Remember the chair I showed you the last time I was here?
It’s done! Well,
at least for the time being. I really
wanted to get it done, so I took it downstairs to my brother Casey to ask him
to help me- I have no upper body strength having been a button pusher for most
of my life, so I knew I would have trouble with the pulling of the fabric
around to staple it down.
Something I should explain about my brothers and how I
learned to handle them over the years.
Whenever I just asked either one of them to do something for me when they had
time, I found out it would take weeks, months, sometimes years to get
done. One day, I discovered a nifty
little trick – I found that if I asked them to “help” me, it would be done very
quickly. For example, I hate to cook and when my
older brother Kelly was alive, all I had to do was say to him something like, “I
have to go check on my laundry- will you watch this (whatever was in the pan on
the stove) for me?” I could disappear
and come back half an hour later and he would have finished it. It works with everything! I know, it’s sneaky, but I finally starting
getting some things done that wouldn’t have otherwise! LOL
So I knew if I went down to Casey with the chair and
asked his help, it would get done. In
fact, I have to give him credit for most of the project! He got the seat done immediately-
I was very impressed with how he got the flower centered. He also got the piece on the back of the back
done quickly (sorry no photo of that).
However, then it was my turn. I
had to recreate the front piece of the back.
I measured the one I took off very carefully, but of course, I should
have added a lot more to the measurements because it was really tight putting
it on. I had to make a run to Joann’s to
get piping – that stuff sure is expensive!
I should have re-padded it- the padding on both the back and the seat
was made up of layers of some sort of batting-
You can see how flat it is on the sides so it came out
that way. It was so tight, getting it on
was really hard (again, many thanks to Casey!), but as I was running out of
materials, neither one of us wanted to start over. And since it was my first
time with piping, I didn’t do that great of a job on it-
And here is the entire chair-
Oh, geez, really, Lhasa?
Every time?
But we got it done.
I learned a lot about making that boxy shape for the top, which is good
because I know I will want to change it in a year or so. (I found some gorgeous
crinkled purple velvet that would look awesome!) THAT is why I could never get a tattoo – I like
to change stuff around too often. Mix it up, you know? Keep life fresh!
The chair is pretty old - here is the label that was on
it-
You will notice that the address does not have a zip
code, so that means it has be to pre-1963, as the post office started using
them that year. I don’t think the chair
will ever be worth a lot except to me so I think I will refinish it next time. But I did save all of the stuff that was
taken off, just in case.
Okay – off to clean and sew (work on the Fishbowl quilt) and enjoy my small-child-free
weekend! Thanks for stopping by!
No comments:
Post a Comment
Because of the many idiots on the Internet, comments are now moderated. Sorry.