Chair cushions - choose the right material and filler

Soft seats will make any chair or stool more comfortable, and their design can transform any room. On the hard seat for a long time not to sit, we need cushions for chairs. They are able to bring any place in comfort to the chair, regardless of the functionality of the room. There are many simple ways to make soft seat covers, including sewing, crocheting and knitting, making pompons on a mesh basis, and you should talk about each one in more detail.

The choice of material for the manufacture of pillows

Everyone knows that hard wood or plastic seats are not very comfortable. Flat or quilted pillows on the stools with their own hands make it more comfortable to chat over a cup of tea or work at a computer desk. And the interior becomes unique, thanks to the choice of fabric.

Primary requirements:

• the practicality of the material (especially if it is pillows on kitchen stools);
• dense non-flowing or non-woven structure (remember that they will be fidgeted all the time);
• pliable for sewing and processing the basis (some types of knitwear and faux suede are difficult to sew with your hands or scribble on a typewriter);
• Attractive seat cushion colors on the chair.

Much depends on the style of pillows, the configuration of chairs, as well as on the interior, which are designed to decorate the soft seats. For example, if these are stools for a kitchen in retro or country style, a fabric in a flower, a strip or a cage will do, the patch is decorated using patchwork technique.

Knitting hooks under the “grandmother's square” will look even more interesting if you arrange the covers for homemade pillows in this form. It looks beautiful and any pillow for the chair is knitted round, made with knitting or crocheting, if you approach it creatively.

Sometimes you can use ready-made seats without modification to the configuration, if the form matches. But it is better to update the covers on the pillows for a stool or chair, choosing an interesting fabric, furniture dermantin or eco-leather.

What is suitable as a filler

Inside any pillow, as a rule, there is a down or a feather. But this is not the case, especially since the pen under the seat "climbs" and periodically pricks. Vata is also not suitable, she goes into clods. Suitable as a filler:

• thin furniture foam rubber (it needs to be cut);

  Filler - thin furniture foam

• synthetic winterizer and synthetic fur;

  Sintepon and sintepukh in comparison

• buckwheat and sunflower husks;

  Environmentally friendly, natural material - buckwheat hulls

• small trimming of yarn and non-woven linen (garment production waste);
• holofiber (holds the shape perfectly);

  Filler for toys and pillows holofiber

• loose fillers in the form of small granules (as for bean bags and soft toys).

  Loose Polystyrene Filler

In most cases, do the pillows on the bench with your own hands in 2-3 layers, if one of the fillers is unstable. Under foam rubber and holofiber it is enough to have the correct pattern.

Pillows on stools and chairs must be fixed so that they do not slide off the seats:

• strings;
• tapes;
• stickies;
• rubber bands.

What tools and materials needed for the manufacture of soft seats

Variants of making pillows for sitting with their own hands weight, but in each case requires its own set of tools, accessories and materials. Do not forget that there are summer and winter fabrics or yarn, and the seat must be warm.

Buttons are needed not only for quilting (picking) the filler so that it does not lump, but also as a decor. They can be covered with the same cloth or leather, and beautiful smooth buttons on the stem of wood, mother-of-pearl or imitation of ornamental stones will do.

Materials Instruments

1. Flat cushion with strings. Thick fabric, sewing thread, foam rubber or other filler. Sewing machine, needle and thread for basting, scissors, cardboard under the patterns.

   Flat seat cushion with ties to the chair

2. Surround seat. Practical material, volumetric filler, buttons for picking. Similar to the top description.

   Cushion on the chair with a soft filling has such a relief form

3. Case for stool knitting. Warm yarn of different colors, filler. Circular needles, scissors.

   Cover for stool, knitting

4. Crocheted case. Similar to the top description. Hook, scissors.

   Multicolored crochet stool cover

5. Cape on a pompon chair. Remains of colored yarn and mesh base, where the pompons are attached are ready. Similar to the top description.

   Colorful pompom chair cover with armrests

How to make a pattern on the pillow for stools and chairs

Before you sew a pillow on a chair with your own hands, step by step instructions to help:

1. Make a pattern (2 parts), circling in any convenient way the shape of the seat, or draw a template according to the measurements, if the “seat” is of the correct round or square shape.

   Pattern - 1 detail with a single-sided fastener plate made of basic fabric and another without a strap, a double strap AB length for the bottom of the fastener and 4 parts with a side height and length as the perimeter of the backrest stand

2. Before laying the patterns on the finished fabric, be sure to retreat to leave seam allowances up to 1.5 cm and add 2-3 cm of spare volume for the filler.
3. It is convenient to work on the fabric, if you fold it in half and attach patterns (template), so the pattern will be more accurate and symmetrical.
4. The template is applied on the seamy side and encircled with chalk or soft pencil.
5. At first, only 3 sides are stitched out on the wrong side - front and 2 side, when the seams are completed, the product is turned out.

   A level and a side we quilted by squares with a synthetic winterizer for rigidity giving

6. Other soft cushions for sitting, similarly, depending on how many chairs or stools.

   We fasten the fasteners with the face to the inside, we sew, turn them in, for sturdiness, we sew away and sew the velcro

   We grind off the button stitching from the short ends, turn it over, trim it along the edge and sew it to the bottom of the pillow.

7. In almost finished products from the back side they put a filler, straighten it well and sweep the seam in such a way as to wrap the cut edges inward.

   We pin the side and sew to the bottom of the pillow, we draw it along the edge of the side

   We grind off the bar with the seat on the short sides, turn it over, we trim it on all sides, we punch the hinges

8. At the end of the work, the back seam is sewn up tightly and stitches are sewn. For the stool, they are not needed, it is better to sew gum to wear on the corners.

   Fill our foam rubber inside, fasten buttons, velcro and you can sit

As you can see, nothing complicated, if there is at least the primary skills for sewing.

How to make a soft seat out of yarn

Yarn is a universal material for needlework, you can knit and crochet from it or make colored pompons. Any kind of work with yarn is suitable for making pillows for chairs.

1. We crochet according to the finished pattern, using ready-made square, rectangular and circular patterns, depending on the shape of the seat. You can knit from colored squares or rhombuses to get a semblance of patchwork technique, if you want colorful pillows.

   Crochet pillows for stools

   A set of cushions for the stools of colored yarn

2. Shaped yarn resembling “fur” or “weed is an unmatched material for a pillow on a stool, stool, pouf or chair. It just fits a solid canvas, but it is desirable to sew it on top of the ready-made cushion of thick fabric with ties.
3. Soft pompons cut from the remnants of colored yarn, winding on the pattern or fingers. Then you need to tie this base in one place and cut the skein, fluff - you get a fluffy ball with ties. These pompons at the same distance (or randomly) are tied to any net basis (plastic, curtain fabric, crochet sirloin mesh).

   To create medium-sized pompons, follow these steps.

   Crochet Seats from pompons

Obviously, there is nothing difficult for people with skillful hands, imagination and the desire to create. We have prepared a selection of inspirational photos, looking at which you can choose a decent role model. It all depends on the level of skill and what you can - sew or knit. If there are no skills, but you really want to do something yourself, learn the technique of making colored pompons, it will come in handy in life.

Video: How to make a soft yarn seat

Photo gallery of self-made cushions for chairs and stools: