Everyone knows that things and decor items that are made with one's own hand can serve not only for practical purposes. They will bring a unique atmosphere of coziness and comfort into the interior of their owner’s housing.
Recently, interior elements in the style of hand made have gained immense popularity among skillful housewives and well-known designers.
One such item is a padded seat for a chair. Such a creation will make your furniture comfortable and become a unique highlight of the room interior. Of course, subject to the right color scheme, materials and manufacturing techniques. More on this will be discussed in this article. We will tell you how to make a soft seat on a chair with your own hands.
What could be a pillow for a chair
There are many ways to make a soft seat for a chair. When choosing a specific one, focus on your skills and abilities, as well as on the availability of the necessary materials and the model of the chair or stool for which the seat is made.
Cover options
Fabric
If you know how to sew and you have a sewing machine, making a chair cover will not be difficult for you. The main thing is to choose the right fabric and filler material.
Depending on your imagination, decorative details (buttons, ribbons, braid, etc.) can be used to make such a cover.
Before sewing, it is necessary to make a special pattern that repeats the shapes and sizes of the chair seat. It is desirable that it be made of a sufficiently dense material, such as cardboard.
Next, you should cut two parts from fabric for this blank, and one more from soft filler. When cutting parts, it is necessary to set aside an additional 1-2 cm on seam allowances on each side.
The fabric parts, folded face to face, are sewn from three sides. Next, the product is turned out and the part from the filler is placed inside. After that, the fourth side of the cover is carefully sutured. Optionally, you can sew on an oblique trim on all sides of the cover.
The next step is to create ties and fasten decor elements.
Knitted
Case is optional. You can knit a soft pillow on a chair. Moreover, the needlewoman herself will choose the method of knitting: knitting or crocheting.
Filler
The use of soft filler in the manufacture of a chair cover is designed to make the product soft and comfortable.
Most often, foam rubber is used for this purpose.. It is a cheap and affordable material that perfectly copes with this task.
Batting, which is a cotton with fleece, also applies to popular materials from natural raw materials.
In addition, many use synthetic winterizer.
To more expensive materials include seaweed.
How to mount on a chair
The simplest and most simple option for attaching a seat to a chair is ties.
They can be made from the same fabric as for sewing the case itself. If the product is decorated with ribbons or oblique trim, the ties can be made of them.
Tip. For chairs without a back or stools, a cover is suitable, around the perimeter of which an elastic band is sewn for fixation.
To fix the seat on a stool, it is also convenient to use rubber bands sewn at the corners of the product.
Another option is use of Velcro.
How to sew a quilted seat
Quilted cushions for chairs are not only soft and comfortable, but also durable. After all the stitch does not allow the soft filler to stray and deform. In addition, such products look very original and aesthetically pleasing.
Before sewing a quilted seat, you should decide what size and shape it will be. After that, we make a blank of cardboard for cutting out the details of the future seat.
- On the resulting blank we cut out two fabric parts. And one more, from soft filler.
- We put all the parts together so that the filler is inside and the fabric parts are facing out. We fix everything with needles.
- On the surface of the workpiece we apply marking for future stitches. We sew the product on the sewing machine according to the markup.
- Next, you should treat the edges with an oblique inlay, at the same time providing for the tie for the pillow.
The quilted chair seat is ready!
How to crochet a seat cover and knitting needles
If sewing is not your thing, but you perfectly crochet or knitting, then the original and beautiful seat can be knitted! And it’s not necessary to buy expensive yarn for this.
Tip. For knitting, both multi-colored remains of threads and strips from old t-shirts are perfect.
Crochet
For knitting, we also need a hook number 5.
The most common and easiest way to crochet a seat is to knit a so-called grandmother's square.
IMPORTANT! You can decide for yourself whether to tie one large square onto the entire seat, or the finished product will consist of several parts interconnected.
Scheme
- To get started, dial six air loops and lock them into a ring.
- Knit 16 double crochet through it.
- The next row will consist of 16 double crochets, separated by 2 air loops.
- Then - the series is similar to the previous one. But to form the corners of the product, add 4 double crochets, separated by 3 air loops.
- We knit subsequent rows according to the same principle. We expand the canvas by adding double crochets and air loops on each side of the square.
Spokes
Seats, knitted, look no less original. When knitting such products, patterns of "braids", "openwork braids", "spikelets", "cones", "braid", etc. are often used. Focus on your skill level and imagination.
The manufacturing principle is simple. According to the selected pattern, the fabric of the desired size is knitted.
For fixing on a chair, you can knit ties from the same yarn as the main product, or you can pull the fabric on the seat with elastic.
How to make a pillow from pompons
Seat from pompons will have a bright and unusual appearance. To make it, you should take yarn thicker, preferably 2 to 3 colors, combining with each other. As well as to us need scissors and a special grid for needlework.
It’s not difficult to make a pompom.
- Wrap the right amount of yarn on your fingers or cardboard. You should have a thick ring of thread.
- It is tied in half, and the edges are cut.
- As a result, we get a fluffy ball of thread.
Each of these pompons needs to be tied to a grid. Optionally, you can lay out a specific pattern from them.
Some fabric should be sewn to the back of the net to hide the knots of threads that secured the pompons. The product can be supplemented with ribbons or ties made of yarn at your discretion.
IMPORTANT! These seats look very harmonious in the children's room. Touching multi-colored pompons, the baby will develop his tactile sensations.
How to make a patchwork sewing machine
Products made in the patchwork technique, or, according to the folk, patchwork, can fill any room with home comfort and an atmosphere of family happiness.
To make a seat in this technique is not difficult at all. And correctly selected materials and colors of the product guarantee a unique result.
For work, you will need shreds of multi-colored fabric. They should be the same size, filler, fabric for the bottom of the seat, threads, needles, sewing machine.
IMPORTANT! When choosing a fabric for patchwork, try to ensure that it is the same in density and texture and does not shrink when washing.
- Measure the size of the stool. Having folded in an arbitrary lock, flaps, sew them from the wrong side. Thus, we get a canvas of flaps of a given size.
- From a whole canvas of fabric and soft filler, cut blanks of the same size.
- Put all the details together in a sandwich.
- Sew them with a sewing machine. Sew the edges of the product with an oblique trim and sew the stitches.
- If desired, you can stitch the surface of the seat, so that the filler does not go astray or deform in the future.
Useful Tips for Making Seats on Chairs
- When choosing materials for the manufacture of seat covers, give preference to natural fabrics and yarn. The product should tolerate washing well and not be deformed in the future.
- Try not to use decorative elements such as beads, decorative stones, beads. This will make the seat box impractical and inconvenient to use.
- When choosing yarn for knitting a seat belt on a chair, make sure that it will not leave traces of fibers and threads on clothes.
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