Slipcovers by Shelley

Occasional Chair

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First of all—I know I haven’t posted in about 4 weeks (Summer hit me hard this year). Follow me on my slipcovershelley facebook page for more regular updates. You can also now follow me on Instagram (search slipcovershelley). 
My client had two of these chairs. She thought they were a great size to use as occasional chairs, and move from room to room as needed.
 Chair–BEFORE

Chair–AFTER

 I did 4″box pleat skirt all the way around the base. Since there was not a separate seat cushion, I did a band around the front with piping and tuck in around the seat.

 I also piped down the inside arm.

 On the skirt, I did a 1″ blind hem and then pleated. The fabric (white denim) was too heavy to self line and pleat nicely.

SIDE NOTES!!!

#1—This is now my life…SUMMER DAYS with the boy crew from the neighborhood. Trying to keep up with them is crazy! Sleepovers, campfires, drives to the dollar store, making food, lizard catching, scout camps, etc. I am just going with it, and if I don’t blog for a few weeks it’s fine.

#2–Last weekend I took Carter with me to Seattle to my Nephew’s Mission Farewell. He is heading to Ghana for two years to serve a mission for the LDS church.

Carter loves him so much! He cried his eyes out when it was time to say goodbye.

Hanging out with Carter before church.
 The whole family went to Pikes Market, then we took a ferry Bainbridge Island.

 Carter was excited to hold a real octopus at Pikes Market and shop for t-shirts for his brothers that we left at home.
 Carter was excited to get the window seat on the plane ride home….check out our view!
 Morning after I got back from Seattle, Logan headed off to Camp Alma for a week (scout camp).
#3—I am running the WASATCH BACK RAGNAR in 3 days! Camille, Teresa, and I ended up getting on a sponsored team for SCHEELS! We are so excited….free entry, free running shoes, free van rental, free gas…What more could a girl want?!

#4—I switched out my couches for these awesome blue nubby couches that I found on my local (Utah) Vintage Yardsale Facebook page. I LOVE THEM!!! It’s actually a really long couch that comes apart, so I am using them as two loveseats. My youngest doesn’t like that there isn’t an arm on one side (he fell off while eating his cereal)—he shouldn’t be eating cereal on my awesome couches, anyhow!!!

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Striped Upholstered Rocker

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My client wanted to redo this chair for her little girls room.
Chair—BEFORE—you can see my pins marking my center, so I could line up all those stripes.

Chair–AFTER– this stripe wasn’t symmetrical, it ran pink, blue, green,pink….. I decided the pink stripe was the most dominant that my eye went to–so I picked the center between the pink stripes to be my center (white stripe with tiny pinstripe of light blue). This way it looked more symmetrical.

I notched out around the rockers.

Lapped zipper on back right corner next to the piping.

The top corners were more rounded, so I did a kiss pleat (like the original) instead of a seam or fold one way. I also did piping down the inside arm seam (looks nicer this way, especially with stripes).

I timed the stripes on the front of the arms to coincide with the front…so they don’t miss a beat. (This is easier to do than you might think….I took photos for my Advanced Slipcovering guide, and will give you step by step instructions)

Side Note—My sister found this old photo of my grandparents. They used to travel across the country and sleep in their car quite often. Here they are sleeping in their station wagon. It’s like a Ragnar race! Now that my marathon is over, I am seriously debating jumping on a team to run Wasatch Back next month.

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White Couch Slipcover

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My client decided she wanted to redo her couch in white twill.

BEFORE—

Couch—AFTER— I was in love with all her decorating—that turquoise secretary desk was 100% me.

And check out her rug in the entry! BEAUTIFUL!!!

I had enough fabric, so I self-lined the skirts.

We decided to “box” the back cushions to give it a cleaner lines.

SIDE NOTE— I ran my first full Marathon this past weekend! I finished in 4 hours and 30 min.
Here we are at 3:30am getting ready to go catch the bus to the start line! We’d been training since January. It was a bit brutal on those 8 degree days.
Here we are at the start line….pouring rain, luckily they handed out trash bags on the bus. Here’s our group of 5 from my neighborhood that signed up.

Here is Teresa and I at mile 13! Still feeling great. I decided to take it easy and enjoy the journey and not push hard for a good time. I ignored the 4:15 pacer when he passed us—I didn’t want to feel pressure to go faster.
I wore my trash bag till mile 20…it was still raining, but more of a drizzle by then. I was SOAKED by the finish. I couldn’t wait to get back to the condo to sit in the hot tub and eat chocolate donuts!

Here I am running into the finish—my boys jumped in and ran the last bit with me! It wasn’t as hard as I thought it was going to be. I never hit the “wall” that everyone talks about. 
At mile 22 I was thinking, “Yea!!! I won’t have to stop and use the porta potty!” Almost immediately after that thought, I had to start looking for the next porta potty! Dang it! Oh well enjoy the journey right? I ended up having to find one at 23 miles and again at 24.5 miles! Too much powerade, I guess!
Teresa and I finished it together!

All five of us finished within 18 min. of each other. The first of us came in at 4:12 and the last of us came in at 4:30. 

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