Chair Project 2 - Complete!

This last week, and then especially this weekend, I spent finishing my Chair Project.  Namely, re-covering the pink chair (great bones, hideous color) with super-mod fun fabrics.  I spent Wednesday night with an old slipcover making a pattern for my materials.  Then on Saturday, I went to work.  Cutting fabrics, pinning them on, hand basting them with upholstery thread, removing the pieces, sewing them on my machine, pinning them back on to add the next piece, and so on.  It took all day Saturday and all day Sunday, but I love the result.  Please pardon the very grainy pictures - I took them with my phone.

Before:

And now, after:

We've placed one of our brown throw pillows on it and it makes the brown really pop.  It is a slip cover, for both the new cushion (not horsehair stuffed!), and the chair itself.  The cushion is machine washable and zips off at the back, and then the chair itself is dry clean only, but it zips down a back corner and then to give it a really tight effect, the sides tuck under and lace across the bottom, but, it's entirely removable, which is super convenient.

Love. It.

Now, to make an outside dog bed for Z, and then maybe a foray into clothes for R.

Finished!

All four chairs are done! :-) 

I still need to do the arm chair, but that can wait until I recuperate a bit.  In the meantime, I'm hoping all (or at least most) of my plants survive the torrential winds we've had here lately.

Decor

So a few weeks ago, I went fabric shopping with my mom.  I bought four fabrics, two to be used on an arm chair that she gave me that she was no longer using, and two to be used on our dinette chairs.

M & I have two dinette tables - one trestle, in a white/silver laminate with chrome, and one four legged in a yellow laminate with chrome.  We use the trestle one at our house right now - the yellow one is in storage at the condo.  We have four dinette chairs as well.  Three of them are standard chairs with a white and green vinyl covering, not in the best shape, but not too shabby.  One is an awesome arm chair, in red on the back and white/silver on the chair, also in semi-decent condition.  But it would be better if they all matched, and hey, if the seats had a bit more padding.  So there comes the fabrics.  And a little foam. :-)

Here is the before picture of one of the white/green chairs:

And here is how it looks with the new covers:

We love it.  It is a little more blue-green on the seat than it looks here, but the fabric is an awesome pairing with the tables and our living room.

One chair down, two more chair backs completed, three seats and one more chair back to go. Yay!