Recovering Chairs

I was lucky and moved in at the beginning of the moving madness in Madison and was able to take full advantage of "Hippie Christmas". One of the things I picked up was a low set rocking chair, the fabric was pretty nasty but it was fairly comfortable and only needed a couple screws to hold a split together. This is where I'm happy I sew :) I bought some nice brocade fabric and ribbon trim to recover it. It took me awhile to get around to it but this week I finally worked on it. After pulling out the old tacks and trim weeks ago I had let it sit waiting for me to finish. I now have the new fabric stapled on and just need to cover the staples with the ribbon. I saved all the original tacks so I'll use those to hold the ribbon in place too. This is a picture of it flipped upside down while I'm stapling the fabric on. I'll post again with a picture of the finished chair.

My other chair recovering project was four dinning room chairs. I some how managed to find for chairs and a table at Goodwill for $25. The table isn't much to speak of but, aside from the fabric, the chairs were in really good shape and are surprisingly comfortable. I bought brocade for these the same time I bought fabric for my rocking chair but actually did these right away. These were a lot easier because all I had to do was unscrew the cushion and staple the fabric around a relatively square seat. It's amazing what the fabric does for my kitchen. Now all I need is something on the walls...