bye bye 70's

i wasn't even out of diapers in the 70's, yet a lot of my furniture comes from that era! i was pretty tired of our orange and brown wood trimmed couch, plus the material was really scratchy, so i went on a quest for new fabric to recover it. i went to fabricville and brought home some samples to test their "dog-fastness"...whether they 1) match the color of the dog and 2)dog hair comes off easily (tested by rubbing the sample on the dog and shaking). i thought i had found the perfect material until i got back to the store and there was only 5 metres of it! i bought it anyways (the 70's couch has 2 offspring - an armchair and a loveseat - which also need recovering), i mean it was only $3.75/m, and it's soft like a teddy bear, I couldn't pass it up! i found another roll of not-quite-as-soft material, also in dog color, and bought it up at $5.00/m. after 3 weekends of broken needles, swearing and wormy looking frayed bits all over my house, here is the result!


ugh...check it out before!


stay tuned for the armchair in teddy-bear-soft-dog-coloured material!