Showing posts with label britex fabric. Show all posts
Showing posts with label britex fabric. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

how to: refinishing your vintage finds (part two)


This is part two in a two part series of refinishing your vintage finds. Or semi-vintage, as is the case with these folding chairs inherited from Partner-in-Crime's grandmother. Fairly comfortable due to the padded seat and back, these chairs were not so easy on the eyes. But I knew there was still life in them. A few hours later, they looked like this:



In part one, I covered how to spray paint a great find. But what if your find includes some um, less than current, fabric like these beauties? Part two will teach you how to do a basic re-upholstery job. Often with simple chairs, you can recover the seat without having to actually sew anything because the back or bottom is covered or not visible. That's the case with these folding chairs. Recover your chairs in five* easy steps after the jump.


*Okay, okay. Six. But the sixth one is reattaching the seat.

Saturday, September 3, 2011

britex fabric


Britex Fabrics is a crafty-girls' playground, four floors of fabric, buttons, ribbon and random bits. Most of the fabric is out of my price range (and then there is the fact that I can't sew) but the random bits are just right. I found a few things to spark my creativity and am looking forward to many repeat trips.

[Projects to be]