Upholstery 101 (week 11) The Finale!

Hello, and welcome back...in case you are new here...this is an on-going upholstery series. To start at the beginning, go here.

First, the chair


It's done! This is like skipping the meal, and going to dessert first...now here are my last steps

This is where I started


To finish the inside arms, I placed a strip of fabric, just like I did the top arm piece here


...using the cardboard strip again, make a fold on the left


...and bring down


Just like the lining done here, fold and staple under the arm


This is what it looks like. The other end will get covered with finished fabric


For the side, a light-weight piece of cardboard works great. I used yellow poster-board so that you could see it clearly....it doesn't matter...it won't show. Tack it in place. This keeps the batting in place.


...I added a layer of batting, stapling under the arm...


...then flipping it into place, and tacking it all around


For the back of the chair...and to "finish piping"....this works great for pillows too...cut one end bluntly. Open the seam on the piping


exposing the cording....leaving plenty of material, cut the cording to meet exactly with the blunt edge


Fold under the extra material...


...and wrap it around the blunt edge piece. This is the most professional way to finish piping on a pillow, cushion....whatever! In this case, staple it into place


I used a light weight piece of foam for the back...tack, tack


Keeping with my Mckenzie-Childs inspiration, I am using camel velvet for the back and sides. Like you have seen so many times, tack the top, bottom,


side to side...pulling at each point

Trim


For the sides, with right sides together, I put a few pins in at the top to hold the fabric in place


more cardboard stripping following the staple line (and covering all the top staples) that was made on the back piece


Staple all the way down, should look like stitches


Fold over, to reveal the finished back seam


Working top and bottom, pull and staple



Keep pressure on the fabric to work out any wrinkles


Trim...add whatever type fringe, gimp, or welting you desire...like I did in this post


Make sure to hide all the staples, and embellish where it is  needed


...and admire your results


Especially those cute brass(?) feet I didn't polish here




The end...Class is dismissed! Now I am onto my basement. What are you working on?


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