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How to Make Table Leg Booties

The meal table, whether it be in the formal dining room or the family-oriented breakfast room, is one of the hardest working pieces of furniture in the house. The table is scooted, pushed, adjusted and moved. The legs and sides are kicked, bashed with chairs, and sometimes splattered with food or drink. The table itself can abuse the floor beneath the table legs. Scooting and sliding takes a toll on linoleum or carpet. To protect the floor and the table leg, making table leg booties is an easy and practical project for the homemaker.

Things You'll Need

  • Tape measure
  • Flannel fabric - 14-inch diameter circle per table leg
  • Scissors
  • 1/2-inch wide elastic - 6 inches per table leg
  • Straight pins
  • Sewing machine
  • Thread
  • Safety pins - 2
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Instructions

    • 1

      Use a tape measure to measure a 14-inch diameter circle; cut the circle from the flannel fabric for each table leg bootie desired.

    • 2

      Fold the outer edges of the circle in 1 and 1/4 inches against the wrong side of the fabric and pin the fabric in place. This will be the casing or the "tunnel" for the elastic to thread through.

    • 3

      Using the straight stitch function on the sewing machine, sew around the pinned edges using a 1-inch seam allowance, leaving a 3-inch opening/gap unsewn (where the elastic will enter/exit). Remove the pins.

    • 4

      Cut a 6-inch piece of 1/2-inch wide elastic for each table leg bootie.

    • 5

      Connect a safety pin to the end of a piece of elastic. Connect the other end of the elastic to the fabric at one end of the elastic casing/tunnel. This will prevent you from losing the elastic within the casing.

    • 6

      Feed the safety pin/elastic through one opening of the casing until it emerges at the other opening.

    • 7

      Sew the elastic to the fabric, and sew the casing closed. Usually a simple straight stitch and then reverse straight stitch will secure the elastic and the end of the casing.

    • 8

      Turn the table leg bootie right side out and stretch the elastic opening over the end of each table leg.

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