Last time when I dropped off Jen’s Oversized chair and Orange Damask Ottoman , she loaded me up with a pair of wingback chairs that she picked up at a consignment store. Another set of “telephone arms”….. darling shape, but a little more time consuming than a regular arm.

Before….notice the flat dated seat cushion. I was in the middle of ordering a down cushion for another client while I was staring at Jen’s cushion on my workroom table. I told my cushion guy that I might need a few more, so to hold off while I contacted Jen. She texted back in 30 seconds….”YES”

She did the chair in a gray cotton, linen look a like (grain lines like linen). She bought all they had and knew it wouldn’t be enough, so she decided to do the outside back in something fun. I was super excited to work on these….

I know that slipcovers tend to shift a little (back pulls forward when sat in alot) and I didn’t want the back to ride up and show the underneath. Especially since we were showing off the outside back and there wasn’t a skirt, so I staple gunned some velcro to the outside back of the top of the chair and sewed the other side of the velcro to my seam allowance.

I put a pin in the center outside back of the chair…to make sure the repeat was the same on both chairs.

Check out that new down envelope cushion! 100% worth the $. Don’t you think? Completely updates the chair and makes it look plush.

After…

My favorite….”telephone arms”. I also ran a band around the front with piping at the top…it helps it to shaped around the curve better.

Vertical seam joining the inside arm and outside arm….with piping of course.

Jen loves color and isn’t afraid of mixing patterns…I love it!

Another set of slipcovers that I wanted to keep for myself!

Linking up to Miss Mustard Seed furniture party!

Well, I finally got around to finishing some of my stuff. Here is my ottoman that I just finished with my fabric that I bought on my trip to North Carolina. I only bought 3 yards, so I matched the best I could.

I am loving the gray and yellow right now.

I made it a point to match up the large yellow flowers and not worry about the rest. I only had a few small scraps left.

Here it is all together.

I made a few new pillows to pull it all together. The bottom half of my walls are painted light blue, and I am lazy (busy) and don’t want to repaint, so I put a blue chevron pillow on the couch to make it look like it’s on purpose.

I also made a turquoise bias ruffled pillow…not sure if it’s too much with everything else, so I took it out to see if I like it better without. We’ll see.

Side Note— running Vegas Ragnar Relay in two days!

This pair of wingback chairs were for my friend Paula…who I met on a race. I ended up running on her team for Del Sol Ragnar earlier this year. I had a small problem at the cabin…no stove. Well the “REAL PROBLEM” was we didn’t have wiring to plug in the stove that I bought.

On the race when I found out Paula’s husband was an electrician I was super excited, and we decided to do trade.

Her princess chairs before…

After… she got this great pinstripe (brown/blue)…kind of like a menswear for $2/yd on clearance. Sorry the front is a bit wrinkled, I had them folded up in bags to bring back for a few weeks until our schedules worked out.

Another set of wingbacks with “telephone arms”…at least that’s what I call them. They look like the old school telephones.

We did a mini knife pleat on the skirt to feminine them up a bit. Paula is very girly, but was trying to please her husband too…since he did all the work for the trade. So that’s why she decided to go with the pinstripe rather than a green cheetah print.

Inside arm

Front…I did a row of piping along the front edge of the seat.

Here’s the pair of them in her bedroom.

I love the way they turned out. My favorite masculine fabric on a feminine shaped chair.

Side Note—
I am sure most of you are aware…I have 3 boys and no girls. I don’t make hair bows…I make “bullet belts”. Check out my latest creation!

An old cotton belt that I had kicking around plus some 1/2″ ribbon.

My youngest loves it! It holds all his dart gun bullets

I just stitched the end of the ribbon, then laid a bullet down to measure, slid the bullet out of the slot and backstitched a few times and kept doing it till it was full of bullet slots.

Great for birthday party gifts or Christmas gifts!