| Outdoor Canvas Chair |
From "DIY Crafts"
episode DIC-144 |
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DIY Crafts host Vicki Payne shows how easy it is to replace canvas chair backs and seats. Materials:
Replacement-canvas chair kit (check your chair's dowels to see whether they're round or flat, and purchase the appropriate kit)
Red fabric paint
Foam brush
Paper plate
Dragonfly rubber stamp from Hot Potatoes®
Blue pigment stamping pad
Black pigment pad
Bee foam-rubber stamp from Rubber Stampede®
Iron
- Fold the canvas fabric used for the chair back in half to find the center. Using fabric paint and a 1-1/2"-wide foam brush, paint a stripe the width of the foam brush in the center of the chair-back canvas.
- Measure over the width of the foam brush from the edge of the first stripe, and paint another. Continue adding stripes across the chair back. The beauty of this method is that the stripes will have a hand-painted, freeform look (figure A).
- Paint stripes on the canvas chair seat in the same way. Let the paint dry completely (figure B).
- Ink the dragonfly rubber stamp with blue stamping pigment. Stamp the image onto the chair seat, using firm pressure and a slight rocking motion. Continue stamping images over the entire seat and chair back in a random design (figure C).
- Stamp a large bee image with black pigment on the back of the canvas-chair back, in the center (figure D).
- Heat-set the fabric paint and rubber-stamped images with an iron.
- Install the chair back and chair seat panels to the wood chair frame.
Tips: - Keep baby wipes handy to clean pigment from your fingers and around the image of the rubber stamp.
- This is an easy project for kids.
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