Nerdia says …

Out with the Old…

With spring coming, a lot of those ‘we need to do…’ projects for the house are cropping back up again. So far, nothing major, just some redecorating going on.

Project 1: Re-doing the front/back door curtains
I forgot to take a ‘before shot’ of my previous curtains for the front and back door, but they were pretty nasty. I was using material from old curtains in the condo and had just trimmed them down to do the necessary covering. Last time I ever work with sheer fabric; it’s super slippery material and back then I had no patience to iron the hems first. My mom has been complaining about them since I put them up, and last week she was over again and, on cue, brought up their ugliness yet again, so I visited the fabric store, found some $2/m fabric, and voila! For a mere $6 dollars we’ve got much better looking entrances.

Project 2: Kitchen chair covers
My old chair covers I did a long time ago, and really didn’t know what I was doing back then. They too were a quick fix, so when you sat down your butt bones wouldn’t eventually end up grinding into the chair. I have become a better seamstress since then, at least I hope I have. I was visiting the fabric store while waiting for my husband to arrive from the subway, and saw this incredible fabric. I thought nothing of it then, until I got home and realized what I could do with them. So the next day, I head back to the store, and it was gone from the clearance section! We searched and searched, and luckily, we found 2.25m left in the clearance section but at $4/m. So for $12, I got our new kitchen chair covers with some material left to spare. My husband’s one request was that they don’t slip around on you anymore when you sit down, so instead of doing ribbon like before, I created velcro straps and sewed the non-slip material to the bottom of the cushion (you can’t see that part). But I think they look a lot better than before, and I had him test them for their immobility. Worked like a charm!

That’s about it for now. I think I’ll go back to sewing non-house related things!