I have been loving my new menswear slipcovers in the front room, but I felt like something was missing. I think it was because all my prints were small or solid. Then I remembered the second set of slipcovers I had made for my chairs years ago made of black and cream toile. I pulled them out to see if they’d work with everything else I had going on.

I thought they worked pretty well, so I am going to give my white set a break for a little while.

I had topstitched brown pom pom balls along the bottom edge.

I think the large print is what I needed for a little “wow” factor…or at least it’s fun to look at something different for a bit.

Here’s the whole room put together  (I missed the overflowing shoe basket in the corner…that has baseball gloves, bats, and back packs piled up on it)

I even threw on the steel blue/cream houndstooth too…just to see. Any opinions? Solid, pieced, or houndstooth?

This client had this old dated chair…and she bought some great ticking stripe to slipcover it in. We ordered some new wood legs for it as well, that will be coming this week. So we left the chair without a skirt so the legs will show. We chose to do a skirt on the ottoman and save some money (that way she only needed to order 4 legs instead of 8).

Chair before…great shape, but diamond blue fabric.

After…Darling gray/black ticking stripe.

Chair…I ended it with piping to show off the legs once they come.

I had to get a shot of the turquoise armoire….turquoise is on of my colors as well as green.

Another after.

My client posted about her new slipcover on her blog. Her blog is called House to Home. She’s got some other great stuff on there!

-Side Note- I am heading out of town tomorrow to enjoy the 80 degree weather in Vegas with the kids for spring break! Can’t wait to lounge poolside with my book…in my dreams right?

Linking up to the following…

Todays creative blog and the DIY showoff…link below.

So today has been a lazy day…cleaned out my closet, made cookies, debated about buying a leather sectional (talked myself out of it)….we need to put a new roof on the cabin as soon as the snow melts, so I figured I’d better save my money.

I’ve also debated about going running in the snow, I almost talked myself into it…but here I am on the computer still in my pajamas at 5:30pm and I’ve been looking around in blog land at different sewing blogs. I just came across this amazing fabric….it is layers of ruffles already sewn for you!!!! Here is the link of where you can buy it ruffled fabric. It’s about $15-$18/yd. It’s sewn on knit backing

Just imagine…pillows, bedskirt, shower curtain, a skirt/ dress for me, etc. and how fast would it be!!! The ruffles are already done for you! They have 2″ ruffles down to mini ruffles that look like 3/4″.