then she’ll compulsively sort through closets of clothing, collecting heaps of outgrown cast offs.
When she has those bags of clothes, she’ll probably get a wild idea to *make* something out of those pieces of fabric. You know, because she doesn’t have anything better to do.
When she has those pieces of fabric all spread out on the table and starts sewing away, she won’t make time for anything but eating or sleeping. Not even blogging.
And then, when her project is finished, she’ll realize she’s behind on moving preparations so she’ll go back to the closet and find more clothes . . .
I have this fantastic, comfortable chaise that is perfect in every way except that it is covered in silver fabric that gets watermarked if you even look at it wrong. Add a little toddler drool and sticky fingers and my new chair looked beat to death in about 10 minutes. I’ve been wanting to get a cover for it and was thinking about having the tailor make one, but hadn’t gotten around to it. It was too much trouble to find a fabric, take measurements, figure out the best design for it . . .
When I was sorting through our linen closet I found an old jersey fitted sheet that had worn thin in a few places. The elastic edges gave me an idea so I stretched it out over the top cushion of the chair like I was putting on a hairnet. It was much too big, but I figured I could take it in in a few places and make it fit.
Then like all good crafty plans, the project got bigger. I had a bunch of Camille’s old clothes and had been kicking around the idea of making a crazy quilt with pieces of her baby clothes. I thought it would be cute and I’ve been itching for normal cotton fabric to sew with (so much of the fabric here is specialty fabric, poly blends, etc). So I set out to make a crazy quilt style cover for my chair.
When it’s finished, none of the blue will show. The photo colors are coming out odd under our fluorescent lighting, but the colors of the fabric pieces are purples, pinks and browns.
