As you know when I’m not blogging, or crafting with my children, I’m sewing. I always have a few projects on the go and my current project is the Union Flag quilt I’m making for my daughter. I’ve been trying to add some handmade touches to her room so I’m also making a patchwork cover for her vintage Lloyd Loom nursing chair. It was added to her room when we moved 2 years ago but I wanted to match the cover to her pink colour scheme.
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I would love to cover a pouffe!
this computer chair im sitting on its a bit tatty
A leather sofa!
the sofa
Sofa 🙂
My comfy armchair that I’ve had for a zillion years is in desperate need of some tender loving care
I’d recover all the dining room chairs – they are desperately in need of it!
the sofa
Stop inspiring me so much 🙂 I have so little time and I want to start a bazillion projects now!! (doing something patchwork like has been on the to-do list for ages now)
I don’t actually know what I’d do with any fabric, but I’d do something. It’d live in my craft bag where all my lovely stuff lives until we have something which needs covering – although I might start patchwork tomorrow night at my knitting group now!!
my settee x
My old ottamon in my bedroom,it’s so old fashioned!
The sofa, why we chose cream when we have 5 cats and a dog I’ll never know
We have just recovered an old recliner, and are about to start on some footstools and dining chairs.
Oooh exciting. I’d love to cover my chairs.
an old sofa
What a great giveaway! Hope I am lucky! 🙂
Well, Since I have 4 chairs that I found at yard sales for the purpose of recovering and still haven’t recovered them, I think those are what I would like to work on 🙂
My dining chairs
My sofa could definitely do with a makeover! x
My chaise longue which the cat has plucked to hell out of!
The kitchen chairs.
My office chair as it is torn so I have a throw over it so I can still use it.
A chair for my daughter to have at university when she leaves home in September !!
I’d love to make some decorations and cover a chair for our new granddaughter’s nursery. She’s due in August!
I have a very old Liberty Chesterfield sofa that is in a very sorry state. It’s still so comfortable despite needing to be completely reupholstered so I’d so love to get her back to her former glory.
Dining chairs.
our sofa x
The ratty old armchair we have
i have a footstool that could do with covering 🙂
The pouffe!
I have a chair which needs recovering x
My favourite armchair which is in the corner of the dining room!
My dining room chairs they are terrible and don’t help with a little one who likes to pull at them
my dining room chairs
My sofa 🙂
The couch
My dining room chairs
Sofa
I’d love to find a lovely footstool/pouffe and ottoman so I could re-cover them and bring them back to life.
Our sofa has seen better days, but I think it is beyond recovering alone.
my office chair
my chairs xx
My chairs in the dining area
I’d like to make my kitchen stools more comfortable
My husbands office chair
my dining chairs
My sofa.
I have a really ugly old armchair which is just crying out to be covered
Computer chair my cat likes to sharpen his claws on it – bless…
My sofa
my dining room chairs
i have an old bedding box and i would love to cover it with some sort of bird print but im yet to find the right fabric lol ! fab giveaway x
Dining room chairs
The sofa
my dining room chairs. thanks x
The dining room chairs as they are looking a little shabby now x
I’d love to make a padded cover for my wooden rocking chair
I recently created a patchwork using a similar method to your one here – I’ve just started picking up my needles again and this would be great to help me get going ! Looking forward to seeing the completed nursing chair cover!
My sofa
Dining chairs!x
I have very comfy armchair, that the kitten climbed and plucked repeatedly
An old cane chair we have had for 30 plus years
an old fashion stool
My scruffy armchair, with cat-scratch-marks on it
My cats princess seat
My dining chairs
Would love to do the sofa, and then keep the cat away from it!
An old chair in my conservatory that was my Grandmas.
My sofa – the cats have owned it! 🙂 x
A leather sofa!
My dining room chairs
Our sofa – it could definitely use it.
It would be wonderful to cover my daughter’s dressing table stool, she is 24 and loves pretty things, just as she did when she was little!!
The Sofa
My old armchair
chair in my bedroom
My dining room chairs
My armchair which has become a bit frayed at the sides
On the study chair
My sofa
Our sofa
my sofa could do with a loving make over due to a rather cheeky dog we was looking after a week after purchasing new leather reclyner sofa ..sobs
I have a lovely footstool that has seen better days but would look fantastic if it was recovered
An old armchair.
my sofa
a footstool 😀
Our piano stool really needs recovering
My sofa
My favourite armchair.
My dining chairs could do with a bit of an update.
I would love to cover the seat of a wooden chair that I have in my daughters bedroom.
My footstool. x
Ottoman 🙂
id cover my awful dining room chairs
sofa
chairs
I bought some 2nd hand cane furniture neecs a makeover to be perfect
My tatty but much loved chair
Sofa – I bought a bright green Sofa on a really sunny happy shiny day.. I am really struggling to find anything that goes well with it!
A lovely chair which means alot to me 🙂
My old wicker chair
I have an old dark wooden bench/seat storage box that my Aunty Edith gave me, i would love to make a cushion/ seat pad and cover for it. yellow and blue patchwork would look nice i think!!!
Our old armchair
I’d cover my sofa if I could
Our sofa
I would love to recover my dressing table stool
My sofa and armchair
I would love to cover my granddads favourite arm chair, it has over the last year become really old and tatty looking and I would love to jazz it up for him and get the cushion replaced so that it is comfortable for him! I would buy him a new chair but its his favourite and he will not let me bless him!!
dining room chairs
We have a piano stool that needs some TLC
My sofa is a disaster!
Bench seat
Piano seat
The office chair
Dining chairs
The stool in my bedroom
My dining room chairs 🙂
If I could I would recover my sofa. It is soo comfy but it is old and worn.
Some of the chairs we’ve got as seating areas for our cat – they’re an ugly brown and would look so much better in our space if they were a more vibrant colour!
A bit dramatic I know but my corner sofa lol
my dining room chairs
I have a couple of old chairs that are a ghastly colour!
dining room chairs
I’d love to be able to recover the sofa in the living room as I cant afford a new one at the moment so just have a throw on it. I have in the past covered the chair in my bedroom and the computer chair 🙂
My old blue sofa, needs some love and attention!
Sitting chair
Computer Chair 🙂