Jen from Tatertots and Jello Blog emailed me to help her out with her BIG sectional. She ordered some turquoise cotton fabric from fabric.com. The back cushions were getting a little slouchy with the single piping (pillow style), so I ended up “boxing” (box cushion…2 rows of piping) them.

 She loves a boxpleat skirt, so I did a boxpleat skirt all the way around both pieces (2 piece sectional). It wasn’t just a couch and a loveseat piece pushed together…it was 2 full size couches…It was LARGE.

Here is the before…nice, but just brown.

Here is the after. TURQUOISE!!!! She had reservations about the fabric. When I showed up to do the fitting she had her huge stack of 55 yds prewashed fabric sitting there, and she asks me, “What do you think? Am I crazy to do turquoise?”….my answer, “NO…my sectional at the cabin is slipcovered in turquoise fabric”…my second thought in my head, you already bought 55 yds and prewashed it, you can’t return it! So let’s do it!

LOOK how stinkin’ amazing it looks!!!! Bright and Fun and it matched her pillows that she had already made. She said she’s planning on painting the black table behind the couch cream/white.

I had to do little tucks on the back corners on the rolled back separated by piping (that’s where I hid my zipper).

5″ box pleat skirt all the way around.

She loved how cheerful it turned out. She was a great sport to let me come over for the fitting the morning she got back from being out of the country!!!

Her pillows.

Another after shot.

Another view.

This is for Camille’s (running partner) daughter’s room. A few months ago, Camillle and I went thrifting and searching for some fabric at the fabric store. Our original intent was to find a chair to slipcover for Reagan’s room. WE found a chair at ReStore, and Camille decided that she liked it enough to leave it alone and not slipcover it.

Then we headed to the fabric store to find fabric for a duvet cover. She fell in love with this red floral…kind of antiquey with a little bit of pink…that we were hoping would tie in the chair.

She bought enough fabric for the duvet, and remembered she had a pink flat sheet at home to put on the back. I always have tons of scraps and fabrics kicking around, so I told her we’d figure out pillows later….. I had enough red for a bedskirt and Euro pillow. I used this same red fabric on some red ruffled pillows I made at Christmas time.

We wanted to make it a little bit funky and more like a “little” girls room, so I tried to mix fabrics together that were a little unexpected. I think it worked!!! I loved the way it all came together.

I had just enough pink polka dot and turquoise ric-rac to make this pillow work. The ends are the red fabric cut on the bias (diagonal) 2″ strips and ruffled in the seam. No need to hem since on the bias it doesn’t fray a ton.

The pillow sham was made out of this yellow print that I have always loved and have kept on hand and haven’t used. I piped it out of some scrap piping that I found in my piping box.

I ruffled the Euro pillow out of the 2″ bias strips as well.

Close up of bolster….the yellow dot is from the parson chairs and club chairs that I slipcovered at my cabin

Here’s the chair we got and Camille painted the doll house light blue to tie in the ric rac on the bolster pillow. We are still plannning on doing a red ruffled pillow on the chair out of the small scraps of red that are left. The yarn flower picture on the wall is from Camille’s Grandma’s house….it works perfect!

I am a firm believer that beds need bedskirts! I love the gathered bedskirt in this room.

This client was ready to get rid of the country blue gingham that she’d had for about 10 years, and go a with basic white. Her back cushions were attatched, so I cut them off. They had a single row of piping originally (pillow style) and we ended up boxing them to give them a cleaner look.

When I cut off the back cushions the filling wasn’t contained…it was just loose polyfil that was coming out. I knew she was going to need to be able to take off the covers and wash them. So I made muslin covers to contain the batting.

Here is the before of the loveseat…blue/cream gingham.

After…white denim slipcovers with the back cushions “boxed” (2 rows of piping).

Front of arm

Couch…after

Couch and loveseat together.

You can barely see the lapped zipper on the back corner… just the way I like it.