DIY chair covers

It so happens that over time, the chairs in the house lose their attractiveness, their appearance becomes not too neat, the lining gets dirty, wears out and even breaks. Their replacement is very costly financially, and, as a rule, they need to be updated immediately with the whole set, especially if it concerns the living room. In this situation, the best solution would be sewing covers on chairs with your own hands. Covers can significantly refresh your interior, bring new colors to your home. With them, the interior becomes incredibly cozy, because textiles always bring incredible warmth to the house.

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Holiday Covers

Depending on the purpose, covers are for daily use or for use during important events and celebrations.

Festive covers are often used in cafes and restaurants for various banquets. However, a good housewife with needlework skills can sew holiday covers for chairs with her own hands. Having dressed chairs in festive dresses, housing will be transformed, filled with a solemn atmosphere.

Holiday cases can be used on occasion:

• New Year;
• all kinds of anniversaries;
• birthdays;
• Christmas
• reception of guests;
• various holidays that correspond to the traditions of the family.

Such covers can be sewn from any elegant fabric or using appliqués corresponding to the theme of the event.

Important! Applications can be fastened with Velcro. On a typical day, a festive applique can be replaced with a bow or a decorative element that fits into the interior style and is suitable for daily use.

Since such covers are not used daily, absolutely any textile can be used in their tailoring. An ideal solution would be curtain fabrics.

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Casual covers

For daily use when sewing covers, it is best to use a dense and practical fabric. It should not be a brand, not wrinkled, easy to wear, have high wear resistance.

Important! Such covers must necessarily be easily removable for washing and just as easy to put on.

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Separate covers

If the chairs for which you will sew covers with your own hands will be used in the dining area or in the kitchen, separate covers are best for you. In this case, it will be easier for you to keep them neat. They can be washed separately as they become dirty, because everyone knows that the seat gets dirty much faster.

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One piece covers

Unlike separate covers, whole wraps look much more elegant, their appearance is neater, they give the interior a certain luxury. Therefore, you should think and prioritize. What is more important to you - spectacularity or practicality?

Important! If you are going to sew integral covers for chairs with a backrest with your own hands that completely cover all the legs directly to the floor, it is best to provide internal ties or Velcro when sewing them. They will fix the bottom of the cover to the legs of the chair so that it always sits in place and does not move out.

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Building patterns

Before you sew the covers on the chairs with your own hands, you need to make a pattern of the future product. There is a certain algorithm in constructing a pattern:

Step 1

At this stage, taking measurements from the chair.It is important to consider all the design features, as it is extremely rare that it is perfectly rectangular in shape. It is necessary to determine to what level the skirt of the cover will reach, whether it will completely cover the legs.

We need to make the following measurements:

• measure all seat dimensions, its depth and width;
• if the seat has a non-standard shape, it is best to circle its dimensions with graph paper or paper;
• measure the height, width and thickness of the back, or circle its dimensions;
• measure the height of the skirt and the distance between the legs.

Step 2

After taking the measurements, we make a drawing of all the necessary details on paper. At this stage, trial patterns are drawn on newspaper or large format paper. It is necessary to do a full cut of all the details as we would do on the fabric. This is necessary for a trial fitting.

Step 3

Armed with ordinary or masking tape and all the details of the pattern, we do the fitting. We glue all parts at the place of future seams with tape. We get the so-called layout of the future product. Visually evaluate all the flaws and shortcomings in the process of constructing patterns. We make adjustments to the drawings.

Taking into account all the changes, we make the final drawing, which will serve as a pattern for future fabric cutting.

As you can see, the process is rather laborious, but if you need to sew several covers for a whole set of chairs, you will not ruin the fabric, thereby saving money.

Important! On average, 1.5-2 meters of fabric is required per case.

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We transform the nursery

Children are incredibly creative personalities. What will not tell highchairs. This can be plasticine, paints, felt-tip pens, pens, pencils, all kinds of masses for modeling. Sometimes on children's chairs there are prints of dirty hands stained with chocolate and various foods. Compote, milk and all kinds of drinks are spilled on them. Therefore, the cover on the chair in the children's room carries an important mission to protect this furniture from all kinds of pollution.

Important! It is most practical for a children's room to sew a separate cover so that only the soiled part can be washed separately.

In order to make a cover on a highchair with your own hands, you can use the algorithm for constructing the previously described pattern. However, this alone will not be enough, because children love to surround themselves with bright colors and their favorite characters. In this situation, in addition to the cover, you can make a fun application.

Important! To make the applique, you can take bright pieces of fabric, for example, felt, and from them sew or cut your favorite character for your baby. Next - use Velcro to attach the applique to the back of the chair. This will be a very practical solution, since before washing you just unplug the applique and will not have to wash it.

You can also sew a separate cover, where the seat of the chair will be covered with a universal, durable, soft, non-marking fabric, and sew the back curly, in the form of the head of a beloved animal. Such chairs will surely please your child, bring a cheerful mood, bright colors and comfort to the nursery. This is a great way to make little bullies sit a little bit in place, do creative work, because what kind of kid refuses to sit in such a chair.

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Chair cover without sewing

It so happens that there is simply not enough time or skills to sew a cover. In this case, the simplest option for making a chair cover with your own hands without sewing will be useful to you.

To do this, we need a rectangle of fabric with a width equal to the width of the chair and a length that consists of the sum of the following measurements:

• height from the floor to the top of the back;
• back thickness;
• back height;
• seat depth;
• height from floor to seat.

Having a rectangle of fabric of the required size, just throw it on a chair and fix it on the back with a beautiful ribbon in the form of a bow. As you can see, this method is incredibly simple and takes a minimum of your time.

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What materials to use when sewing?

When sewing covers for chairs, you can use all kinds of materials, the main thing is that they are dense, wear-resistant, practical in use. To save money, you can sew bright covers from old unnecessary clothes by combining fabric flaps with colorful zigzag stitches. You can also make a chair cover on your own jeans chair. You can sew it completely from jeans or decorate it with jeans.

Important! Stylish and practical decor can be done using the back of jeans with pockets. You can sew it to the back of the case. Such decor will serve you as an additional place to store all kinds of little things.

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As you can see, there are tons of options when sewing chair covers. They can be done by either an ordinary housewife who does not have sewing skills and an experienced craftswoman. Just turn on the fantasy!