Sooo....I got this chair...

So...I got this chair....My Honey decided...while sitting in his Uncle's garage...that this chair "looked" like me...and he brought it home....it was his Uncle's Mother's chair and at one time, I bet it was really beautiful...

As it was...it was dirty and covered in a velvet damask that had a bunch of guys sitting on it divining the next motor they would rebuild or outbuilding they would design....

   

This is the color it used to be...

About 4 months ago, I was surfing the net and came across a tutorial on how  much fabric a painter's drop cloth would net you..for very little money....and people were recovering furniture and making curtains out of them...WELL! Being the cheap skate that I am...I went and bought one...and it laid on the couch with the rest of the storage items in the living room....for months...I washed it...and then washed it again...and it came out the softest, sturdiest material I have ever had! It was actually pretty too!  Sooo...I got out my staple gun and covered that icky blue chair....BORING.....so I made a feather pillow to go on top of it....still boring...

While at the St. Vinnie's thrift shop, I came across this white canvas shower curtain for a dollar...hmmmm....

I love the cottage, shabby look...and I thought I would make that icky blue chair a slip cover...well, from previous posts, we all know Lisa does not sew well...at all...and the only pair of shears she owns are kitchen shears that are dull...duller than a butter knife...why? because she uses them to cut anything and everything....including picture wire...but they had enough in them to cut a small slit on this canvas...and canvas rips in a straight line!

I made the top cover ...by draping material over the back...snipping a slit...and tearing it....and then pinning it...of course...I had to have piping...so I used cording from Ben Franklin and that painters drop cloth material to cover the cording...

tears to fit...

making piping...

   

I made the skirt first...I laid a piece of material over the seat and tore a square...and then sewed piping to it...for the skirt I measured 10" long of material plus 1 1/2 " hem allowance, 1 1/2 times the length  than the front of the seat, the sides and the back...hemmed it...and folded it over where I wanted pleats and sewed the pleats in(straight line..I can do that much) then sewed it to the square for the top of the seat...WA LA chair skirt...

I have to wash it regularly...Louis seems to have commandeered it as his favorite piece of furniture...I did not iron it for this shot....

The arm holes have piping around them as does the top and bottom of the slip for the back of the chair...I still have to sew buttons or snaps to close it around the sides...right now, straight pins are still holding it closed...but I am thinking it beats the heck outta the blue? and it sure is soft and squishy when yous sit on it...I still want to paint the arms or refinish them...What do you think?

THEN...my wonderous, wonder of a neighbor...came over with this!