Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Alter The Upholstery On The Chair

Chairs that can be reupholstered easily.


Chairs effort oppressive inside the den and oftentimes the essence on the Stool may shift damaged or stained. For a facile dining time or kitchen-style Stool, replacing the upholstery on a Stool seat and slip-covering a Stool back can add agedness of servicing to the career of the Stool. Matching the seat and the slip embrace allows you to restore the Stool to just out colours, patterns and fabrics.


Instructions


Change s Dining Chair Seat Cover


1. Unscrew the seat from the Stool, using a screwdriver. Normally a screw is in Everyone corner on the underside of the seat cushion.


2. Strip off the existing structure, using a screwdriver and pliers. Remove as many of the staples as you can.


3. Apartment quilt batting on the employment table. Position the seat cushion over the batting. Stretch the batting over the front path of the cushion to the back. Staple in the centre approximately 2 inches from the seat contour. Pull the batting up over the back wrinkle and staple in the centre. Pull and staple the centre of Everyone side. Hang in stretching and stapling from the centre outside working your course on all sides of the seat. Staple every inch. Support the corners. Measure from the hem to the bottom of the arm hole and cut hook and loop tape to fit. Repeat for both sides. Cut two pieces of 3-inch-wide grosgrain ribbon 36 inches long in a color that works with the fabric.


Pull the essence over and staple from the centre outward the identical conduct you did with the batting. Staple every inch and relieve your corners. Intersect off any excess structure and screw the seat back onto the Stool.


Slip-Cover a Dining Chair Back


5. Fold upholstery fabric face down over the top of the chair back with a few inches extra resting on the seat. Pin along the top edge, following the shape of the chair. Pin from the widest point on the back straight down. Stop your pins at the top of the arm if the chair has arms.


6. Sew along your pin lines with a sewing machine. Trim your seams to 1/2 inch. Turn the fabric right side out and fit the fabric on the chair. The cover may be loose near the seat. Fit the cover around the arm and measure how much of a gap you need to leave for the arm. Fit the front and back hems to fall just above the seat.


7. Remove the cover and sew the hems. Chop off any excess batting with scissors.4. Position the textile face down on the effort table. Provided the material has a replica or draft that should be centred on the seat, probation that it is aligned. Apply no fray to the ends of the ribbon.


8. Sew hook-and-loop tape from the hem to the arm hole on the back pieces of the cover on both sides. Slip one end of the ribbon underneath the arm hole and with the other half of the hook and loop tape crossing over the ribbon. Sew one piece of the ribbon and tape onto the front pieces of the cover on both sides.


9. Slide your slip cover over the chair. Connect the hook-and-loop tapes under the arm holes. Draw the ribbons around to the back to gather the fabric around the contour of the chair and tie the ribbons into a nice bow.