IKEA Nils armchair cover
A quick and easy tutorial on how to sew a custom chair cover for your IKEA Nils chair. Sewing pattern linked below!
A quick and easy tutorial on how to sew a custom chair cover for your IKEA Nils chair. Sewing pattern linked below!
Rebecca
how many yards of fabric did it take per chair? Thank you!!
Jackie
Hey, I’m not familiar with yards but due to Google’s converter, my fabric was 1,6 yards wide and 2,7 yards long. (1,5m x 2,5m)
Teresa
Hi Jackie, thank you for taking the time to share this! I have some old Nils chairs that I’d like to re-cover but I’ve not done this kind of thing before, although I know how to use a sewing machine. Could you give me some idea of the sequence for sewing them together please?
Jackie
I think the sequence doesn’t matter too much, fortunately, it’s a rather beginner-friendly project. Nevertheless, I started with the main seating panel (3) and sewed all neighboring panels to it (2×8,4,1). Then I sewed 5 and 6 together and then those two to the edge of 4. Lastly, I sewed on the two side parts (7) and attached the velcro to all bottom facing flaps. The parts with lines are the ones where the velcro should go on because they are the ones tucked through or wrapped around the chair, but you can take your existing nils armchair cover as a reference. I hope that helped you out a little, happy sewing! 🙂
Teresa
Thank you for taking the time to respond – it’s given me the confidence to have a go!
Richard
Is the seam allowance included in the overall pattern, e.g. 1/2″ was built into PDF pattern, or it needs to be penciled on before sewing?
Jackie
Hey 🙂 No, the seam allowance is not included in the pattern. I assume you refer to the grey parts of the pattern, but those are meant to be the edges where the velcro tape needs to be sewn on. Hope that helps! 🙂
Cindy Stevens
Help – I don’t have a plot printer, so am having difficulty with the dimensions. I don’t have the actual chairs with me as I am making the covers as a gift for my son and his girlfriend as a surprise.
Are you able to provide me with dimensions so that I can create the pattern to scale.
thx
Cindy
Jackie
Hi Cindy, I measured the top of the chair for you, so the width of the top panel is 53cm. You can adjust the other sizes accordingly.
Georgia
Thank you so much!
I was looking for the pattern for Nils dining chair, but I have also this armchair! Nice idea for a little change in our home…