{"id":7628,"date":"2012-07-18T15:45:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T19:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=7628"},"modified":"2013-09-04T09:07:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T13:07:00","slug":"crochet-seat-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/crochet-seat-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"crochet seat cover"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post comes to you from beautiful Jersey<\/a>, 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…<\/em><\/p>\n

You may remember that the only way I was able to fix my badly-ripped office chair seat<\/a> was with ugly frankenstitches:<\/p>\n

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\nI fixed the rip, but it’s certainly not pretty…<\/em><\/p>\n

I decided to crochet a quick seat cover to hide the unsightliness. I picked a stitch pattern from a Japanese stitch pattern book<\/a> 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…<\/p>\n

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\nThis stitch pattern was really fun to crochet!<\/em><\/p>\n

(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!)<\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n

\"crocheted
\nYuck!<\/em><\/p>\n

So I sacrificed some of my precious Vanna’s Choice so I could redo the sides in black, and I ended up with this:<\/p>\n

\"crocheted
\nMuch better!<\/em><\/p>\n

A few details:<\/p>\n

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\nA custom-curved side at the front helps the top piece fit over the curved front of the cushion and stay in place.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"crocheted
\nI 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.<\/p>\n

And the end result is a nicely fitted cover:<\/p>\n

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\nIt fits like a glove!<\/em><\/p>\n

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<\/strong>). The finished seat cover is a big improvement over the frankenstitches, and now I’m saved from buying an expensive new chair – mission accomplished! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}