How Do You Make Seat Cushions For Ladder-Back Chairs?
The kitchen and dining room are the heart and social center of the house, but they are also the hardest to redecorate. Before buying new furniture, consider making new seat pads instead. It’s easy and inexpensive to make cushions for ladder-back chairs. Step 1 Measure your chair seat front to back and side to side. Take the side measurement twice, once where the seat meets the back and again at the front edge; many ladder-back seats are wider at the front. Add 2 inches to all of the measurements. Step 2 Trace your measurements, with the extra 2 inches allotted, on the plain muslin. Cut out the shape. This is your pattern. Step 3 Fold your material in half with the printed side in. Use the muslin to cut out as many pairs of fabric as you have chairs. Step 4 Cut the thin grosgrain ribbon into 12-inch lengths, four for each chair. Step 5 Fold a ribbon in half and slip it between two pieces of cut fabric at a corner. The folded part of the ribbon should be diagonal to the corner of the fab
