Italian designers gave us such an amazing invention as a chair-bag, which you can sew yourself with your hands in a few hours. This practical and very comfortable piece of interior refers to the so-called frameless furniture, the main elements of which are fabric and filler. The main task that confronts the hostess, who decided to sew a soft bag-chair with her own hands, is a well-made pattern and a properly chosen volume of the product.
If to generalize, then the scheme of the finished seat-bag looks as follows:
Burned with an idea? Then this master class is for you!
We will need:
- decorative fabric for the outer cover (2.5 x 1.4 meters);
- Sturdy fabric for the inner cover (2,5х1,4 meters);
- polystyrene (foam plastic granules) - 350 liters;
- synthepuh;
- strong threads.
- We will sew our chair according to the pattern:
- Transfer the image to paper. The bottom of the chair is to be sewed from individual pieces of fabric to minimize waste. On the tissue cut, the cut out patterns should be arranged in the following sequence:
- Now you can begin to stitch the prepared parts. First, sew the wedges by joining them with the front side inward and sewing on one side. Do not forget about the centimeter allowance! Then trim the wedges from the front.
- On the one hand, sew a forty-centimeter zipper, which will be needed to fill the seat-bag with polystyrene. To the top of the product (a detail with six facets) we sew velcro. She will not let the product deform inside.
- Now fill the inner cover for the seat-bag with expanded polystyrene. It is more convenient to do with a paper funnel. It remains to fasten and tightly fix the zipper. Be sure to test the chair so that if necessary, increase or decrease the amount of filler.
- The outer cover is sewn in the same way, but the lightning should be a meter.
- Now we connect both cases with the help of internal Velcro, and the zipper on the outer button.
It is not necessary to be limited to the concrete form of such chair. It can be not only pear-shaped, but also round, oval, in the form of a banana or heart. For example, such an original and soft soccer ball can decorate your apartment, or become an element of the design of a children's room , if you use the proposed pattern:
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Helpful Tips
These chairs are very light due to the lack of a rigid frame and weightless filler. However, one should be extremely cautious with him. After sewing, be sure to clean the randomly scattered granules with a vacuum cleaner. The presence of such small items in the house is very dangerous, especially for young children.
Than usually fill a seat-bag? Expanded polystyrene and sintepuhom. The synthesizer is used as a filler for two reasons. First, polystyrene granules will deform with time, shrink, and sintepux allows the chair to return volume. Secondly, the movement of polystyrene beads in the case can create characteristic sounds, and synthepus minimizes them. Filler in the product should not be more than 70%. Otherwise, the strongest threads and even the fabric can not withstand the load.
Concerning the decorative fabric that you plan to use for sewing an outer cover, the choice should be made in favor of materials with dirt-repellent properties that are well cleaned and blurred. If the material is not breathable, then at the top of the bag you need to make holes for the air (suitable eyelets). But the inner case is worth sewing from a strong synthetics, since it is he who will take on all the load after you sit in a chair.
Also very easy to sew and beautiful decorative puffs , which you can decorate the interior of the living room or bedroom.