All that's left now is for Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, with President Obama's guiding hand nearby, willing to throw a few bones to some stubborn members before closing the deal on the nation's first universal health care bill.
If the staples have ripped the fabric, preventing it from lying out evenly, add an extra inch around the entire pattern. For the average dining room chair (16â³ x 18â³), you can get two seats out of Â¾ of a yard, of 54â wide fabric.
There was no way I was going to spend $40 a yard. I spent less than that for this entire project! To figure out how much fabric you need to recover dining chairs, measure all three sides of the seat (length, width & depth) and add three times the depth to the length and the width.