My redo of a Child's chair....

I have been wanting an old wood childs high chair for my kitchen forever.  If I found one, the price was either unreal, or the high chair was too big for the kitchen of the house we were currently living in (military and moving around a lot)...

 

I have the sweetest friend, Mandy of Bittersweet Folkart, who has a booth at a local antique shop...Anyway, found this chair and I fell in love....

 

OK, I should have taken a "before" picture, but I forgot....The chair had been repaired, but I decided to fill in the cracks some more---this is the picture with the wood filler--YEP, does look awful!!!  but nothing a little sanding and stain can not fix....

 

Sanded and half way done.  I filled in here and there with some black paint also....to look a little more antique:

 

       TA DA!! done and I love it, just letting it dry....

I grabbed one of my dollies and put her in the chair....LOVE IT!!!  and will work for now... I am making a larger doll soon to sit in the "chair of honor" in my kitchen....but for now this one will do. LOVING IT......

Thanks to Mandy...check her stuff out at...http://bittersweetfolkartprimitives.blogspot.com/

 

 

Going to get to work on a new wool piece.   Am using the last of an old Army Banket of my husbands to make a pillow with the wording "SIMPLIFY" on it...just a reminder to us all that life does not have to be so complicated......

 

Have a fantastic weekend my friends,

Margaret

 

FINISHED my table runner!

As I last "reported", I was working on my tablerunner from a pattern by Maggie Bonanomi.  I was talking about how I was going to finish up this piece--a little different.

Well, as we all know--sometimes it just doesn't work out like we imagined....My plan was to add a row on each end of the runner.  I was going to take wool colors from my "leaves" and put together a wool strip of squares" to tie everything together.  NOT! Really did not like the look..

Next idea--just choose one color and do a "wavy" strip of wool to add at the end.  NOT...did not like that look.

I think with Maggie's pattern--the beauty is in the "simplicity" of the look.  At least that was my opinion...adding any more actually took away from the look of the runner.

This black wool is on the thinner side.  I cut another piece for backing and put a little light interfacing between the two...sewed together and turned inside out.  NOT......I do not have a "walking foot" and the wool kept bunching up no matter what I did. 

NOW that was a pain in the neck to rip out.....but I did. 

IN the end I decided I would simply roll the wool to the back and handstitch.  So the edges are very neat and tidy....

Lesson learned----next runner I will use a coat weight wool for my runner and not have to worry about it feeling too "whimpy".....But no matter I do love it...

Took quick pictures and they are not great...but here is what it looks like....

Excuse all the light on the back of the picture.  After many days of lots of rain--the sun peaked out and thankfully flooded my kitchen windows with light...No complaints about that!!!  Just makes a funky picture :-)

 

I am working on 3 table risers....One for me for this table.  I want to have my wood trencher with my goose sitting in it, on this table as always.  I just change the "innerds" of the trencher with the season.  I will use the table riser so you can see the handwork of the runner and still use my wood trencher!!  Win-win!

Have a wonderfu day.....lot of new things to post next time...Enjoy your day and a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend..

Margaret