a morning well spent...

Salut from a very sunny SW France,

Here is the result of yesterday's upholstery class. The part that took me the longest to complete was removing all the tacks and it is not my most favourite of tasks.

After the lesson I finished another identical pad for a matching chair and started work on French Boyfriend's antique dog bed which to me looks like a tiny foot stool but happy that it is small as I am hoping that it will not take long to complete...

I am looking forward to spending the winter months tackling a range of upholstery projects and learning more about this fascinating skill.

We are very lucky to have such a fabulous and very patient teacher so I am making the best of this opportunity.

Meanwhile French Boyfriend is busy hunting through his stock of items that he wants recovered so think that I will be needing quite a few lessons.

à très bientot, Leeann x

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