Reupholstering a Tiny Stool for Me Me Me

I am finally finishing up my study.

I got the two fabrics I had ordered for my desk chair and little footstool.

Today, I am just going to show off my leetle stool.

I know, I know.....

I still need to finish showing my bedroom, but this is the decorating version of a cliff hanger......

Is your adrenaline racing?????

When we last left off my study.....

my little stool looked like this.....

So, I hauled it up to my sewing workroom.

It was very heavy!!!!!

 My plan was to strip it down to the frame and rework all the interior stuffing and stuff.

Then I thought....

"Betsy, what are you.....NUTS?????"

So, I decided to just build on what was already there.

The middle of the upholstery was sort of sway back.....

Concave.....

The opposite of my abdomen.....

 So, I cut a piece of batting to fill it in.....

 Then, cut another piece the size of the top of the stool.....

And then used spray adhesive to glue the two pieces of fill together.....

 Then I cut a piece of this wonderful blue ticking 

that is from Michael S Smith's fabric line: Jasper.

 And starting from the middle of each side, stapled it working from the middle out to the corners, pulling it smooth as I went.

 True to form.....

I forgot to take a picture at this point!!!!!

Welllll.....

Anyway.....

To continue.....

So, after I attached the fabric with staples, I trimmed the excess with a razor blade.

Now it should be mentioned, that this it the only use I get out of razor blades.

Doing DIY stuff.

'Cuz I certainly don't waste any of this effort on ME!!!!!

Then I made a tape trim out of the striped fabric, by cutting a long piece and folding it over, and ironing it into a nice sharp fold.

 This is the back of it, I wanted you to see that it doesn't need to be perfect.....

 Then I used a decorative nail head tack, to attach the tape to the bottom edge of the fabric....

 I tucked the fabric in on itself inside the fold, and made a small overlap to end the tape trim.

Here she is in all her redressed glory!!!!!

 And here she is in her home.....

 Here's another view.....

So, 

that's if for today, 

Latah, Gatah

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