Quilting a new cover to re-upholster a chair with?
09-22-2013, 12:11 PM
#1
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
Posts: 635
Quilting a new cover to re-upholster a chair with?
Hi there. This weekend I attended an upholstery course and completed one of two chairs I intend doing. I bought regular upholstery fabric for the one this weekend but have got a notion to quilt fabrics into a design to re-upholster the other one. Has anyone ever done this and if so have you any tips to give me. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
09-22-2013, 01:48 PM
#4
Super Member
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 2,876
09-22-2013, 02:29 PM
#7
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
Posts: 635
Some of those chairs are simply nuts, beautiful but nuts! I'd love to do something like that. Would quilt weight cotton, batted and backed be of sufficient strength or hard wearing enough for a dining room chair albeit one that isn't subject to heavy use, or should I invest in some heavier fabrics such as velvet? How easy or difficult is heavy weight velvet to do patchwork with?
09-22-2013, 05:37 PM
#8
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: 1000 miles from nowwhere
Posts: 671
only advise i have is to french seem the seems ..............some call it topstitching ........i use the heavy fabric for bags /totes sew a bunch of different fabrics together and i sew a seem then lay it flat and sew the seem again ..[kinds like quilting next to the ditch for lack of a better description] that makes the seems lay flat and double stitched ain't a bad thing
09-23-2013, 12:57 AM
#9
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
Posts: 635
only advise i have is to french seem the seems ..............some call it topstitching ........i use the heavy fabric for bags /totes sew a bunch of different fabrics together and i sew a seem then lay it flat and sew the seem again ..[kinds like quilting next to the ditch for lack of a better description] that makes the seems lay flat and double stitched ain't a bad thing
09-23-2013, 02:33 AM
#10
Super Member
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Seacoast New Hampshire
Posts: 1,181
That's incredible in a crazy way. In a now closed quilt shop someone had reupholstered a similar type chair in a 4-patch design, using bright flowered fabric. It was the happiest chair I had ever seen. There was a "not for sale" sign on it and whenever I went into that store someone was oogling over it. I was always hoping for a raffle but no such luck.
Sheilz - this may help a teensy bit:
http://nightingalequilts.blogspot.co...d-var-f-d.html
Sheilz - this may help a teensy bit:
http://nightingalequilts.blogspot.co...d-var-f-d.html
Last edited by Butterfli19; 09-23-2013 at 02:46 AM. Reason: added the link
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
gale
Mission: Organization
30
11-03-2014 01:43 AM
craftybear
Links and Resources
4
09-02-2011 01:30 AM
