Are You Allowed to Say You’re Working on Something…

…when all you have is the fabric?!

We inherited two items of furniture, one from each side of the family–a chair from the Husband’s grandmother and an indoor bench from mine.

Both need recovering.

There is not a chance we can afford to have it done for us, but I kept looking at the cushions and thinking… “I could do that…”

You know, in my spare time.

Here’s the chair, mit fabric.

And here’s the bench–you’ll notice I tried to (mercifully) cover the avocado green tweedy fabric that’s there right now with the new fabric.

Both have piping and both could use a little more stuffing, but I think that’s easy enough. I’m planning to take out the piping and make new with the fabric.   From what I can tell, there’s this way to make piping strips, and then I found this pdf of how to make continuous bias strips. I think I’m in love.

Now if I can just find the time…