This chair was for my clients nursery. She chose a peach/cream stripe. She wanted to make it a little more modern and interesting, so we ran the stripes across on the skirt and on the front of the arms.

At first we thought we’d do them across on the skirt and on the bands of the cushions, but I thought it would be better to do the front of the arms instead. That way the stripes weren’t broken up going down the front of the chair. I thought it might be too distracting to the eye.

Chair—BEFORE

Chair—AFTER

Close up of the front of the arm.

I also decided to move the pleat from the front corner to the side…

Heber, my awesome husband went and picked up these chairs for me. My client lives up Emmigration Canyon. She threw in an extra chair last minute, which was great because she had a huge roll of heavy weight blue linen to use up.

1st chair— BEFORE, small rounded back chair

2nd chair— BEFORE—Large chunky wingback

3rd chair— BEFORE– her dad’s old pea green scrolled back velvet chair

Chair #2— AFTER— we did a straight skirt with pleats in the corners

Chair #3 AFTER— we did no skirt, and ended with piping to let the legs show.

Chair#1—AFTER–we did a knife pleat skirt to show the legs. I wanted to make each chair skirt differently to add to the eclectic look of the chairs.

Front of arm on chunky wingback.

Chair #1— in the room with upholstered couch and yellow chair.

I did a band along the front edge of this chair to hug the shape.

Love the scroll back on this chair.

Here is a pic of the pillows I demoed…knife edge, mitered, bolster, ruffled, and piping pillow.

I made all the pillows out of oatmeal/cream painters drop cloth and used turquoise piping.

I am selling this collection of 5 pillows for $125 total plus $25 shipping. They will be available to ship on 3/10/12. (I need to make sure I don’t need any more pics for the ebook first)

They all have down inserts. The 3 square pillows are 19″, the bolster is 17″ long, and the ruffled pillow is 15″x24″ with a 1″ ruffle.

Email me if you want them, and I’ll paypal you an invoice! thanks.

First off Kirstin at kojo-designs is hosting a giveaway for my slipcover DVD today. The giveaway ends today….so head on over and comment to enter. I met Kirstin through the “Sew You Think You Can Sew” Contest. Congrats to her… she ended up winning the contest! She has great projects and inspiration on her blog….so check it out!

This chair was muslin covered underneath, and my client wanted to have a new slipcover made for it. She had some beautiful tan/cream velvet that she had me use.

CHAIR- AFTER…..she loves ruffles, but with the velvet it was going to be too thick to gather all the way around. She decided to just gather the corners.

Side of chair

Front of arm

She had me do a pillow too, out of some scraps she had. The stripe was a silk, so I lined those pieces with muslin to give it some more weight and stability. The ruffle is also only gathered on the corners.