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Craft: Dressing Up an Old Chair

attosa
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July 7, 2016

An old chair all dressed up. My baby niece is visiting us from Paris. It's a short visit so we went out to the thrift shops and found this old child/doll chair for $2. It wasn't the best looking thing, but it was tiny enough to be her perfect size. We dressed it up with some cloth scraps and now she's in love with it. You can use a sewing machine or hot glue, I've done it both ways.

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Total Time: 45 minutes

Yield: 1 chair

Supplies:

1 old chair
fabric to cover the seat
optional trim fabric
large sheet of paper (I used an expired calendar)
pen or pencil
scissors
sewing machine or hot glue

Getting prepared to measure the stencil for the chair seat.

Steps:

Start by covering the seat of your chair with your large piece of paper. This will act as a pattern for the fabric.

Measuring the chair seat.

Dot around the folds of the paper with a pen or pencil.

Marking the edges on paper

Marking the seat of the chair on paper.

Cut out the shape of the seat pattern you just drew.

Cutting the paper stencil out.

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Place the pattern on top of your fabric and cut around to make your seat cover.

Cutting padded fabric for the chair.

Cut two 8 to 10 inch long strips of the fabric. These will be the ties for the seat cover to around the back of your chair.

Ties for the seat of the chair.

Sew or hot glue the straps onto the seat cover, one on each back corner.

Attaching the ties to the seat of the chair.

Another view of the ties.

If desired, add a fabric lining trim to hang down the sides of the chair. We went this route to give it an extra girly twist.

Trimming the edge of the chair seat.

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Now tie the long strips to the back of the chair. All done!

Plain white chair, before decorating.

Cushion tied to the back of the chair.

Chair with new embellished seat.

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cybergrannie
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July 12, 20170 found this helpful

That is so cute! I'm sure she loves it - now how will she get it on the plane home? (Wouldn't that be nice.)

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cybergrannie
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July 13, 20170 found this helpful

Sorry - belated message - just looked at July and did not notice 2016 but I hope she visits often.

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