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Karen Erickson, Founder of
Slipcover America

Slipcover America

Karen Erickson of Snohomish, Washington
has been involved with Home Decor Interiors for 23 years. In 1986 she started Fine Finishing by Karen as a part-time home based business designing and fabricating draperies, slipcovers and other fabric accessories. In 1998, her company became a corporation with a name change to Slipcover America, Inc.
 

Slipcover America, Inc. has 3 main objectives:

1) To educate the public about ways to increase the life span of their furniture. Don’t throw it away but recycle, and/or reuse via slipcovering, refurbishing and reupholstering. This objective is being meet, through workshops (teaching others how to make their own slipcovers), seminars (workshops how to rework their furniture) and related articles at www.slipcoveramerica.com

2) To maintain, and facilitate the Slipcover Network, an Internet website at www.slipcovernetwork.com which offers:

  • a “directory of slipcover professionals” to the consumer
  • acts as a support system to those in the slipcover industry
  • Slipcover Summit an Annual Slipcover Retreat in various regions of the country
  • the Slipcover Press a quarterly publication of the Slipcover Network

3)Design and fabricate slipcovers from natural organic fabric for her customers “ONSITE” in their homes throughout the country with a unique time saving techniques. Plus offers solutions to those customers suffering with allergies.

 

Karen works with designers, decorators and retail customers throughout the United States, specializing in ON-Site fabrication ( in customer’s homes) Karen continues to instruct both in the US and Canada doing Seminars/Demonstrations of Slipcovering at fabric stores, for sewing guilds, at professional workrooms, and for ASID groups. 4 years she was on staff at the Custom Home Furnishings Industry in North Carolina.

In January of 2007 she partnered with Claudia Buchian of  Sew What! Custom Home Decor & Slipcovers "dedicated to custom home sewing education". Photos and articles regarding slipcovers have been published in written magazine as well as in online publications

Karen is a single parent of two grown sons, one a Music graduate from Florida State University, and the other a Senior graduate from Lewis & Clark College Oregon a Biology Major.

 Published:

"Slipcovers" Sew News April/May 2007
“Sewing and Embroidery Magazine” March 2005
“Mary Englebreit Home Companion Magazine”, Dec/Jan 2001
“Meet Me in St Louis” Channel 5 April 2001
“St Louis South County Journal” February 2000
“St Louis Home and Garden Magazine” October 1999
“Better Homes and Garden Special Issue” Summer 1999
“Mary Englebreit Home Companion Magazine”, January 1999

 Articles published:
“Dreams Alive” online publication June 2005-05-28
“Slipcover Press” Editor 2002 - 2008
“SewWhat? Newsletter” (monthly contributing writer)
September, 1999 - July 2003
“Homespun Newsletter” contributing author Feb. 2000 - Feb 2005
“Window Fashions Magazine” April 2000

 
DVD's Published:
So You Want to Make a Slipcover (DVD 59min) January 2001
Slipcovers for Cushions (DVD 30min) April 2003
Tips for Wing Chair Slipcovers (DVD 30min) April 2003
Slipcovers for Recliners (Power Point on CD) December 2007

 

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