OPPS! MY BAD!

FAIL.... MAJOR FAIL. On keeping up with this. The chair looks great and I finished it about 2 weeks ago. The next part of the chair I worked on was the cushion. And because I was so peeved with this part of the chair I didn't really take any photos. SO! Im just going to directing yall to the person I have been following. HERE!

ALSO! Im going to make it up to yall (for the ones who are reading this) TWO EXTRA STEPS!!! YAY!

And this part Im not sure what its called but I kept calling it the decorative part or the panel. Heres what ones looks like if your still not sure.

OH YEAH that part. This part it easy, which is nice when you have to wrestle with the cushion so many times. On my chair I have two different areas where the panels stick. If you have any on your chair you see that it is nailed on. If you don't have to replace the original peice then just leave the nails in and wrap some fabric around it, put a piece of batting to fluff it up. Then staple. Also if you want staple the pipping around it as well. Then with a rubber mallet hammer the piece in.

If your panel is straight I bet your piece is still in tacted. If not or your part is curved like my seconded one then it might have fallin to peices. Here is how you re-create that piece.

First, keep all your peices. If you some how misplaced some try to put the ones you have already like the top and width. Then with a ruler or some kind of measuring tape on how long you think the piece should be.

Then with a piece of MDF board (you might be able to buy small sheets at home depot or your local hard ware store. I wouldn't use cardboard because its flimsy and doesn't hold the nail well.

Trace the piece that you have on the board. Make it the size that you need. Then cut out with a box knife.

thought this would be cool if i reupholster it again or someone else finds it.

When you fished cutting it out make sure the piece fits. If it fits the put nails into the board.

Wrap the fabric around the board on the side where the nail head is. Do the same thing like you did with the ones before. Wrap. lightly stuff, staple, and hammer. The reason you want to use a rubber mallet is so you don't make a whole in the fabric with the nail. (TRUST ME!) Well its not visible but yeah it happens.

OKAY thats i-t......wait I have one more to tell.....

NAIL HEADS!!! YAY! I personally used the nail head stripes only because this was my first time and because i needed something small to use. So this is pretty easy to explain, I prob don't need to actually need to say anything BUT I have one small tip. Wear gloves... heres why!

As you're handling the trim the smooth edges might seem smooth but when you half way through you start to see alittle blood on you hand (don't worry it didn't get on my chair!) The trim must have cut me without me knowing. they were small cuts but it was still very strange to me.

......Heres some pictures!

Also hopefully i will post a blog after this one about ALL my mistakes so that it brings awareness you what you will be doing. But the problem is Im not sure when this will be posted. Hopefully sooner than later because my classes are already kicking my ass. :) yay?!

BACK! So Close To Being FInished!!!

Oh Dear Baby Jesus! Okay guys. This was a dangerous task. Well, the only danger that was occurring was trying to staple down the ply grip to the chair. If you missed the hole... IT WOUOLD BOUNCE BACK AT YOU! Again Im sorry if this is freaking you out and you shouldn't be scared. Just wear some goggles. And be prepared to use A LOT of staples.

OKAY HERE-WE-GO

Step One: Cut fabric.... YEah yeah..

Step Two: Apply Ply Grip strips wherever needed. I started off putting the strip at the top but then I realized  I needed it because of the top part of the chair. I'll explain what did there in the next step. But On my Chair the ply grip is on the sides. (Sorry I didn't take any pictures at this point)

Step Three: Stapling the top. With my chair I did the exact same thing I did with the outside of the arm. I measured out from side to side, cut a strip of cardboard, and then stapled.

Step Four: Using the ply grip strips. I know I did it the wrong way. I still have little strings hanging out of the side of the chair that are very hard to get rid of. So this is what I think you should do. Cut the fabric an inch wider than the chair (1/2" for each side). Then stuff the fabric into the ply grip and close it. Do the same for the other side. Make sure the back is tight. What I did was just fold the fabric in the grip and the cut of the extra and then try to stuff as much fabric in the grip as I could. And if you have a part where something is going to be covered by something else like a panel (I think thats what its called) then just staple it.

Step Five: Staple the bottom

Oh thats bad. OPPS!

Done.

Next post will be the extra part on the arms

Going from the inside.... OUT!

Here We go! The outside. This was super easy and don't freak out.

Alright! So when I was reading how to put this back together on the blog Im following. She talked about how her chair came with cardboard that is under the rolled part of the arm. I guess my chair is so old that it didn't have it. So for me and if you don't have this. Measure from front to back. Cut about an inch wide stripe of cardboard.

Step eh...whatever. Cut out the fabric for the outside of the arms

This might sound weird but lay the fabric wrong side out over the arm. Pull some of the fabric down to where it goes a little over where you would put the piece of cardboard.

Then put the cardboard and staple it down. Pull the fabric around so that the right side is out and you can see the nice straight edge it gives you.

Hope this clarifies it better

Staple down the bottom

Staple the Front. Here again you need to pay attention to the detail and folding when you staple. You also need to make sure you keep the staples close together. I only say this because when you put the piece on top over it. You don't want just one little staple to stick out. Im having a few of those mistakes. *SIGH*

Then staple the back.

