Pick your favorite fabric for a custom addition to your decor.

Skills Required: Beginner.There are several steps to this project, but thesewing is simple.

Even if youre a beginning sewist, you should be able to accomplish this with some patience.

diy chair cushions

My Mama Marcie has a knack for antiques.

Her house is filled with them, and she always finds the most beautiful furniture pieces.

The chair is precious, but the seat is flat as a pancake and very uncomfortable.

sew a chair cushion

I think this turned out to be just adorable!

I have a thing for vintage westerns, and these cowgirls make me swoon!

The fabric is an old print from Alexander Henry that I picked up at antique fair.

how to make seat cushions with ties

Heres how I made this .

Make Seat Cushions

Equipment

Materials

Instructions

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how to make a seat cushion

Piece of fabric laying on a table with a pair of scissors

Rounding the bottom edge of a piece of fabric with a pair of scissors

Two strips of polka dot fabric on top of the cushion fabric

Folding polka dot fabric in half lengthwise

Pushing a dowel rod into a fabric tube

Cutting a tie in half with a pair of scissors

Fabric ties pinned to the front and back of the cushion fabric

Sewing the fabric on a sewing machine

Clipping the corners of a seat cushion close to the seams

Turning a seat cushion right side out

Stuffing the open end of cushion with polyfill

Fabric and covered button assembly

Placing a dot for the button using a fabric pen

Sewing a button through a chair cushion using thread and a needle

Fingers pulling thread through fabric

Button on a chair pad with ties

how to make chair cushions