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.
Find the area in square yards of a rectangle room that measure 16 feet by 22 feet?   1 sq yd is equal to 9 sq ft, so a room that is 16 ft x 22 ft is 352 sq ft, or divided by 9 is equal to 39.11 sq yds.