Q&A for How to Make a Bean Bag Chair

It is extremely difficult to prevent beans from falling out when attempting to sew a bean bag shut. Better-quality fabrics like canvas or vinyl are relatively stiff, and the beans would spill out while you are trying to sew it shut. In addition, if the outer layer becomes damaged (such as by seam separation), the inner bag stops everything falling out and making a mess.

Yes, you totally could. As long as the blanket provides enough material, then it will work well.

Everyone has their own preferences on the firmness of their beanbag. Make sure you have quite a quantity of pellets. Continue to fill it up until it's comfortable for you.

It depends on the size of your beanbag chair. 3 or 4 bags should be enough for an average-size chair.

You have a couple of options depending on what you're trying to achieve. You can use whole stuffed animals inside a bean bag cover as a comfortable way to store them, but this will feel more chunky than a traditional pellet-filled bean bag. If you open them up to use their fiberfill stuffing, you would essentially create a large, pillow filling rather than a moldable bean bag, as fiberfill behaves very differently from styrofoam pellets.

You can find bulk 5-yard zippers on Amazon. If that is too short or too long, look in craft stores.

Many things can go wrong to cause the pieces to not line up right. Maybe the fabric has some stretch to it, or maybe something moved while you were measuring or cutting. But no matter why the pieces came out wrong, it's easy to fix! You can sew on more fabric until the rectangle is long enough to go all the way around the circle.