Today's Project

Denise very kindly gave us one of her gliders to put in the baby's room.  I've been contemplating re-covering it to match the room since before we got it, but hadn't done it yet.  Mostly because I've never re-covered anything before, and this didn't seem like the sort of project I wanted to leave half-finished if the baby came early (which clearly isn't happening).

But, this morning as I was in bed not sleeping, I thought that re-covering the glider might be a good project for today.  So I headed off to the craft store as soon as they were open (it was an early morning for me and I never quite made it back to sleep).  I quickly found a fabric that I liked, actually, I re-found a fabric that I already knew I liked, I'd found it originally when looking for curtain fabric.  But at $17.99/yard, I wasn't sure I really wanted to make that sort of commitment.  Especially since this project had the potential to go horribly wrong, and who needs a $50 "learning experience".  So, finally I bought a small amount and thought I'd try it out just on the footrest.

Well, look how cute that turned out!?!  Of course I have to do the whole chair now.  The only problem being that I'd already used my 50% off coupon on the footrest fabric, and I'm still not willing to fork over the $17.99/yard, no matter how cute.  So, being the resourceful, classy girl that I am, I head out to the recycle bin (waiting on the side of the road for pick-up), and dig through until I find my JoAnne's circular that I'd thrown away a few days ago.  Of course, it didn't have a 50% coupon (40% off was the best I could do), but that's better than nothing.  So I made my second trip of the day to JoAnne's (thankfully it is less than 5 blocks away), and two hours later I had this:

I haven't quite figured out what to do with the armrest covers.  We may just live without, the current covers are snapped into place, and I can't find an easy way to work around that, which is what I did for all the other pieces.  Of course, I was almost completely done before I thought, "Guess I should have tried to match the stripes from top to bottom, oh well!"  But I did do a fairly fantastic job of pattern matching from the seat to the footrest (completely by accident).

The good news/bad news of this fabric is that it's an indoor-outdoor fabric, so it's not really washable, BUT it's fade-proof (not that we'll need that feature) AND semi-waterproof.  So hopefully we should be able to wipe all the baby-puke off fairly easily.