Embroidered Chair Cover

[CraftNClutter]

I just taught myself to embroider (thank you Sublime Stitching), so I went on a kick of embroidering everyone's birthday gifts.

My mom works in the office of a dirty trucking company. She always complains of how gross her chair is. So I decided to make her a chair cover. She was on vacation at the time so I couldn't get any details out of her. All I knew was she had an office chair. Luckily we have 2 different kinds of office chairs in our basement, so I could make sure the covers fit both.

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I just cut out old sheets and hoped that all the pieces would work. Surprisingly I did a pretty good job. A minor mistake in stitching 2 layers for the butt cushion and then sewing on the sides. I should have just pinned everything and sewed once (but I like to think of it as a border).

Here's a close up of the embroidery. Same thing on both the seat and on the back of the back rest cover.

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[naftey]

ah! thats so awesome! A great way to spruce up office chairs which are pretty much guaranteed to be boring!

[muffinpod]

darling pattern you chose.

sublime stitching rocks my socks. i love love love the little kit thing i bought.

[KerriedAway]

How thoughtful and it turned out quite nice.  Now, im curious about embroidering. I dont have much sewing skills and im wondering how easy is it to learn from Sublime Stitching?  It seems to get good reviews and i see it mentioned all over

Thanks

[corduroy cat]

SS has the greatest kits, etc. and VERY EASY. I don't sew or knit or anything and mine always turn out great (as has everyone else's I've seen posted here)!

[biondetta]

That's a great idea! The boy's office chair is getting a bit worn out. I'm going to have to borrow your idea, and since he owns his own business, I can embroider his company name onto it! Yay! Thanks for sharing!

As for Sublime Stitching, I love it and highly recommend it. Great patterns and easy instructions.

[nikki9door]

i LOVE the embroidery its so cute....i wish i could do that...maybe ill give it a try sumday

[bamabee]

What a thoughtful thing to do.  Warm fuzzy.