DIY seats on chairs

To sit on a chair was more convenient and enjoyable, you can buy a comfortable and practical seat for him. However, such accessories purchased in the store are not very different from those that you can do with your own hands. Yes, and it’s much more pleasant to create such simple and cute little things for the house yourself. From this article you will learn how to make seats on chairs with your own hands, which no one else has.

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What are the accessories for chairs?

Before you start the main work, you need to familiarize yourself with what other ways you can decorate furniture. Consider the most popular accessories:

• The most popular accessory is seats. They are a kind of covers made of a variety of materials. Such additions help the owner to protect the furniture from various damages, make the seat of a chair or stool itself much softer, and also carry an aesthetic function.
• Furniture cushions make the seat itself the most comfortable.
• Wraps or bedding for chairs. So you can call covers that cover more than one seat, but the whole piece of furniture. Most often they are sewn from fabric.

Important! Fabrics for future seats are better to choose, guided by the design of the room. If this room is made in pastel colors, then it is better not to use bright accessories.

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Making the simplest model

In order to sew the seats on the chairs with your own hands, you need to stock up on the following materials:

• The fabric to be used as the main one.
• Wrong side fabric.
• Sintepon - can be replaced with any other filler.
• Slanting inlay (cotton) - about 11 meters for 4 products.
• Plastic or cardboard to make a pattern.
• Pencil and ruler.
• Safety pins.
• Sewing machine.

Let's move on to the manufacture itself:

1. According to the shape of the seat of a stool or chair where the cover will be made, make a template out of cardboard or plastic. It will be a pattern of the future product.
2. Using the template, you need to make three blanks for each cover: from the base fabric, lower fabric and synthetic winterizer.
3. Fold the blanks in such a way as they should be in finished form (first comes the main fabric, then the synthetic winterizer, and after it the additional fabric). On one side, mark the lines for the line with diamonds.
4. Secure all three layers with safety pins so that they cannot move. With the walking foot on the machine, apply the stitches according to the marking.
5. Further, in order to sew the seats on the chairs with their own hands, it is necessary to use the pattern again. It must be attached to the workpiece and with scissors or a knife to cut off all the excess.
6. Mark on the workpiece the attachment points of the cover to the back of the piece of furniture.
7. To sew the oblique inlay easier, it is better to sew the blank along the edge.
8. To take a look from the fastening side. Remember that you need to leave the ends for the ties, the lengths of which will be approximately 30 cm.
9. Carefully wrap the ends of the tape, fold the ties in half and stitch them with one seam with the newly processed side.
10. Take notice, and then sew on a typewriter in tape to the other sides.

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Biscuit Seat

With the help of such a cover, you can even make a very original piece of furniture from an old stool that will attract attention.This design is a lot of voluminous soft little pillows that form a single coating.

In order to make such cushion-seat cushions on chairs with your own hands, you must stock up on the following materials:

• Cotton fabric. The ideal option is flaps with a small ornament, selected according to the color scheme.

Important! Remember that you need to choose those patterns and colors that are exactly suitable for the design of your interior.

• Flaps of fabric for lining - they should be denser than the previous one.
• Filler for future squares.
• Centimeter tape, ruler, scissors for fabric.
• Needles, threads, safety pins.
• Iron, sewing machine.

In order to sew the seats on the chairs with your own hands according to the pattern, you must follow this procedure:

• Measure the surface area of ​​the seat and add 1 cm for a loose fit. Calculate the size of the squares.
• Prepare patterns for the upper squares. Remember to leave seam allowances.
• Cut 32 squares for the top and for the pad.
• Make folds on the upper workpieces, backing 2 cm and 3.5 cm.
• Sew the upper and lower squares closer to the edge in pairs.
• Arrange squares on a flat horizontal surface in random order.
• Start taking in order the pillows, stitch them first in rows, and then all together.

Important! Ready-made stitches should not be visible on the front side of the seat cushion with your own hands.

• On the inside of each box, make a small incision of up to 3 cm.
• Carefully place the filler of your choice inside.
• Check the uniformity of the filling of the squares.
• Sew all cuts. The main work can be considered completed.
• Cut a square (it should be slightly larger than the workpiece) from decorative fabric, lay a workpiece on it, cut off the extra squares at the corners.
• Combine the contours, process them with an overlock or zigzag.
• Prepare a trim strip of the desired size. Fold it in half lengthwise, iron it.
• Make a border.

The work is completed!

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Stock footage

Seat on a chair is a very practical and, at the same time, very comfortable and beautiful thing. From this article, you learned how to sew seatlets on a stool with your own hands, which means that now you can update it yourself without any problems.