Both Slip-covers Are Finished

Here she is in her finery, my second slip-cover.   It turned out a little better than the first one and it did not take nearly as long to make it. 

Before:

After:

The first one took about 18 hours, this one took about 9 hours all together.

Then I made the little vintage inspired pillows, that fabric is so 60's, it just kills me to look at it.  I can see it in my minds eye on a chair much like this one, only the pillow and the chair are in rust colors and I can faintly smell stale smoke.  A family friends home, obviously, not ours. 

I love it, though, it is so retro.

I'm so happy to be finished with it.

I have also finished several other smaller projects, they will give me something to blog about over the next couple of weeks.  

I feel like my little cottage is finally coming together, it's looking like I have envisioned it, for so long.

Finding new colors and painting the walls was the biggest challenge.  I'm very happy with all of the changes in the living room, a new paint job, the fireplace, the rug and the slip-covers.  Next comes the mantel, I won't be doing that, my husband will be, I will be waiting on him for that.

If you feel inspired to make slip-covers for the first time, I would advise you to go to Miss Mustard Seed's blog and watch her entire series starting here:

Video Slipcover Series Part 1 – Custom Piping

 I cannot imagine what I would have done if I had not done that.  There are six parts and they are so very helpful.

Thank you so much for coming by, like many of you we still have Winter weather.  They say when you're handed a lemon, make lemon-aid, so when I'm handed Winter weather, I will go skating!  I'm hoping to do that now that I've completed my slip-covers.

Have a great day and thank you for coming by, my friends, 

Cindy

Such a happy little pair of chairs, now.