My slipcover is showing

 The next big projects I wanted to tackle with the sewing machine were slip covers for several pieces of furniture, items that were in sore need of updating or repair. I researched how to make them from several YouTube videos (thank God for the internet!) and one in particular recommended using cotton drop clothes for the fabric. These are very durable, large canvases that painters use. When they're washed they get super soft and the best thing of all is that the upholstery 'fabric' ends up being very cheap, just a little over $2.00 a yard! I just buy the 9' x 12' size right off of Amazon and they show up in no time.

The first thing I tackled was the kitchen bar stool. It had a 'pleather' seat and it had gotten severely worn with age. I chose not to do piping on it, but I did close up the back with several ties. It's much better than the make-shift piece of fabric I had on it previously.

The next project was the 'Martha Washington' chair in the living room, the one from Ethan Allen. It had a red slipcover that was perfectly fine, but I was in the mood to lighten up the color scheme in that room (the eventual project is to lighten the wall color in there, I'm hoping to get to this in the coming Winter).

This week I finished a slipcover for the long window seat cushion in the bay window. This was very challenging. It was the first time I had really undertaken piping, and there was a LOT of it. The piping here went all the way around the top and bottom edges. There are some very minor boo-boos here and there, but overall it came out pretty nice. I'm proud of the effort.