WOW! Super Easy

Arm Shmarms

Good Morning! Arms! For me this was pretty okay spot. Personally for me I would have done the arms before the back where your back leans against. And that would be my first tip for you. Arms then Back.


Okay lets start off with some batting.

Step One: Measure the length from outside of the curved part of the arm to the inside of the of the arm and where you would be stapling the batting down (with a little extra for wiggle room). Then staple the batting to the arm. Add as much as you want. I just added one layer, well two because when I bought my batting it was originally folded in half.

Step Two: Cut out your fabric for the inside of the arms if you haven't already.

Step Three: Staple! Start with the outside of the rolled arm or whatever you have and staple. then the bottom. This is another place I messed up because on my chair their are certain spots where the structure of the chair get in the way of the fabric. So in order to keep everything tight you have to cut around the structure. Well my problem was that I cut too much. And in one spot you can still see the batting. OPPS!

Step Four: Start stapling the front. Work your way from the bottom up. When you get to the top you want to really pay attention to detail on this part. you want you folds to be as perfect as possible.

Step Five: Staple the back.

Step Six: Repeat on other side.

After your done with both side personally for me if you have any extra fabric I would leave it be until you know for sure you don't need it or it get in the way. I only say this because I would cut off too much then realize I need to redo that part but not have enough fabric.

Later tonight I will post the outside of the arms. YAY!

Tuff, Stuff, Sew, and STAPLE!

STAPLE TO YOUR HEARTS CONTENT!

ha-ha sorry for my absence, I have been working (at work) and working (on the chair).


ALRIGHT! Lets get straight to business. THE BACK! Well the back part where your back leans against. This part really confused me because the blog I am following to make this chair did not explain this part. Or I just couldn't find it. SO I just had to wing it, also my back was different than hers. She used in her demonstration a loose cushion. Where mine is a tight back that wasn't just flat but was .... mm...puckered? That's the word I'm going with. So let me just start off with this the most difficult part for me. But don't let that discourage you from doing this. Start off with something a little easier. I kinda wish I did but OH WELL. Whats done and now lets begin!

Step One: Cutting the fabric. For some of yall what I'm doing isn't going to  matter. Just skip to the part where you think the next step is for you.

Step Two: I used the old fabric as a templet (hope everybody still has there scrapes) on where to pin.

Step Three: Then sew. You can go into JoAnns or any other to get upholstery thread and the needle that fits to go with you're sewing machine.

(PS IM IN LOVE WITH TRANSFORMERS!!!!!)

Step Four: To make the fabric puffy, pucker, or tufted looking you have to use whatever fabric behind the fabric that is going to be shown SMALLER or to the original size of the back. Make sense? Prob not because I cant really explain it. Just look at the pictures or just study your piece.

Step Five: Sew the two together. Heres my trick. Use different thread for this it doesn't matter which kind but get it close to the color or main color of the fabric. Im just saying this because I was using black thread but it popped out and didn't look good. Also when sewing them together, sew the upholstery fabric up. I know it sounds funny because we were all taught to sew inside-out. But trust me on this its easier to see where you're sewing. Another thing, when sewing pin and fold everything nicely. You don't want the fabric under being folded funny and sewing over it...... it's not fun sewing twice.

Step Six: STUFF! When I was stuffing I just stuffed from top to bottom. You will eventually take some of the stuffing out at either end but that is for you to figure out. Also I just stuffed the three middle pockets because it was easier to hold the batting. I use about 6lbs. of stuffing. Yeah...crazy. Just find any that you like cheap and BAM your good to go.

(WARNING! Before attaching this make sure you have all your pieces together! I made a huge mistake of forgetting to put on the extending part of the back that goes at the bottom but I spent way to much time figuring out how to attach the top that I didn't even want to take it apart and do it all over again. So this is my warning to you so you don't have this horrible mistake on your hands. I'll show you later when the picture is up.)


Step Seven: STAPLING! And this was HARD. Only for me because the top and batting coming out and I was trying to make it all even and yeah it was a weird and crazy task to do.

Step Eight: The Sides. So for this I stapled down the white fabric that was behind the upholstery fabric so that it didn't move around. Then I got to stuffing. After I figured that I had the right amount of stuffing I tacked down the fabric. And their it a curve at the top so I had to fold down the fabric PERFECTLY so I wouldnt have to keep redoing it. (I redid it like 5 times *UG!*) REPEAT TO OTHER SIDE.

Step Nine: bottom. This is where I was talking about the missing piece I didn't put on. Good thing there was something for me to attach the fabric to though. But I also have a gap between the deck (bottom of chair) to the back. I'm hoping the cushion will cover that up. *praying*

And there you have it! YAY!

Im sorry this was so lengthy but I had a lot of information for this part of the chair. Also I wanted to add that after I'm done with this chair I'm going to write a post on all my mistakes. I'll point them out as i go along as always but I'm going to put them all in one post as well. Anything else? Okay. Comment!