work in progress...

Bonjour mes belles,

I hope that you had a nice week-end. Ours was a very hot one and Meteo were forecasting the risk of a storm which eventuated in the middle of the night but as a result it is not as hot today and there is a nice breeze in the air.

Despite the heat, I managed to find a couple of goodies which I have not had time to photograph as I have spent most of the day deconstructing the bottom of the chair that you see pictured above.

Unfortunately?! the bottom has had it's days so needs to be rebuilt but before I can do this, all of the original seating part needs to be removed which involves removing what seems like millions of tacks which is time consuming and involves a lot of muscle power......

I have a reupholstery lesson scheduled for next Monday so will take the camera with me so you can see the reconstruction step by step.....

amicalement from a very sunny SW France, Leeann

Upholstery lesson 3 - a new project

Bonjour mes belles,

Ours was another busy weekend and it was over before we knew it.

I managed to get some treasure hunting in yesterday and we found a few fabulous items which I have not had time to photograph.

Reason being I spent this morning having another upholstery lesson with the fabulous Debra, starting work on a chair that I found yesterday morning.

It needed more stuffing so it has been restuffed, lined and covered in antique chanvre type material and edged with some vintage passmenterie in a lovely cream colour which matches the colour of the fabric.

The material and lining were tacked on and I am slowly getting to grips with using a hammer, the last time I used one was when I was 13 years old in a wood working class which was quite some time ago.....

At next week's lesson I will be adding some additional stuffing to the top part of the chair and then lining and covering then finishing it with some more lovely edging.

 

Love the detail on the chair.....

The top part of the chair is what the bottom part looked like before I recovered it, I have never seen a chair undressed before  and now appreciate the work that goes into making a chair.

I cannot wait until my next lesson.......

Back tomorrow with some photos of the goodies that I found yesterday.

à demain, Leeann x