Today's PSA...upholstery!

[Spiky Bugger]

I've seen those kind.

I took a photo one time of Old Ugly and Big Ugly (two of my chairs) Old Ugly was my grandmothers and she slip covered it before I was born (almost 60 years now). Big Ugly was a freebie while I was in The Netherlands thanks to Uncle Sam. I THINK the ottoman belongs to Old Ugly. I also got two high back wing arm chairs and ottoman that goes with it off Freecycle. They aren't as important to me...Old Ugly and Big Ugly ARE as they both have meaning to me.

Yes, I have "issues" with some stuff.

Our bedroom is now filled with a mid-century modern collection Mom bought for my sister and me right around 1960. The maple coffee or magazine table that was ALWAYS at my Mom's is in my den...with one of her lamps. I nagged my niece into taking my parents' dining and bedroom furniture that my parents bought around 1950. I had to buy a house with a dining room, because I have my grandparents' dining room furniture they bought about 1929. And, packed up in the rafters of the garage is my grandparents's bedroom furniture, also purchased around 1929. (Hopefully on sale after the stockmarket crashed, but probably not.)

My daughter says that if I expect her to keep all this stuff when I die, I need to leave her enough money for her to buy a house with HER bedroom, HER office, and then three extra bedrooms just for family furniture and a dining room.

 

[Munchkin]

I want to learn how to do this! What's the best way? Are there classes?

 

[Sheanie]

I enrolled at my local community college, where they had Juki upholstery sewing machines. Those machines are what you need in order to do upholstery. They stitch 1500 stitches per minute, which is about 3 times faster than a home machine. So the material FLIES out the key. If you have sewing experience, you will fly through the class. You might even be able to just watch some You Tube videos and pick it up. My sister watched me do it, then did her own couch, which is a HUGE undertaking for a first project. She borrowed my compressor and I coached her thru the hard parts.

@Munchkin you should go for it! I don't do it for other people, just my own furniture. I hate other people's taste in fabric and furniture, and won't work on something I don't think is beautiful. Which probably makes me a snob, but I don't care.

 

[Munchkin]

I have a lot of sewing experience. I have 2 machines that will do leather. One is a treadle(Singer Sphinx) I restored myself. I will look for a class!