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.
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!
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