Fibermania

Melody's Workshop

This is the dining room in my old house. Very spare black, white and red.

I covered all those chairs with zebra velvet. Appropriate for that house, not so good for the new Mexican Chalet. Plus the velvet had a drag effect when you sat down on it . Shifting positions was um, difficult.

Yesterday I recovered two of them in royal purple satin. Much easier to slip around on the seat. But I was still not happy. The backs of these chairs are not so comfy. I wanted a poufy backing.

It took several days for the right idea to form in my head about the construction. Eventually I found a nearly right idea in an old issue of Mary Englebreit's Home Companion.

A thick layer of batting and a 60" long swath of satin backed with a similar length of purple cotton. Then the fave mother of pearl buttons. Voila!

Here they are (taken with a flash, as it is still dark outside) in their place. That carpet has got to go.