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Chic new dress for an old chair

Instructions No. 314

Instructions No. 314

Difficulty: Advanced

Working time: 1 hour

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An old chair gets a fancy new dress. With colourful fabric and a sophisticated colourful design, the simple piece of furniture comes to life again.

Matching: chair cushion and chair
Cut the fabrics to size and trim them with zigzag stitch. Halve the cuttings for the ribbons right to right, on three
Sew up the sides and turn them over. Iron and sew the large cut-out twice 2 cm on one short side, iron and sew the other short side once 2 cm and sew.

Place the blank with the right side facing up, fold the side with the double hem so that it overlaps 40 cm. Place the rest of the fabric from the other side over it. Fix the open edges with Pins and sew up with 2 cm distance to the edge. Cut narrow slits in the width of the tapes in one of the folded edges, lay the tapes inwards and sew them on. Turn the cover over.

Iron the iron-on fleece with the rough side on the apple fabric and cut out the motifs. Remove the protective foil and place it on the
Iron on the pillowcase, while applying permanent iron-on film. Sew decorative seams around the applications and place the cover in the cover. Sand the chair and apply a sand-coloured primer, and apply an orange primer to the crossbar of the backrest. When dry, glue on individual apples with UHU Contact Kraftkleber and paint on black decorative stitches.

Wipe brown paint over the chair and the figure cone with a damp Paint sponge After drying with brush and Paint sponge a wood look in the colours Brown, Black and Sand design.

Ingenious: an apple branch as a practical bag suspension
Pre-drill a hole in the side of the backrest and mount the figure cone with a long screw. Cut out two identical leaves from Felt and embroider the leaf veins on one of them with black Embroidery twist . Then the other leaf behind it and hem it, fix it to the figure cone with hot glue.
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Material list

Cotton fabric "Uni", Golden yellow
10,95 €
(1 m2 = 7,30 €)
Quantity:
Foam for chair cushions/rests
3,45 €
Quantity:
VBS Iron-on fleece - Adhesive fleece, approx. 90 x 25 cm
2,99 €
(1 m2 = 13,29 €)
Quantity:
VBS Craft felt, 20 x 30 cm, Light green
0,65 €
(1 m2 = 10,83 €)
Quantity:
Figure cone
4,39 €
Quantity:
VBS Craft paint, 50 ml, Brown
3,29 €
(1 l = 65,80 €)
Quantity:
UHU Power Adhesive Creative, 31 g
5,79 €
(1 kg = 186,77 €)
Quantity:
VBS Craft paint, 50 ml, Antique White
3,29 €
(1 l = 65,80 €)
Quantity:
VBS Craft paint, 50 ml, Black
3,29 €
(1 l = 65,80 €)
Quantity:
VBS Craft paint, 50 ml, Orange
3,29 €
(1 l = 65,80 €)
Quantity:
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