How to Make a Kitchen Chair Seat

Making your own seat cushion for a kitchen chair allows you to choose a fabric that perfectly matches your dcor. This kitchen chair seat is fairly simple to sew using a cushion form that is the appropriate size for your chair. This method assumes the cushion form is square, but it can easily be adapted for other dimensions. The cover for the cushion is removable to allow for washing and it has fabric ties so that the seat cushion can be secured to the spokes on the back of the chair.

Instructions

1

Measure the cushion form purchased to fit your kitchen chair seat and note the dimensions on a piece of paper. Add 2 inches to the side-length of the cushion form--this is the cut width for your fabric. Multiply the side-length of the cushion form by 2.5--this is the cut length for your fabric. Iron the fabric well, mark the cut dimensions calculated above on the fabric, then cut out the rectangle.

2

Cut four additional fabric pieces measuring approximately 6 inches-by-2 inches for the ties (optional). Make the ties by folding these pieces in half along their length with the right sides together. Sew along three sides, turn the ties right-sides-out, leaving the fourth edge open.

3

Press one short end of the large fabric rectangle over to the wrong side by a 1/2-inch, then another 1/2 inch to make a hem. Pin and sew along the lower edge of this hem using straight stitches. Repeat this to sew a hem on the other short edge of the fabric rectangle.

4

Place your fabric rectangle wrong-side-down on a flat surface and position the cushion form in the center. Fold the two hemmed edges towards the center of the cushion form and arrange the fabric so that the two edges overlap in the middle. Place pins at the fold-lines at the top and bottom of the fabric, then remove the cushion form.

5

Press the marked folds into the fabric and pin the side seams, pinning through all three layers at once where they overlap.

6

Take this to your chair and center it on the seat with one of the pinned-side seams along the back of the chair. Mark two positions for the ties so they are aligned with spokes on the back of the chair. Pin two ties at each of these marked positions, aligning the raw edges of the ties with the raw edge of the seam so they will be sewn into the seam.

7

Sew the two side seams with a 1/2-inch seam allowance. Turn the piece right-sides out and insert the cushion form inside through the opening. Use the ties to attach the cushion to your kitchen chair seat.