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Thursday, July 16, 2009

VIP chair cover

We love to celebrate and thought it would be fun to make a special chair cover for the "VIP" we are celebrating. This cover is so simple to make and sure to make the Very Important Person in your life feel like they are king or queen for the day.


First, measure your chair around the back with a tape measure. Add one and a half inches to that measurement and cut out two pieces. If you have a square back chair you can use the fold of the fabric as your top edge so you only have to cut one piece (doubled) and sew down two sides. If you have a curved chair, you may want to lay your chair down on the fabric and trace it to get the shape.

Second, you can either hem the bottom of the cover or do like we did and just serge it so it doesn't fray.

To add letters, follow our tutorial for simple machine applique, and check out this explanation of how we used a personal die cutting machine to cut the letters. Easy peasy.

You can personalize these any way you want. Here are some ideas:

Bride To Be
Mom To Be
Child's Name
Thinking Chair
Time Out
Superstar
Birthday Boy (or Girl)

Happy celebrating!

11 comments:

  1. So cute! My kids would love this!

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  2. What a fantastic Sewing Project used for the chair! Very cute!

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  3. What a cool idea!!! I posted a link to your tutorial on Craft Gossip Sewing:
    http://sewing.craftgossip.com/tutorial-chair-cover-to-mark-special-days/2009/07/16/
    --Anne

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  4. What a cool idea!! I posted a link to your tutorial on Craft Gossip Sewing:
    http://sewing.craftgossip.com/tutorial-chair-cover-to-mark-special-days/2009/07/16/
    --Anne

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  5. This is the newly concept and it looks really cute. I hope this idea would love to other visitors as well. Thanks for sharing your thought with us.

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  6. Great idea...thanks for sharing!

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  7. Love the idea. Thanks for sharing. Will save for later use!

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  8. thats very adorable!

    trisha
    momdot

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  9. Wow!Great idea,I must make this! Thank,s for so nice sharing.
    Plastic Card.

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