Chair... recovered...

This is one I really should have taken a before picture of.  We bought this chair when Davin was about a year old, and although she enjoyed it, I think she used it more for doing tumbles off of than actually sitting in.  Miren, on the other hand, sits in it every single day while she watches her show.  The original light green gingham was looking a little brown, and overall it was just looking like a sad little chair.  Enter some Anna Maria Horner fabric and a new cover and it looks good as new!

I have never recovered a chair before, so I thought the easiest thing to do would be to deconstruct the existing cover and then use those pieces as my templates.  It was a bit time consuming, but I think it was worth it. 

I had a stack of Little Folks flannels that I was planning to make into a blanket, but given the fact that Dame and I already have an ongoing battle about exactly just how many blankets one family needs (I say you can never have too many, he argues they are just something else to fold and tidy up!), I thought we might be better served by using it for the chair cover, and I'm really glad I did, it adds such a great pop of vibrant colour to the room.

It took a few nights, although I think that was mostly in deciding which fabrics to put together, and then piecing it together.

I love how it looks, and Miren is pretty happy about it as well!