Oooh, this summer is going so fast. I can’t believe there are only 3 weeks left of our 10 week summer break! I’ve got so many of my stickers left to accomplish I don’t even think we’ll actually finish them all, maybe next year? I’m hoping to sew up a lot of back-to-school project with de-stashing in mind. Lots of dresses with long sleeves, to use up as much stash as possible!
Last month I acquired another large sewing project. Re-upholstering a mid-century modern 3-seater teak couch and chair. Here are the “before” pictures…
My mom and I found them at a garage sale for $60! Both pieces were professionally re-upholstered 5 years ago. It’s in great condition and the shape is amazing, but I am definitely not loving the “forest green” colour. It really clashes with our blue and red living room scheme! So for now it lives in our basement. I’m hopeful I’ll have some time to work on it this fall.
In the meantime I’ve been thinking about fabrics and what type of fabric was best when re-upholstering it. After a ton of research I feel way more comfortable choosing something and even wrote my latest Craftsy blog post about the two things you need to know to choose fabric for slipcovers. Now all I need to do is find the perfect fabric…. all 20(+?) metres… preferably on sale…. argh!
What do you think? Would you ever tackle re-upholstering your furniture? Or have you? (You brave person you!) How did it go?
check out Spruce, They are in Austin TX, not for their fabric, which is fabulous, but for their ideas. They are predominantly a group of women upholsterers there may be one man, and boy do they have a sense of style. There used to be a video of the Sprucettes showing them at work and scrounging about for new pieces to work on. Not sure if the video still exists. Looks like you your work cut out for you. Also messygoat on IG has doe. Some re upholstery work. Good luck
Good to know Ann! Thank you! I will look it up right now 🙂
This furniture is so cool – can’t wait to see what you do with it…hahaha, you are fearless !
I made another one of your lunch bags
https://piecemakerquilts.wordpress.com/2015/08/14/lets-do-lunch/
Your lunch bag is so amazing! I’m sure she will love it 🙂 And thank you! I am not as fearless as it might seem, just pushing through at the moment!