Laminate Fun!

I re-covered an old chair this week.

You know this chair, it was in your kitchen in the 1970's!

After a move this summer to a smaller home, it has taken a lot of sorting and tossing and yard sales and organizing and re-organizing and touching each possession and asking the questions:  Do I like it, want it, need it, use it or have room for it?  It has been a very freeing process.  But I just couldn't toss this sweet little chair.  Plus, I have some tools...

featuring Halle Rose laminated cotton by Lila Tueller for Riley Blake Designs

Girls with tools, gettin' 'er done.  My husband is a carpenter, but I can never find a hammer or screwdriver when I need one!  So I have my own cute little flowered hammer with the screwdriver hidden in side the handle.  That's so he won't "borrow" it.  I know he wants to... ;)

I used a little leftover laminate from my summer Snippets classes to recover the chair.  Worked like a charm!  Can you tell I love my upholstery tacker, too?  I think it will hold for at least another 20 years.

Love.

Have you sewn with laminate?  This Riley Blake Designs product is regular cotton fabric with a thin vinyl coating.  Not stiff or hard to sew like oilcloth or regular vinyl or naugahyde.  And there is no fraying, which I love.  No need to finish the edges because they're sealed with the laminate.  And most designer laminate is a coordinate to regular cotton fabrics, which fact I also love.

Looks like these gals from my latest Snippets class had fun sewing with it too.

Snippets Laminated bag and Sewing Accessories - Free Tutorials HERE

Check back tomorrow for a new laminate project/gift idea, along with my Top 5 Tips for Sewing with Laminates!  (Don't fear the fabric!)