Crochet Dining Seat Covers
This post comes to you from beautiful Jersey, where I'm visiting my parents at the moment. My chair and I are actually on different continents right now, but I finished making this cover and took the photos before I left on my travels…
You may remember that the only way I was able to fix my badly-ripped office chair seat was with ugly frankenstitches:
I fixed the rip, but it's certainly not pretty…
I decided to crochet a quick seat cover to hide the unsightliness. I picked a stitch pattern from a Japanese stitch pattern book and looked through my stash for some suitable yarn. I decided on Loops & Threads Impeccable – it feels hard and tough compared with the soft acrylics I usually use, so I'm hoping that means it'll be hard-wearing too. I picked black to match the chair, with a dark red accent to match my fireplace, and started crocheting…
This stitch pattern was really fun to crochet!
(These really aren't my colours, but working from stash means making compromises, and at least it matches the chair. Anyway, I won't really see the finished cover much as I'll be sitting on it almost all the time, so it doesn't matter too much what it looks like – I just don't want to see the ugly 'scar' from the giant rip any more!)
My one skein of black Impeccable just covered the seat top, with no yardage left over to crochet the side edges to keep it in place. I thought I'd use up some dark grey Impeccable for those, but at the first fitting I realised that wasn't going to work:
Yuck!
So I sacrificed some of my precious Vanna's Choice so I could redo the sides in black, and I ended up with this:
Much better!
A few details:
A custom-curved side at the front helps the top piece fit over the curved front of the cushion and stay in place.
I crocheted extra tabs at the back to tuck into the very tight space between the back and seat cushions (left: untucked tab; right: wedged into place). The tabs hold it all very firmly in place without visible ties.
And the end result is a nicely fitted cover:
It fits like a glove!
This was a satisfyingly fast project to complete, and it's really nice to be able to use my crochet powers for good (I mean, to solve a problem by making something I actually need). The finished seat cover is a big improvement over the frankenstitches, and now I'm saved from buying an expensive new chair – mission accomplished! 🙂
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