The Chair

My Mom recently had an old chair reupholstered that belonged to my great grandmother. Now, I'm sure a lot of you are probably thinking...well whoop dee do MaryD what's so darn special about that? Well, what's so special about it is this, my Mom is my biggest fan and reupholstered the chair in a fabric that I designed many years ago when I was working as a textile designer. (I have had sooooo many careers it's not even funny...and I never know what I might get into next??) Anyway many years ago when I was working for this textile company I would bring home yards of unwanted fabric....you should see my basement....I gave some to my Mom. Here's what she had done with it....

This is not the first time she used fabric I designed to redo a chair. She also did this one a few years ago.....

Now before you say, okay that is pretty cool. I'll go on to say that years ago I would actually see fabrics I did on furniture in furniture stores. I also once saw a fab design I did on a chair on HGTV. My 15 min of fame! I remember how difficult that design was do figure out and make weave right on the loom...it took me a lot of time to do... so it was a nice cherry on my sundae to see it on hgtv! See Antonio Bellatore, it's meant to be, we are like 6 degrees of separation, I had a fabric design on HGTV and you are actually on HGTV, it's so like meant to be! hehehehe Call me!!