Materials

These are the materials I used....they were all things I had on hand. Look around your home for things you can recycle!


(Batting or stuffing, scissors, tracing paper, ruler, fabric, thread/embroidery floss, color inspiration, chair. Not pictured: an embroidery hoop)

Recycling ideas for materials:

• When you open a new bottle of vitamins, they usually have cotton stuffing in the top...this can be used to stuff mini-pillows to substitute for the batting in the chair seat here.

• Have an item of clothing made of nice fabric that you don't wear anymore? After washing it, you can cut the flat pieces of material out of the item and "upcycle" this fabric.
  

• Look for color inspiration in all places....in this case, I loved the colors on this chocolate wrapper!

Next: Creating the paper pattern for the chair seat.