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Movement I |
City Night |
Blueprint for Bliss |
Patchwork West |
Laughing Man |
assorted |
I also have a collection of original clipart online.
Soft Snowflakes
Adapted from Woman's Day magazine.
You Need:
White chenille stems,
small pearl beads (13 for each snowflake),
low-temp glue gun and glue sticks, scissors.
To Make:
I hung these alternately with icicles along my window valance last Christmas and they looked quite nice (I certainly had plenty of complements on them!)
Toybox
One man's garbage is another's treasure.
I reinvented what used to serve as the lost and found box at work by upholstering it
to serve as a child's toybox. After stripping down the orignial form and separating the box
from the base, I covered the inside of the box first. Next I sewed the outside cover
together and attached it inside-out at the top of the box then folded it around to the
underside. I covered and reattached the base, then finally added extra padding on the corners
and a rope handle.
Child's Chair
This project was made completely of recycled materials.
I found this chair next to a dumpster with its seat
broken in two. After stripping out the leftover debris from the seat, I cut a new one
from some scrap plywood. Next I added the upholstery (part of an old pillowcase) on the
seat back. Some foam leftover from computer packaging added padding to the seat. More of
the pillowcase fabric was attached to the seat which was finally nailed in place. Voila!
Adult Chair
I claimed this chair from my Dad several moves ago, but wanted to re-upholster it
for Alice's room (as a comfy reading chair)
When I found some heavy maroon-coloured cotton fabric (almost a denim) at a thrift store for $7
I decided to have at it.
What I had noticed falling out of the underside of the chair turned out to be straw "chaffe"
from the stuffing (you can see some in the before picture).
What this meant was that I did cut a couple of corners (fewer than I normally
would on a project this size!). I took off the back of the chair after a removing a few staples
from the base fabric to find the nuts, and then removed the buttons from the back (after photographing
how the staples held the buttons in place!). Unfortunately I chose to cover the back using a single
piece of fabric rather than three pieces sewn to accomodate the curvature, so the finished product
has a few wrinkles.
I knew wanted to leave a small amount of the original fabric around the base to hold the sides
of the stuffing in, so I ended up cutting off most of the seat fabric. I then replaced the
rotted burlap which was between the springs and the straw with a fabric of unknown content,
but with considerable strength and give -- close to the same effect of the burlap.
From there, covering the seat was pretty easy and I used the same fabric on the underside (after
reattaching the back) to finish the chair.
Now if only I'd had the foresight to realize that one should NEVER put solid colours in childrens' rooms....
