The last post sort of ends without a conclusion which I’ll
post as soon as I figure out what point I am trying to make. In the meantime,
here is an in-progress look at the current home decor project I’m working on:
I have two very old and ugly apartment size sofas and last
summer I splurged on Pottery Barn natural canvas slipcovers. Between the dog,
the Kid, and our barbaric habit of taking meals in the living room, these are in
the wash almost weekly (and need it more frequently). The slipcovers are the “tuck
to fit” kind, and frankly, tucking and fitting them is too tiring to tackle
more than once a month. I’ve resorted to putting quilts and blankets over the
slipcovers to help keep them clean, but have tired of the ‘dorm room chic’ look
this creates. I had planned to sew fitted slipcovers, and have already bought
the fabric, but have procrastinated because the fabric is also a natural color,
and will need to be laundered as frequently the current set. Instead, I’ve
decided to make coordinating patchwork sofa covers for the slip covers using
left over fabric. Sort of like grandma’s plastic couch covers, but not plastic.
The top has been pieced and I kind of like the way it looks a bit modern (even
Bauhaus?) and a bit Navaho at the same
time. I chose the color scheme carefully to coordinate with the surroundings:
I purposely avoided using a complicated design as I want
this to be an easy project. The layers are currently pin basted together (top,
low loft batting, backing) waiting to be machine quilted. I’m pretty sure the
quilting is going to ruin the whole thing because I've never machine quilted before,
am using a crappy machine (the one called the drunken tailor), the angles are
wonky, and I can’t find the quilting foot. In fact, if it gets
finished without catching fire or being eaten by the dog, it will turn out
better than expected.
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