quick redo

Am I the only one out there that puts off projects that I don't really want to do??

Ok, so I have this little chair that sits beside my desk and it was getting very tired looking.

The pillow had a tear on the seam and

the footstool had been bleached one too many times and it got a small tear and one day Sophie decided to make the tear bigger,

so it looked something like this....

Not good.

So the other day, I just got totally sick of looking at it and I took about 45 minutes and gave my chair a little fix-up.

I started by printing an "h" onto some transfer paper.

(i'm not sure if i love the font i chose, but oh well :))

Then I ironed it onto a scrap piece of toile fabric from the previous pillowcase.

Then I made a simple pillowcase from some burlap...

which happens to be what I'm making everything out of lately!!

Sophia was helping me design it...she thought it needed a bunch of buttons. :)

I actually do like it, but I didn't want to sew a ton of buttons on at that point!



So here's the end result...

With the tear on the footstool,

I decided to do sort of a tattered, patchy look and

layer some different patches over the tear.

I used some plain cream cotton, burlap, and more scrap toile.

Around the toile patch, I hand stitched some thick thread.

Better, right?

Yes, I think it is.

I wonder what other projects I can do now that will take 10 minutes that have been bugging me for 10 months :)

Have a great day!!

xo

{alicia}