Updated chair cushions and ruffle

Isn't this chair pretty?  I especially love the pretty cushions and pink ruffle!

The chair didn't always look so cute.  A good friend asked for a little help with the rocker she had in her daughters' bedroom.  Her daughters are now two and four years old.  She has been rocking both of them in that rocker at night since her oldest was newborn.  She told me instead of buying a new chair when she found out she was pregnant with her oldest, she opted to use the rocker her husband had in college.  He had no clue about the history of the chair.  Prior to its first makeover, it looked like this:

My friend's mother-in-law sewed cushion covers and a ruffle to match their first nursery.  The ruffle was attached to the chair with velcro.   I don't have a picture of the chair with the yellow cover but this is the removable ruffle:

My friend asked if I could make her new cushions with pretty fabric.  She had no interest in keeping the original cushions so we met at the craft store to buy foam and pick out fabric to start from scratch.  Instead of taking the chair to my home for the project, I used the yellow covers as guidelines for the new cushions and covers.  I didn't have the dimensions of the chair and it had been months since I'd seen it in person.  I was nervous about using only the previous covers as guides.  I hoped for the best when I brought the new cushions to my friend's home and was super excited when they fit the chair perfectly. 

I did not make the ruffle removable like in the previous makeover.  I tacked the ruffle directly to the chair. 

The ties matched the ruffle and added just enough pink to the top of the chair.

The cushion covers close with velcro in the back so they can easily be removed and washed.

My friend's daughter loved her new chair!

I'm pretty sure her mommy was happy with the outcome too!

 

Chair Redo Part 2

Remember this chair? Well I have a total of 4 chairs which means 3 more redo's to try. Here is part 2. This time I started by spray painting the whole chair white satin. I wanted something totally different than the first redo. Next I recovered the cushion in a yellow chevron pattern. I love the yellow and white together.
The next part was a little tricky. I have made pillow covers before but not for a long time. I figured it would take me maybe an hour at the most. I was wrong.

Here is my inspiration for the pillow.
I wanted a ruffled pillow with the chevron back. Then I thought it would be fun to add flowers along the top of the pillow. And finally I wanted to add ribbon ties on the side that will attach the pillow to the chair.

Here are my hang ups. I didn't cut the pillow cover correctly. It was too big for my pillow. But the white was too small, hence the yellow. I found a tutorial on the flowers but they aren't exactly what I wanted. Other than that I think the idea is really cute. I will probably redo the pillow cover (maybe) but I looks really cute in my living room for now.

Chair Redo-Wowzer Wednesday

This week I decided to take some initiative and change the things around my house that I hate! I have had these chairs since I got married, the first piece of furniture we bought as a new married couple. A table and chairs from Walmart (broke students). We have kept the set for years passing it around our house. Using it as a computer desk, a kitchen table, a patio table, and now my sewing table. It is old, ugly, and not very sturdy but it's all I've got so I need to make the best of it.

I decided to start with the chairs. Here is the before:

Grungy, stained, plain.

I started with a cushion recover. I found this swirl orange fabric on sale at Joann's and fell in love with the orange. My original plan was the recover the cushion and then maybe spray paint the chair. However, I couldn't decide on a color to spray paint so I went with something totally different. Mod podge. My best crafting friend. I cut some 1 inch strips of scrapbook paper that went with the cushion fabric. Then I mod podged the paper to the back of the rungs on the chair. I love how it turned out. Exactly what I wanted fun and funky. And now I have a theme for the rest of the room. Tune in to see the other makeover adjustments.



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