What I’ve been doing: The Chair
Well I’m whupped (as in exhausted, debilitated, ready to drop in my tracks…). It never occured to me that it would take TWO full days to remove the upholstery on a single chair, but that is what it has been….. I managed to skip lunch (Me?!) two days in a row (unheard of!) I was working so hard at stripping this chair:
Over three years ago, I bought fabric to re-upholster the chair. Yep…when Marie and I went to Spring Quilt Market in Portland (Oregon) in 2003, I bought umpteen yards of fabric to cover this and another chair. I planned to do the work that winter. Of course, in January 2004, we realized we needed to move and put the house on the market. You can’t have the unholy mess of a big re-upholstery job in the living room while showing the house, so it got postponed.
We moved July 2004 and spent the next six months or so unpacking and settling in to our new house on the other side of the US (from Washington state in the far northwest to Maine in the far Northeast…note the theme: North! where it’s not hot.) Just as I was about to deal with the chair, Paul had a heart attack and open heart surgery in February 2005. and I was (thankfully temporarily) single parenting while he got well again (he’s fine now!).
(what you are seeing here is the seat, right side and back..the white stuff is cotton batt…different from quilting batts! and the dark is horsehair, the tan is nearly-disintegrated burlap over the springs.
Winter 2005/06 came and went, and here we are. I wanted to paint the living room. Paul said not until you do that chair. Fair enough. So this is what the chair now looks like, and the above are (obviously!) some photos of the getting from the top photo to this one. I’ll keep you posted with progress….
Oh yeah…I’ll also post some quilt related content! On Monday our mini-group, the Frayed Edges met at Kathy’s house, so have a few photos to share…. hopefully tomorrow (if I wake up!)…
July 12th, 2006 at 8:23 pm
Dang, what a job! That chair is complicated. I bet it’ll be pretty when you’re done though.