Artist Naomi Kobrin shows how to make a fringed upholstered toilet seat for a decorating surprise that'll catch your guests off guard (figure A).
Materials:
1/2 yard of fabric
White glue
2" to 3" paintbrush for spreading glue
Hot-glue gun
Polyester batting for padding seat
Fringe
Scissors
Screwdriver
- Unscrew the toilet-seat lid from the seat.
- Both the top and the bottom of the lid will be covered with fabric. Place the lid on the fabric, and trace around it twice, adding about a 1" seam allowance to each fabric template. Cut out the fabric pieces.
- Polyester batting will form the padding for the seat. Put the lid on a piece of polyester batting, trace directly around it, and cut it out.
- Turn the toilet-seat lid upside down, and squirt white glue on the underside of the lid. Spread the glue evenly with a brush.
- Place one piece of fabric face down, and center the glue-covered seat bottom on it. Turn the seat over, and smooth the fabric in place. Fold the hem over the edge of the lid; hold in place with hot glue.
- To glue down the batting, squirt glue on top of the toilet-seat lid, spread evenly with the brush, and hold the batting in place.
- Center the top piece of fabric face up on the batting-covered seat. Fold the hem to the inside, and hot-glue in place at four points to establish the placement of the fabric. Hot-glue the entire hem inward.
- Finish the seat by hot-gluing an edging of fringe all around it.
- Reattach the finished lid to the toilet seat by screwing it back in place.
RESOURCES :
Naomi Kobrin, mural artist
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