Upholstering Dining Chairs Part 6 – Progress

Well, I’m back working on the chairs and progress is slow. I’m not sure how fast I expect it to go when I am upholstering 8 chairs and only working 1 day a week. My motivation is slightly lacking at this point...I miss working with wood instead of fabric!

Work started with covering 6 more ‘wings’ (the curved side pieces) in 2 layers of batting and a layer of fabric.

Once those were assembled I glued and nailed them to 3 of the chairs. Now I have 4 chairs complete, only needing the back of the chair to be covered in fabric.

Of the remaining 4 chairs, 2 are not upholstered at all but the other 2 I did make some progress on the backs. The foam and batting are on and the fabric stapled in place, they just need the ‘wings’ covered and added.

And now we know: lots of batting is required for 8 chairs, so far I have gone through 1.5 bags and I will need at least 1 more to finish. 

Got the Fabric!!

Yay! I found another 7 yards of the same fabric at a store in Las Vegas!!

Upholstering Dining Chairs Part 5 - Finishing the Seat Covers

Last week I ordered the additional fabric online to be delivered to my in-laws in the US....and this week I cancelled the order. When the order didn’t ship in a week, I called to see what was going on. After a lot of back and forth where they didn’t know anything and didn’t call me back, it turns out the fabric is out of stock and will not even be cut until end of April. The in-laws will be back in Canada by then, so I had to cancel the order. Fingers crossed I can find the same fabric at a store in Vegas when we’re there next week!!

With the fabric drama hanging over my head, I did not get too much further on the actual chair frames. At this point 6 of 8 seats are covered and 4 of 8 backs are upholstered.

The cushions are another story, all 8 are almost done. I finished cutting the foam, covered each piece with bathing and stuffed them into the covers I sewed. All that is required now is hand sewing closed the backs.  

And now we know: even though the website says the order will be dispatched in 3 days and delivered in 5 they could be lying. It’s pretty bad customer service when you don’t even tell the customer that the order will be delayed almost a month!