Friday, February 29, 2008

A few weeks ago I bought this kitchen stool from an op-shop. 
After a couple of hours of working on it tonight, it now looks like this:
It was pretty easy, and looks soooo much better. 

I just pulled the old seat off, carefully unpicked all the vinyl, then used that to make my pattern pieces. I have used the Ladybug fabric made by Kristen and some natural coloured linen. I covered the fabric in iron-on vinyl (bought online from the US - so, so much cheaper than Spotlight) to make it more durable and easily washable. The hardest part was the piping - the plastic cord that was in the old seat was too short by about 6cm! I had nothing like it in my stash, so just had to make do without that 6cms.


2 comments:

Juddie said...

Wow! I would never have known how to reupholster a stool like that! Very cute ....

Jo (sparkly green knickers) said...

I love it, so much nicer to look at than the old stool!