- 1). Carefully rip out the seams on each pillow, leaving one end-seam intact on two of the pillows. Remove the stuffing from inside the pillows and set aside for later.
- 2). Use the two pillow shells with one seam still intact to build the base for your chair. With right sides together, sew the ends of the pillow shells together but do not sew the sides. You should now have an inside-out fabric square.
- 3). Pin one of the fabric pillow shell sides to the fabric square. Keeping the square inside out, place the shell fabric upside-down at one corner of the square. Holding the edges together, pin right sides together on three sides and sew. Remove pins. Take a second shell side and sew it to the one you just attached at the center seam, attaching it to the sides of the fabric square. Cut to size and sew the final seam to finish the top. Repeat on the underside of the fabric square, but leave the final seam open. You now have a fabric cube.
- 4). Measure all sides of the fabric cube. Adding 1 inch to every measurement, cut out six pieces of fabric for your outer layer; one piece for each side and one large piece each for the top and bottom. It is very important to add this inch because of seam allowances.
- 5). Put all of the pillow stuffing inside the fabric cube. If there is not enough stuffing to fill the cube, use polyester filling to supplement it. Once the cube has reached the desired firmness, hand-stitch the final seam closed.
- 6). With right sides together, sew the outer fabric into a cube as before, sewing the zipper into the final corner seam. Use a 1/2 inch seam.
- 7). Pin and sew one of the large squares to the fabric square. Slightly unzip the zipper, then pin and sew the bottom. Remove pins, unzip the zipper, and turn right side out.
- 8). Stuff the filled cube inside the empty, outer cube and zip.
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