We picked up this chair from our local thrift store, the Guardian Angel not too long after we bought our first house. Despite it's crazy rust-colored velvet fabric, we fell in love with it. It was super comfy, rocked and swiveled. You can't get better than that, can you? As baby number one came along, we found ourselves in need of a decent rocking chair for the nursery. The only problem was that rust wasn't really in the nursery color scheme. So I sewed my first slipcover out of an adorable blue and white toile and presto we had ourselves a new, and super cute rocking chair!
Several years later, the nursery became a big boy room and we began creating a new pink nursery. This time I decided to finally get rid of the old rust fabric. As this was my first venture into re-upholstering, I decided that it would permanently be a slipcover chair which took some of the pressure off. I decided to use a plain muslin and some scrap canvas to re-upholster the chair. I also opted out of the button accents and made simple X dimples to maintain the body of the chair. I made a new slipcover, this one out of a gorgeous cream upholstery. A couple of years later, I decided to dye the cover a pastel green to better match the room. It turned out really well. One of these days I'll have to find or take a picture of the end result.
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