The Chair

I have been struggling with this stupid chair for over a year and a half. I've had it since mid 2005. I bought it on eBay with a vanity when I was 'pre-decorating' my new room. Unfortunately, I don't have a pic of the original. But it was in need of re-upholstering from the start. Then...my daughter sat on it and the webbing disintegrated. She's not a super big girl, the webbing was just that old!                 
                                  
I started with figuring out how to re-do the webbing. Yeah. Not my strong suit. But I forged ahead. I cut my fabric. Padded the hole (now with make-shift webbing). Attached the fabric. It wasn't big enough to cover all the previous 'brad holes'. So I got some ribbon to match my fabric. Duh. ROUND HOLE. I was not going to miter the darn ribbon!  

This was my SECOND result...notice the 'brad holes'???
Now, how to cover those...

I headed to JoAnn's to select something else. The associate was not very helpful, pretty much telling me I needed to totally re-do the whole chair! Not. So I bought more fabric for a do-over.

I took the webbing off and re-examined my options. After finding a round piece of wood at Goodwill, I thought: "I'll just nail that onto the underside and pad it!". The piece wouldn't fit. I tried sanding it down. Fail. I ended up buying a piece of MDF and using my sawsall. Well...my son actually used it :)   I secured it to the underside of the hole. 

Now I was back to the edging of the fabric. Ugh. Back to JoAnn's. More fabric. Back to the drawing board.

Today's project: FINISHING THE CHAIR! (wish me luck)