How to Crochet a Bean Bag Chair Cover
Crocheting a bean bag chair cover is a fun and easy project that you can do anytime. It's a great way to try new patterns and techniques and get proficient at them without worrying about gauge. Crocheting a bean bag chair cover is also a great way to use up scraps of yarn left over from other projects.
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Things You'll Need
- 7-8 skeins of yarn.
- Crochet hook
- Tapestry needle
- Styrofoam peanuts or foam pieces for filling
Instructions
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Begin to crochet sections of your beanbag chair. You can do this "crazy quilt" style, by making various sizes of squares and circles that you can then attach together, or by just using one crochet stitch and crocheting in rows. Either way, You will want to end up with five panels that measure 6 inches across and 12 inches down, and two circles that measure 12 inches in diameter.
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Lay out your five crocheted panels and attach them all together using a simple slip stitch or using your tapestry needle.
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Attach one of your 12 inch circles to the top of the project also with a slip stitch or a simple stitch with the tapestry needle. Run your fingers and your palm around the inside of the bean bag cover to check for any holes larger than the size of what you are using for filling, and patch these up with some extra yarn.
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Now it's time to fill your bean bag. Once the bean bag chair is as full as you can get it without the pieces falling out, attach the other 12 inch circle, leaving a small 4 inch section open. This will enable you to stuff in more foam pieces or Styrofoam peanuts. Stuff the chair as much as you'd like. Some people like their bean bag chair softer, some like them stiffer. Then sew up the hole.
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Check the outside of the beanbag chair again for holes and sew up any you might find.
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Tips & Warnings
These instructions will make a crocheted bean bag chair cover that is about 16 inches tall and wide.
Use a crochet pattern whose stitches are tight and close together.
While the idea of a granny square crochet bean bag would probably be stunning, all your filling would come out of the holes unless you lined it.
Suggested stitches are the vertical rib or basketweave patterns, the straight box stitch, or even just a simple single crochet.
Make sure that all of your seams are tight and that there are no holes in your patterns. You don't want to end up losing peices of the filling all the time.
