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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Pillows, Pillows, Pillows

I am really getting the hang of this. I made 4 new ones today, check them out!
They're so much fun to make, but I think I will need something more challenging soon. Easier than the wingback chair though /: that's for sure.



Monday, August 26, 2013

Cushion covers


I bought some cheap fabric from Walmart thinking that I was going to try to use my sewing machine, but assumed the idea would jut fail like the many other ones I tried to use it. I measured a couch cushion and just started to cut and see fabric together. Without any template or direction at all, the first one I made didn't turn out too shabby. So then I was googling a fabric store that didn't have too expensive of fabric. I found a store called Home Fabrics in San Diego. They have tons of great patterns and quality fabric and they are fairly reasonably priced. I got a couple yards of two fabrics that weren't too girly (for the hubby) and a zipper and went home and measured, cut and sewed that new fabric. The zipper ended up being the most difficult part. I think I did each zipper a different way. But this is what it turned out to be, and in my opinion it looks darn good!



Please don't mind the can of beer (oopsies /:)

And those pillows I made in the middle of finishing the covers. I'd get bored of working with the same fabric for hours so I got some fun pattern and made pillow covers as well. The piping for those was really not how I pictured the process to be like, it was a definite challenge until I got the hang of it.


The above pictures are a couple of pillow covers I made. Super fun and cute! (Too girly for my husbands liking, though)


I just took some better pictures of the couch cushion covers, take a look



The others were taken at night, these new ones have more natural light which makes them look tons better.



The $5 Dresser

...into something I wasn't supposed to keep. Oh, but I am.



Sunday, August 25, 2013

Wing-backed Chair

This has been a pain to take apart. I'm learning as I go. There's been tons of Google-ing and YouTube-ing to figure out just how to strip this disaster. I will try to take a picture tomorrow of the progress, but for now this is all you get. Chair $9 from Consignment Classics in Point Loma When this project is done I;m not sure any amount of money will cover what I feel it's worth.

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