Do-It-Yourself Decorating
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| Red Rocking Chair |
How about a red upholstery fabric with gold-flowered diagonals for this rocker? The pattern seemed to strike a chord with the other chair, interestingly enough. The job of recovering it, however, proved a lot harder! First, we laid the back and seat pieces down on the new fabric. We traced around them, adding two inches for the padding thickness and a half-inch seam allowance, and cut out two of each piece.
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| Seat Detail |
Sewing the covers together was not easy, since we had to put tucks in around the corners where the padding was curved. After stuffing the pillows into the slipcovers (very awkward!), I carefully slipstitched the openings shut. It surprised me by turning out beautifully, and I like how the gold flowers bring out the wood color again!
3 comments:
Very pretty fabric. That does look like a hard job, is that vinyl or upholstery fabric?
It's upholstry fabric--vinyl would have been next to impossible!
Totally impressive how you got it to fit so well. I like the fabric.
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