My client picked these items up from a yard sale… $30 each for the chairs and $100 for the couch. They had attatched cushions on the back, so I cut those off and covered them separately.  She was able to find the cream jaguard/matelesse fabric at Home Fabrics for $6/yd. It was beautiful to work with.

She used red denim for the couch. We made arm pads for everything to help with the wear. When I make arm pads I put piping in them along the front to make them look like part of the chair.

I thought these were perfect for the holiday season. She was still going to make some throw pillows to pull it all together.

Here is a close up to show the cream fabric. It washed up well.

I saw this dog pillow in one of her other rooms and loved it, so I threw it on the chair. It’s wool hook looped. I thought it went well with all her new slipcovers.

Here’s the ottoman as well. Yard sale finds can be great!

 So I decided to get into the holiday spirit, I decided to make some new pillows for the front room. IT’s all about the pillows…that’s what I always tell my clients, you can completely change your whole look with just the pillows. That’s why I like to keep neutral slipcovers and then when I am itching for a change, I make new pillows.

I found a quilt that my dad gave to me 13 years ago when I got married. It was made by his grandma Hamilton, a pioneer quilt. I thought it worked great with what I was doing, so I draped it over the back of the loveseat.

My little guy really wanted to be in a picture…he even smiled for me.

Close up of great grandma’s quilt. I made the red pillow with 2″ strips of bias (fabric cut on the diagonal) and sewed ten rows across and gathered it as I went. I love ruffling bias, because you don’t need to hem the edges. I decided to sew the ruffles on with tan thread instead of red to make it a little more rustic.

I was kind of feeling the menswear, and I had a small scrap of this brown houndstooth to make a rectangle pillow. I love to mix masculine with a little bit of feminine…something a little unexpected. The white pillow is made out of a white linen napkin that I sewed burlap strapping down the center and then I decided to ruffle some 2″ brown bias down it to tie in the brown and darker colors. I backed it with a bold brown/red stripe, so I can flip it if I choose to mix it up a bit. You can see the back of it a few pics up.

 I always joke that the reason I like ruffles so much is because I have three boys. I can’t put them in ruffles, so I wear ruffles and decorate with ruffles.

Today Cassity over at Remodelaholic featured my front room slipcovers…go check out her blog and all the awesome projects over there.