Chair Cushions -- out with the old, in with the new!

My fabric for my chair cushions finally arrived in the mail yesterday! 

So I spent today making new cushions for my chairs.

2 summers ago I bought these ugly chair cushions from Walmart on clearance as a temporary fix until I had more time to make new ones.  

blah...they are so boring! :)

Well, it has been almost a year and a half since those cushions were purchased, so I took the opportunity of 'pillows' to finally check a project off my list!

I spent the first two weeks of February spending endless hours on the computer browsing fabric websites searching for the perfect fabric.  It was such a hard decision as there were many I liked.  I finally went with the Pezzy Print by American Jane for Moda. Of course, it was green! :) and had a little pizazz to it!

The shape of the old cushion worked well in the chair so I removed all the stuffing and saved it to restuff in to the new cushions. I used the old fabric to make a pattern for the new fabric. This all went fairly quickly until I got to the part where I decided to make fabric covered buttons to hand-sew on to the cushions.   The sewing on is what took the longest! But now the buttons are on and I love the new cushions! 

They spice up the kitchen table!

Alison Horn
Kodiak, AK