Rugs on chairs with their own hands allow you to createan additional element of comfort, especially if they are combined in color with curtains, kitchen towels or even potholders. Their manufacture does not take much time, you can use both new fabrics and used things. Often, such rugs can be used not only for the home. 
The mat for the chair can be a great gift made with your own hands.
Multifunctional products
For example, a quilted chair rug canused by moms with children or retired not only at home, but also for walking on the street, where it can be put on a bench. It is often used to protect expensive lining on furniture, if a chair is chosen by a pet. To make a rug, you need to make a pattern according to the size of the seat of the chair from the newspaper, on which it is necessary to mark the places of the intended fastenings of the product, so that the rug does not move, but this is not necessary. 
Crochet knitting pattern. The resulting pattern is used to cut two parts of the rug into a chair made of fabric and one piece of sintepon or other filler. Fabric elements of the crochet with seam allowances in the size of 1.5-2 cm, and on the sintepon, on the contrary, it is necessary to remove from each side approximately up to 1 cm, so that it enters the cover. In addition, two strips with a width of at least 7-8 cm and a length of about 0.5 m should be cut from the fabric to perform the strings. The mat is usually collected from the strings, which must be folded in half, stitched along the length and one narrow side, then remove the basting mark, turn the product out, sew the second narrow edge manually and carefully iron it. Next to the inside of the rug, the sintepon is taken, and the ties are folded in half and are labeled to the bottom face so that when the sewing is continued, the middle of the addition falls under the stitch. Then the fabric parts of the rug are folded to the front side of each other, the stitch is laid along the sides so that the product can be unscrewed. After that, the marking is removed (if it was), the quilted mat is turned out, the hole through which it was turned out, is neatly sewn by hand by folding the allowances inwards. This mat is easily washed in a washing machine. Necessary tools and materials:
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Artichoke Pad
Schemes for embroidering covers on a stool and rugsin the technique of "stuffing." No less impressive are the rugs on the chairs made in the artichoke technique. When you make it, you can use small pieces of fabric that are left after sewing other models, as well as old things. The base of the rug is made of a dense tissue such as drape on the basis of a pattern taken from the seat of the chair with the help of a newspaper. Next you need to make "scales" for the future pattern. To do this, cut out the squares of the desired size of the squares (often take 6x6 cm), which must be folded in a special way. The resulting triangles should be fastened with tailor's pins or stripped with a hot iron to keep the shape (depending on the fabric). Then, on the basis of the center, you need to mark out two perpendicular lines and, to the middle of the resulting cross, attach four triangles so that together they form a square to be sewn with a sewing machine. The indentation on the seam in this case should be about 0.7 cm. Over the resulting square, the second row of elements with a total of 8 pieces is stacked. The laying should first be done along perpendicular lines, then add new triangles to the space between the first four. Elements are also pinched, stuck with a machine. In the third row there may already be 12-16 elements, etc. until the whole foundation is filled. On the edge of the base is usually sewn a trim tape to hide the place of attachment of the last row. Tools and materials:
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Spectacular mats of old things
Scheme of a round cape on chairs. A cute mat on a chair with a square seat can turn out if you use trimmings of knitted fabrics and a mesh-base, which you can buy at a construction store. In addition to the fabric and mesh for the rug, you will need a crochet hook and scissors, through which you will need to cut the knitwear into strips of the preferred length. The method of product execution is quite simple. Before work the contour of a grid stick with an adhesive tape that was not disheveled during work. Next, the knitted ribbons are woven into the base with the help of a hook in random order or in the form of a pattern. Ribbons for such a rug should be long enough and wide, so that when sitting on a chair, the base could not be felt. The times when the old woolen things were being disbanded and bandaged, are almost gone. Nevertheless, a used sweater can be approached after dissolving to perform a mat of pompoms on a chair, such a thing will last long enough, it will look funny and create especially pleasant sensations for the body. To produce it you will need:
Before preparing pom-poms, you need to measure the stool andapproximately calculate how much small parts are needed on the rug, how the colors will be arranged, whether the pompoms are of the same size. Next, take two curves (most often made of paper) in the form of circles with holes in the center, superimposed on each other, tightly wrapped in a thread. Threads of threads must be cut through the fold, parted templates, wrapped the center of the pompon with a thread, cut the patterns, removed them and fluffed the pom-pom. After this, the manufactured pompons are collected on a thick strand in the desired order or sewn onto the base (preferably). This mat on the chair will be quite expensive for the price, as any yarn today is not cheap. Therefore, it is worthwhile to consider one more way of performing a three-dimensional rug from tissue pom-poms with a synthetic filler. To perform it, you will need:
From the remnants of the tissue, manycircles. Then a sintepon is laid in the middle of each of them, and the edges are tightened with a strong thread so that the ball turns out. After that, the balls must be sewn together, applying the product periodically to the seat of the chair, or to sew on the base according to a pre-made pattern. Often such interior elements are made of bright, colorful fabrics, which gives them an additional attraction in the eyes of kids. Therefore, such an element can be placed on a highchair. Back to contents</a>
How to decorate the interior in Japan
The above-described methods for making matsare available to almost any housewife, and to implement the products offered below, you will need to have a crochet and know how to read knitting patterns. For example, such a chair rug developed by craftsmen in Japan, for its performance will require thick yarn, a thick hook, at the request of the Sintepon gasket inside and many hours of operation. First, the top of the rug is executed, then the bottom, then both sides are connected by strapping (you can walk the step), filler is inserted, brushes are made and attached. Made of woolen non-slip materials, such a rug is almost always loved by children who do not like to sit on cold surfaces. To fulfill the rugs on the chair, it is more suitable for those needlewomen who own a crochet hook, and not spokes, since this tool allows you to tie complex shapes, including animals, flowers, etc., as well as numerous patterns. Therefore, a rug made from thick yarn can be made in many schemes for napkins with a dense pattern. In some countries, such products are made on the basis of a simple chain of air loops, which is twisted into a spiral and stitched between rows.
