Chair-pear with your own hands: a master class


This is a soft and comfortable chair that takes shapethe body of anyone who sits in it, and which, moreover, can easily be moved around the apartment - it's quite easy. Something in the pear-chair (bin bag, bag chair, it is called in different ways) is from the style of the sixties - the convenience and uniqueness of the form that fits into any interior, probably.


You can sew a pear chair yourself - most importantly, in addition to fabric and pattern, stock up foam plastic: it will become the filler of our chair.


You will need:



  • Fabric for two cases: internal (which will be filled with polystyrene granules and will not be removed) and external, which can be removed, changed to a different color cover, washed in a typewriter, if the seat suddenly becomes contaminated, and so on.

  • For an inner case choose a fabric verydense, so it can not exactly break, and, preferably, a little slippery, so that the upper cover is easier to remove from it. The length should be about 4.7 m (with a width of about 120 cm, if you want the chair wider, but lower (about 150 cm width), take 3.3 m);

  • The outer case is made of such a fabric and the color that you like best. This is the "face" of the chair, it will look like this; Choose the fabric that best fits your interior.




  • Three zippers: one 1 m long for the outer cover, and one 40 cm long for the inner case.

  • Granules of foam plastic. You can crush polystyrene on pellets from ordinary tiles, you can buy already in granules; they will require a lot, about 400 grams (approximately 2 m in volume). In some cases, it is advised for the filler to use peanut nuts in the shell - but it is rather wasteful (you can still eat the nuts) and, in general, it is much less convenient (they pick up moisture, crack by weight, if this chair for a dacha can become a bait for rodents).

  • Pattern and everything for sewing.

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    There are different types of patterns, and covers canbe sewed differently, but usually consist either of three parts - the round bottom, the main part (the side and before) and the top, in the form of a drop, or from the five - round bottom and four "wedges" in the form of petals, which are sewn to base, gathering in a kind of "bud".



    As a rule, both cases are sewn according to the samepattern, they do not need special distinctions: an outer cover exists rather in order to be able to easily wash the thing or change its coloring; in fact, for a functional component, it is not needed.


    Cut out the fabric on the chosen pattern and sew it,Do not forget to sew a zipper in both cases: remember that the inner cover will not be visible; but in the external it must be sewn on the side that will not be noticeable: the armchair usually stands on its "external" lightning, it is from below. In the inner case, sew it is closer to the base, to the outside - in the middle of the "rear" part, on which the chair lies.


    Then fill the bag with granules. They quite strongly stick to the hands and objects because of static electricity. Part of this can be avoided by falling asleep not directly, but through something, for example, a paper twisted by a tube or a cardboard tube. Try not to spill a lot of polystyrene - it is difficult to remove it even with a vacuum cleaner for the same reasons with static electricity.


    The granules will strongly crumble under the weight of those seated. Sit a little on the armchair, and then pour more into the space. Of course, the armchair should not be packed to capacity, such "pears" are always a little pinched; but, as a rule, this happens naturally. In the future, it may also be necessary to fill the foam, but it is very easy to do this - simply unzip the inner bag.


    Chair-pear with your own hands: a master class


    Author: Masha Larina

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