But in the meantime, I'm playing the waiting game. Its pretty much my only activity that I have been permitted to do. I'm sneaking in doing laundry and light cleaning here and there -but really, I'm not able to do much more than that. But with energy through the roof, I really am in need of keeping my hands and mind away from idle... hence the nursing covers and shopping cart covers from last week.
To quote my mom "good Lord, please let this baby come before she sews something else!" Well, sorry to say, the baby hasn't come yet so I picked two new projects - which didn't take very long, but had FANTABULOUS results. I'm still dancing around the living room in celebration of them.
The first project was to reupholster my kneeling chair. The second was to recover my computer chair (I'll post more on that later this week). I picked the chair up off of freecycle - having wanted one forever, but not willing to spend $70 to buy it. The fabric was pilled (as the girl mentioned in the ad), but all in all the chair was in great shape. She left it on her front porch so I just picked it up while I was in the neighborhood.
So I just unscrewed the four bolts from each the top and bottom, then cut fabric to fit, pulled it tight on the chair and stapled. I like to alternate sides for stapling so that my fabric doesn't get too short in any one direction. I save the corners for the end - creating small tight pleats.
All told the chair was done in under an hour - and for the cost of 1/2 a yard of upholstery fabric ($5). Doesn't it look superb?!?
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