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January 23, 2008

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Chair Seat Covers, Part 2

This is the second of two posts that I began writing back in May of this year....the first part can be found in my previous blog post: Chair Seat Covers, Part 1. This Part 2 post has more photos and a bit more detail about how the seat covers were assembled.
As part of the original project, our cousin asked for padded covers for her bar stools to match the kitchen chair covers.
Here's a quick look at the finished bar stool cover:

The covers for these chairs were a little more complicated for two reasons: 1) they're padded and 2) to fit around the harp, the extension at the back of the seat needed an opening in the middle.
I began by making a muslin version of the padded seat cover. To make the basic pattern, I taped a piece of Pattern Ease tracing material to the bar stool and traced the shape of the seat with pencil.

The pattern for the seat was used to cut out the foam padding. I used a water soluble pen to mark the cutting line and large scissors to cut the Nu Foam cushion in…

Chair Seat Covers, Part 1

Last December, one of our cousins contacted me and asked if I'd be interested in a sewing project to make covers for her kitchen chairs. She forwarded a couple of sample photos and asked if this was 'my thing', which made me chuckle. :-)
It had been a while since I made the slipcovers for my couch and the opportunity to do some 'real' sewing was irresistible. We worked out the details for the project and agreed she would buy the fabric and drop it off along with one of the chairs in January and pick everything up when the covers were finished.
The original plan was to make 7 kitchen chair seat covers. I prepared a rough estimate of the fabric yardage so she could order enough fabric, plus a little extra.
When she arrived to drop off the fabric and one of the kitchen chairs, there was a bonus bar stool chair and a request to make 3 padded covers to match the kitchen chairs. Fortunately, she had ordered a couple of extra yards of fabric, which proved to be more than…

Antique Singer Sewing Machine - Model No. 15

Above is a photo of an antique Singer sewing machine, a family heirloom. My mother passed it to me; she got it from her father. The original owner was his mother -- my great-grandmother. Until recently, I didn't know too much else about the machine other than my mother and grandmother did actually use it for home sewing and that it would probably still work, if it had a belt. The machine shows a good bit of wear -- a good portion of the gold detail is missing from the front and some of the pieces are a bit rusted. I suspect it may have spent a good deal of time stored in the attic or garage once it was replaced by an electric model. The cabinet is in very good condition.

I received this piece when I moved to my current home in 1998. I always intended to do some research about the machine, find a belt and maybe restore it to working condition, but I've never gotten around to doing all that. I did go through the accessories and mount them in a shadowbox which is displayed in th…

DIY Screen Curtain

Have you seen the ads on TV for a curtain made of screening for your patio and sliding doors? We've had one for our sliding doors ever since Keli was a puppy. We usually set it up on the first warm day of spring and leave it there through the summer into mid-fall. On nice days, both Keli and Penny like to go out onto the deck to sunbathe and watch the squirrels, birds and other passers-by. The curtain allows them to go out and come back in when they get too warm and helps keep out most of the insects and airborne objects.
At the end of last year, our poor screen curtain was showing its age - the weighted strip had fallen off of one panel and both panels had small rips and tears all over.
We've had warm sunny days for the past week and of course, the girls wanted to go in and out - which meant we either had to keep opening and closing the sliding screen door for them or leave it open and deal with the bugs. And there were a few head-bumping incidents when Penny tried to push t…

Insulated Water Bottle Carriers

We've been using filtered tap water and various types of refillable bottles instead of bottled water for a couple of years now. Whenever I'm out on errands, on a long drive in the car or taking the Pesties for a walk, I fill up my bottle and take it with me to sip throughout the day. It's worked well for me, but there are a couple of things that bothered me - first, the condensation from the cold bottles left puddles in the car or wet spots in my bag and second, the water would get too warm to drink if I decided to leave it in the car for any amount of time.
The solution? An insulated bottle carrier. My first thought was to buy something to wrap around my bottle to absorb the condensation and keep my water cold; I wasn't thrilled with the commercially available wraps so decided to make my own.
I remembered seeing Embroidery Library's Insulated Water Bottle Carrier project instructions and used them as a jumping off point. A quick search of Flickr photos led me to …

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