michele made me: upholstery

Friday, September 9, 2011

Drop-Dead Denim: Fern 'n Bird Chair Cushion

Did you know that it's September? Did you know that Michele Made Me and friends are doing only denim crafts this September? Did you know there's a lot of stuff you can do with denim? Did you?

'Cause there is.

It's the truth I tell you.

Just look at these recent posts: here, here, here and here.

And furthermore, my chair cushion is covered with denim. And there's a bird on it. As well as a fern. It's my Bern 'n Fird chair cushion. I mean Fern 'n Bird chair cushion.

Edited to Add: March 6, 2016 - The Fern 'n Bird Chair Cushion Tutorial and Template is now available on the Tutorial page!

And did you notice that I have a shop now. I'm an honest-to-goodness shop owner. See how cool and casual I am about it? Hello my name is Michele and I own a shop. True, there's only one thing in the shop but whatever. I have a shop. Insert a million smiley faces.

Check out my newly opened (literally seconds ago) shop HERE.

So the chair. What can I say about the chair?

Well... the chair used to be brown and green like so:

But I removed the cushion, sanded the brown down with all my might, and gave it several coats of not-quite-white paint mixed from some painty remnants I had kicking around. I decided to recover the cushion in these greyish-blue jeans for the Drop-Dead Denim event.

But I wanted to spiff the denim up a little so I decided to go the freezer-paper stenciling route and to that end, created the Fern'n Bird design. Then I re-covered the cushion in my newly pretty-fied jean and screwed the cushion back onto the chair. And lo and behold, a denim chair with fern 'n bird!

Swank, eh?

Now I have to make a matching one. I'm ever so pleased with the result! Ain't denim great?

Have you ever made anything from your old jeans? If so, what are you waiting for? Upload it to the Drop-Dead Denim Flickr Group so I can take a gander.