Last week I was busy reupholstering an IKEA sofa in our living room. My partner found it on eBay and bought it secondhand just after our daughter came to home ... we had too less energy to judge it thoroughly during the busy days with a new born. It was a bit dirty from the beginning and the white canvas cover absorbed dirt, bread crumbles, baby milk, mushed food and everything. I wanted to make a new cover for long time.
IKEAのソファーのカバーを作って張り替えました。産後何を思ったかお父ちゃんが買ってきた中古のIKEAソファーは白、しかももりもり汚れを吸収しそうなキャンバス地。もともとなんとなく使用感があり、洗っても落ちず、子どものやんちゃで汚れに汚れて長いことどうにかしたいと思っていました。汚れっぷりの伝わるよい Before の写真がないのが残念です。
It was time to do it! It's summer holidays ;) It was the biggest object I sew in my life. I used 6.3m of fabric with 1.5m width. Although covers are 3D objects sewing itself wasn't difficult as most of the lines were straight. Just they were big especially the one for the base!
夏休みということで、重い腰をあげて一週間がかりでちょこちょこ進めて完成しました。人生最大の大物で、使用した布は150cm幅のものを6.3m。これでももともとのカバーを部分的に使いまわしたくらいです。ほとんど直線縫いで縫うの自体は難しくないのですが、ともかく大きかった・・・特にベースのカバーなんてもう。
(I wanted to take a 
I used original cover like patterns. Since my budget was limited, I carefully made a strategy to make use of the fabric as much as I can and reused materials from the former covers such as zippers.
元のカバーをばらばらにして型紙にしました。予算は限られているし、もったいないしでぎゅうぎゅうに詰め込んで布を使う作戦を立てて、ジッパーなど使えるものは使いまわしました。
Size wise it was the maximum size my home use sewing machine can handle while my sewing machine was strong enough to sew three layers of thick fabric, which I had doubt before I start sewing the covers. Great job & thank you my Singer sewing machine! I wish you can take rest ;)
私のミシンは家庭用で縫える大きさの限界ぎりぎりでした。当初パワーが十分か心配したものの、3枚がさねでステッチをかけるところも問題なし。Singer 万歳。ごめんね、ミシン、そしてありがとう。
A 500m thread roll became empty. I used other a gray one to stitch outside so I think used more than 500 m of thread.
500m巻きの糸もこの通り。
By the way, talking about IKEA sofa, covers are sold separately. Unfortunately I couldn't find ours. The production of the sofa can be over.
ちなみにIKEAのソファーはカバーだけ買うこともできます。残念ながらうちのはもう古いのかな、ぱっとは見みつからず。
https://www.ikea.com/de/de/catalog/categories/departments/living_room/10664/
A set of covers for similar sofas costs around $170 up to materials, number of cushions etc. I'm satisfied with the result and happy to finish small part neatly. Also it was interesting to see effective IKEA design and guess the manufacturing process, why the sofa and covers were designed so. But seeing it as a paid work it doesn't make sense at all. I wonder how does IKEA make it within $170. In addition to production cost itself, transportation, storage, the company's back office cost etc are included. And also VAT is quite expensive in Europe. 19% in Germany. I found a tag says it's made in Romania.
うちのと同じくらいの2人がけのソファーのカバーはサイドのクッションの有無や素材によりますが、150ユーロほど（20000円弱）。細かいところもていねいに処理して、IKEAデザインの意図を垣間見て楽しかったけれど、時間と労力と材料費を考えたら金銭的には全然元は取れません。人件費が安いであろうこと、効率よく分業して生産しているであろうことを考えてもどうやってこの値段を実現しているのだろう。しかも輸送もありますよね。ヨーロッパは消費税も高いし。
While I was cutting and sewing the fabric, I noticed that a lot of dust in our living room. In the end I had some strange feeling in my throat. My sewing machine didn't feel good sometimes. I had to clean inside 2-3 times. I wish no one sacrifices his/her health and is exploited to produce cheap furnitures :(
ちなみに裁断や縫製の過程で出るほこりは結構なもので最後はなんとなく喉がおかしかったです。ミシンの釜にも埃が詰まって途中何度か掃除をしました。生産の過程で健康面や待遇で犠牲になっている人がいないことを願うばかりです。
So although I had a difficult feeling, I'm happy to finish the cover and my family is also happy about the sofa.
何はともあれ無事仕上がってよかったです。お父ちゃんと子どもも気に入ってくれているようです。
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