of special pens. They are designed precisely to put things comfortably in a suitcase or carry them in their hands. Clothes are placed in a cover, then folds neatly in half, - you get something that resembles a small bag. The second difference is material.

Important! These cases are made only from dense, moisture-proof and dust-free fabric. Therefore, in them things will always be in complete safety during the journey.

1. Covers for storage of wardrobe items in the closet. They differ in material and form, because they are designed specifically for hangers, and have special holes in the upper part, and also from the top are characteristically curved under the shoulder line. At the bottom, they are usually sewn up, but they can also be open. Shirts and dresses are stored in flat covers, and lush outfits and outerwear are in bulk trunks.

Important! It is very convenient that almost all of them have transparent polyethylene inserts, so do not always unfasten them and look for necessary things.

1. There are cheap variants of non-woven coveralls and more expensive ones, made of durable polyester. Then everyone chooses what he needs. For example:
   • to store at home seasonal things is enough and non-woven;
   • expensive things, of course, it is better to transport in polyester trunks.

Important! If the first place is to save space in the cabinet, you can buy vacuum covers.

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Can I sew a cover for my clothes myself?

Of course it is! The main thing is to find a suitable template or sew a cover according to the example of your house. In fact, everything is extremely simple:

• You need to remove the pattern from the shoulders of the right size, add about 7 centimeters on each side.
• If you plan to sew a case for storing only one thing, then the front and back parts just need to be sewn together.
• But if you want to place several pieces of clothes in it at once, you will have to insert the spacer piece along all sides of this width so that two or three things fit in the cover. Accordingly - at the top you will need to make more holes through which the hooks of the hangers will pass. The front part will look like a valve, through which the clothes will be placed inward. For greater convenience, this hole is made upright, and then it is closed with the help of buttons or ties.

Important! Sewing such things is better from materials that are easily ironed and blurred, and it is desirable that their color is in harmony with the style of the dressing room or bedroom. Ideal choice - carefully washed linen cotton fabric.

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We sew the clothes cover with our own hands

If you want your things to always remain fresh and have a presentable appearance that they do not get dust on them and they do not get hurt in each other in the closet, then safely get to work.

So, you need such tools and materials in order to sew a cover for clothes with your own hands:

• Pattern.
• Sewing machine.
• Wide piece of printed fabric.
• Dense material for lining.
• Velvet ribbon.
• Threads are the same color as the ribbon.
• Transparent ruler. Pencil for cloth or chalk. Ironing board and iron.
• Scissors.
• Measuring tape.
• Safety pins and a needle.

Now consider step by step how to sew a cover for clothes:

1. Download and print the template. Please note that you need to print it with all dimensions, without increasing or decreasing anything.
2. Cut out the solid lines on the solid lines.
3. We compose all parts of the template into one. Apply to the fabric and cut out two pieces of facial and lining fabric.
4. Combine the bottom long edge piece of lining with the front( down facing), stitching, making allowance for 1.25 centimeters.
5. Smooth all seams. The same is done with the second piece of facial tissue and lining.
6. We turn the lining in such a way that the face and lining fabric come together on the wrong sides. And so we continue to turn the lining until the face material starts to appear. We iron it thoroughly.
7. Make sure that the fabric of the front side is visible at the bottom of the cover.
8. We open the workpiece, we combine them with faces with each other, we carefully align everything.
9. Billets are fastened with pins and pierced with an allowance of 1.25 centimeters, while leaving a small space unshielded.
10. Cut the edges of the workpiece in such a way that it does not touch the seams.
11. Gently pull and turn the workpiece through the hole that we left unclosed.
12. As a result, we get a bag with a hole on the lining and front side.
13. Fold the edges of untreated holes, iron with ironing. Combine the holes in both parts and again iron.
14. We spend on the machine as close as possible to the edge opening, grabbing all layers of fabric.
15. We put the workpiece on the ironing board and carefully iron it.
16. We measure 7 centimeters from the edge of the received workpiece and with a pencil or chalk we draw a line.
17. Along the line we attach the tape with pins and in the middle it is squashed. From the remaining pieces of tape we make a bow and sew it to the cover.

Our cover is ready! Now he can decorate your wardrobe or wardrobe.

Make sure that nothing is easier than sewing a clothes pouch with your own hands? Now it's time to act, because all the advantages of using such a thing you will certainly appreciate in practice.