Comments on: before and after: slipcovered chair

By: Courtney Baker

Courtney Baker — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:06:45 +0000

Thanks Stephanie! I have two matching chairs just like yours that are vinyl as well… they are the same size but one is green and one is orange. I have yet to use interfacing, but I think that would do the trick! Thanks for inspiring me to move forward with covering mine :)

By: Denise Smith

Denise Smith — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:37:25 +0000

Personally, I prefer the Before. I have whole rooms conjured up…A tiki bedroom…in a foyer with equally loud wallpaper…

By: lealou

lealou — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:33:35 +0000

Hi Courtney! I took the flowery print off the chair — it was pretty tattered from my cat. Underneath was sparkly green vinyl — also lovely… ;) and the fabric I used is actually thick enough that you can’t see the green through it. Perhaps a light interfacing fabric might prevent the original fabric from showing through…

Steph

By: Courtney Baker

Courtney Baker — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:20:41 +0000

I’m wondering how Stephanie made the slipcover thick enough to not show the green print. I’ve had trouble with this! I’m still a fairly novice sewer, but I have slipcovered one chair fairly successfully except that you can see the chair’s original color through the duck cloth.

By: lealou

lealou — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:21:53 +0000

Thanks Grace!

By: chic

chic — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:52:11 +0000

very nice