Sheilz

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

Quilt Novice

Sorry no I'm of no help. But your idea is awesome! Please take pictures and let us know how it went. Good luck!

dunster

Saw this one yesterday at NW Quilting Expo in Portland. Do you think anyone will be allowed to sit on it?

AZ Jane

I've seen several on pinterest. http://www.pinterest.com/search/pins...ilted%20chairs

barny

Dunster, if that was mine, I would throw them out of the house if I had done that beautiful work.LOL

Phyllis nm

I chain stitched embroidered heavy upholstery velvet [with batting] for a bench and massage table years ago.
Once stitched it was easy to apply.

Sheilz

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?

yel

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

Sheilz

Thank you. That makes sense. What thread would I use? I'm not particularly knowledgable about the different threads.

Butterfli19

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