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Sunday, 29 May 2011

No-Sew Seat Cushions

Posted on 19:04 by gayle
       

       A few months ago, we ordered a bistro set for the deck from Amazon, but we ordered the table and the chairs from separate sellers to get the best price.  The chairs arrived in timely fashion, but a few short days after ordering the table, I received an email saying that the table was sold out.  I eventually found the table from another seller....or so I thought.  I ordered the table, but to my surprise it arrived much smaller than I imagined.  That's because I didn't clearly read what I ordered.  The table that I ended up ordering was a matching coffee table to the bistro set ~ oops!  Soooooo, I had to return the small table and begin my search all over again.  After a two month wait,  I eventually settled on a table from Target.  I say all of that to say this ~ the table and chairs have arrived and are on the deck, which means I got to make cushions for the chairs last week!  Here's how I spent my afternoon this past Wednesday :)


I bought two of these foam cushions for $2.99 a piece at Hobby Lobby.


I already had the ribbon, but I bought one yard of outdoor fabric at JoAnn's for $9.00 after the 40% discount.  I also bought one packet of heat-n-bond for $1.99. 



After measuring and cutting two pieces of fabric to fit the foam padding, I applied the heat-n- bond to the backside edge of one of my pieces of fabric.

I placed the second piece of fabric directly on top of the first piece of fabric backside up, and then I apply the heat to the heat-n-bond.  I repeated this process for three of the four sides.


Once the heat-n-bond was applied to three of the sides, I turned the fabric outside-in.  On the fourth side, I created a hem on the top and bottom pieces of fabric using the heat-n-bond


I stuffed the foam in the fabric and cut four small holes in the edges of the fabric (left, right, top and bottom).  Then, I tied ribbon to the fabric using the holes.


 I hot glued the two hem lines together to seal the fourth side of the fabric shut.


The finished project......
.....fits perfectly!


I secured it to the chair by tying the ribbon to the chair.


This project was less than $20 ~ Love it!


The cushions definitely make the bistro set look better! 


And of course, we broke in the new table and chairs by having dinner on the deck.


Tilapia, shrimp scampi and peas....yummo ;)










This week I'll be linking up at The Thrify Home (http://www.thethriftyhome.com/2011/05/88th-penny-pinching-party.html) and all of the other link parties on my link page.


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