DIY bean bag chair

The modern average person has enough free time, which he would like to spend usefully, but at the same time doing an enjoyable process. The best way to do this is to create various items with your own hands. There are many different areas of such activities: knitting, embroidery, sewing. But today we want to talk about creating furniture yourself. Namely, about the process of making a frameless chair.

Chair bag - options

This wonderful furniture is easy to make. It is perfect for any type of room: bedroom, children's room or living room. Its soft shape allows a person to relax and unwind in its embrace after a hard day at work. However, it may differ in external form:

• bucket-shaped;
• pear-shaped;
• round.

It can also vary in size (large, medium and small) and color. Coloring is at your discretion and preference. It can be monochromatic, two-color or variegated, the main rule is to match the rest of the color scheme of the room and combine colors with each other.

The principle of creating a bean bag chair

Even a novice craftsman can make this item. The main thing is to follow a thoughtful procedure:

• Selection and acquisition of materials and tools.
• Model selection.
• Construction of a pattern.
• Cut out the fabrics.
• Making the interior.
• Filling the case with filler.
• Sewing the outer part of the chair.
• Putting a cover on furniture.

Reference! Using different options for the top part, you can achieve different styles in furniture design.

What material to choose for the shell of the chair

The choice of fabric for the base and cover is one of the most important stages in creating this item. The quality of the future item and its service life will depend on this.

For the base it is best to use elastic synthetic fabric, but thick cotton or raincoat fabric is also suitable. The outer cover must be made of abrasion-resistant material. You can use fabric intended for furniture upholstery or dermantine.

When choosing, keep in mind that the outer cover will have to be washed or cleaned periodically. Therefore, choose a fabric that is easy to care for.

What material to choose for filler

The next stage is the choice of filler to fill the base of the chair. You can use both traditional materials and unusual analogues:

• The traditional filler for this option is polystyrene foam. You can buy it at a hardware store.It looks like small foam balls.
• Hay. When using this natural material, you need to carefully monitor the absence of thorns and hard stems. Another disadvantage is its fragility (from 6 months to 1 year).
• A small grain. In particular, millet works especially well.
• Down, feathers or wool.

Attention! Natural fillers often do not cause harm to health (the exception is an individual allergic reaction), but require periodic replacement.

What tools are needed for manufacturing

When starting to make this item, you should stock up on everything you need for the job:

• enough fabric for the base and outer cover;
• threads;
• scissors;
• pattern paper;
• filler;
• household sewing machine;
• fasteners: zippers, Velcro, snaps or buttons;
• decorative elements.

You will need the last item if you want to decorate the chair in an unusual way.

DIY pear chair: the simplest version

The easiest way to make this item would be to create it in the form of a large rectangular pillow. To perform this you will need to connect two rectangular pieces of material on three sides. And insert a zipper into the fourth edge. Pour the filler inside and make the cover in the same way.

Once the thing is large enough, you can even lie on it. Also, such an item can be beautifully decorated with ribbons or pompoms.

How to calculate the dimensions of a chair

The size of the item being made will depend on the person it is intended for. There are three standard values:

• The child seat has the following parameters: height - 85 cm, width - 70 cm.
• Average: height - 110 cm, width - 85 cm.This type is the female version.
• Large: height - 135 cm, width - 100 cm.

Creating a pattern

Most often, the pear-shaped chair is used in everyday life. To create a pattern, you can create a drawing yourself or make your own adjustments to the basic drawing:

Basic patterns. The picture shows several options for patterns for sewing this product. You must decide for yourself which one to use.

Transfer the selected drawing to graph paper and use scissors to cut out the parts. You can also use old newspapers or leftover wallpaper as pattern paper. The last option will allow you to get a reusable pattern.

Step-by-step instructions for making a chair with your own hands

The sewing workflow can be divided into the following stages:

• Lay out the fabric and cut in the details according to the prepared pattern.

Important! Cutting is done on the wrong side of the fabric. Don't forget to add one and a half centimeters on each side for seam allowances.

• Baste the side seams. For this action, you can use light quilting with a contrasting thread or pinching the fabric using safety pins. Then complete them using a sewing machine.
• Press seams.
• Make the edge seams of both parts in the same way.
• Fill the inside with filler and sew it up.
• Sew a fastener into the hole in the outer cover.
• Place the cover on the inside.

How to make a bean bag chair in the shape of a soccer ball with your own hands

The difference between this model is that the end result is a round thing with a two-tone color. To implement this you will need fabric of two contrasting colors. You will also need a certain pattern.

Pattern for a product in the shape of a soccer ball

Most often, this product can be found in the homes of young people or fans of this game. But such a product will also serve as decoration. For sewing, use the following pattern.

We manufacture individual elements

To sew the products you will need to cut out:

• twenty hexagonal light details;
• twelve pentagonal dark elements;
• a pair of fasteners.

Connecting the elements

When connecting the parts into a single fabric, follow the specified arrangement of the parts: for one hexagon there are three pentagons, which are sewn across the edge.

The elements are stitched together using a hand seam or using a sewing machine. But to do this, you must first sweep the parts or connect them using safety pins.

When connecting, step back 1.5 CM from the edge.

Reference! When performing this model, be careful and clearly monitor the correct connection of the parts.

Filling the chair. To add volume, it is better to use artificial filler. Expanded polystyrene or crushed polystyrene foam is suitable for this. The second option can affect people's health, since when it is crushed, dust is formed, which over time penetrates into the air that a person breathes. A more harmless option would be to use natural fillers. In particular, this applies to filling the base with dried medicinal herbs: St. John's wort, mint, plantain, coltsfoot and others. Another good option would be to fill the base with millet. But for this, the cereal needs to be thoroughly washed and after a year the filler needs to be replaced. This rule applies to all other natural fillers, with the exception of wool and down, feathers.For these substances, it is enough to wash the contents in a soapy solution and dry thoroughly.

Final stage

The last step in creating this item is to insert a fastening element: a zipper, button or Velcro. It is used to hold the filler inside the base. Lightning performs this role best.

You can also sew a fabric loop to the chair for ease of use. This element is used to lift it from the floor and easily move it from place to place.

Tips for sewing a bean bag chair

And in conclusion, allow me to give a few recommendations that will help in creating this extraordinary thing:

• To make it easier to fill the product with filler, use a regular plastic bottle, having previously cut off its bottom.
• Choose balls of the smallest diameter for stuffing. Large balls quickly wrinkle and the chair will lose its shape.
• If over time the furniture has lost its shape, you need to add more filler or replace it completely.
• When sewing, consider a ventilation system.
• Shake the chair periodically to prevent its contents from caking.

As you have already seen, creating such a wonderful thing is quite simple. And to make a new thing you will need a couple of free evenings and some money. By the way, you don’t have to buy fabric, but use old clothes. Denim items that you no longer wear are especially suitable for this role. The only disadvantage of this option is that you will have to tinker with joining the fabric into a single fabric. But the result will be worth the effort. So shake up your wardrobe, use your imagination and feel free to create new frameless furniture.