Sewing up Spring

We have been looking for 2 chairs for the Library for about a year now. Not to big, not to little, floral but not delicate and most of all.. not so expensive that we were going to eat beans and weenies for a month to afford them. Well it seems that those two chairs were not to be found. Wrong color, size and most of all price!.. dang! who pays $2000+ for a chair!! Not me that is for sure. Even if I could afford it there is no way I could feel good about spending that sort of money to sit on. So we have lived chairless for a year+.

Last weeek we decided to take a look at a local furniture haunt that tends to have some good deals but rarely two of anything. We lucked out on this day with a truck load of chairs that were just the right size (yeh!).. but wrong color (oh so wrong) but the right price (yeh!)... so in a fit of desperation I harkened back to my days as a single sewing mother and decided I would slipcover them.

Now I used to do this for a living, I know what sort of craziness I was talking about and yet in a fit of total frustration at not having chairs in the library I set forth on this plan and bought two perfect sized chairs, one plaid, one polka-dot and both in very odd colors. To his credit Les was totally cool with the plan. He is a man of great faith.

7 yards of fabric later I was ready to go and started in on the project. Starting here...

and ending here


Working for about an hour a day since my schedule is quite tight these days I have all of one chair done and about 80% of the other. I am happy with the way the slipcovers came out. I threw in a few dressmaker details like the pleated skirt and this laced up back with inverted plaid pleat.


It's been well worth it but I totally remember why I use to charge $250 a piece + fabric for this sort of job!