Hello, all!  I hope you had a great holiday weekend.  We just got back from visiting Jeff’s family in Raleigh, which is always a fun trip.  I had the chance to meet up with some readers for a day of flea-ing and antiquing and I’ll share all about that in another post. Today, I am continuing the new slipcover series.  You can see part one, the introduction and a tutorial on making custom piping, HERE.  This series is a remake of one I did a few years ago, but my equipment, filming & editing skills and sewing know-how have improved a lot since then, so it was time for an update. In this segment, I show how I cut and lay out the fabric for the slipcover.  I have found it’s helpful to do this all at the same time, so I don’t run out of fabric mid-project, which has

We’ve been chatting about sewing lately and I have something to confess.  Zippers terrified me for years.  Well, maybe not terrified, but I thought they were too complicated and I avoided and side-stepped them.  I just made envelope closures on the underside of cushions.  And they’re usually held together by safety pins. Yeah.  If you flip over the cushions of my pretty French bergere chairs in the living room? And I’m saying this in a whisper.  Maybe even just mouthing it… …safety pins.   The French wing chairs in the dining room? Yep. As I’ve said before, I’m not about perfection.  I’m about getting something done.  If a chair needing a zipper is going to prevent me from getting something done, then I’ll figure out another way. I did face my fear of zippers a few years ago and they were surprisingly simple.  Almost to the point of embarrassment. It’s sort of like