A New Cover For the Round Chair

I hated sewing this slipcover. Not a fun project. Here is the before, ever since we moved the cream sofa into this room, the yellow undertones were fighting with the cool white of the fabric on this chair and I new I needed to do something.

Here was the sequence of events:

1. Find a great navy blue velvet fabric that goes perfectly with the blue wall colour
2. Cut and sew ¾ of the way round the slipcover with the cat sitting on the fabric as it goes through the sewing machine.
3. Spend 2 hours hand sewing the opening closed as the fabric is so thick the needle will barely go through.
4. Discover the existing buttons are not the type that can be recovered.
5. Take a trip to the fabric store to buy a button making set.
6. Attempt to make the new buttons, discover the fabric is too heavy.
7. Decide to abandon the buttons and just stitch the 8 spots together so at least the cushion will have some shape.
8. Discover the thread is not strong enough to pull the sides together.
9. LOSE THE NEEDLE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CUSHION.
10. Borrow a giant magnet from my mother
11. Try to find the needle with the magnet but end up cutting the stiching and removing the new cover to find the needle.
12. Put the cover back on and hand sew the opening closed again.
13. Start to tuft the cushion again with a much larger needle.
14. Discover it is really hard to do while it is on the floor so use 4 chairs to get it off the floor.
15. Get lots of help from the cat who attacks the needle and thread on every pass through the cushion.
16. Finally finish!

Fun times. Looks good now though.

And now we know: a standard button making kit doesn’t work with really thick upholstery fabric. Cat’s are really helpful with sewing projects.