Triumph over a chair....

[fajrdrako]

I'm tired but happy. Spent most of the evening sewing - same as I did last night.

A few weeks ago someone discarded a chair in the basement of my apartment building, in reasonably good shape (except for a small tear on the back), and it was surprisingly comfortable: a swivel chair on a rocket, nicely upholstered. But ugly. Undoubtedly ugly.

I lugged it to my apartment and decided to make it respectable by putting a slipcover on it, which is what I've been doing the last couple of days. Last time I did this I was a teenager and covered a chair for my mother - and she kept it like that for years. I still have the leftover material. The basic slip cover is light beige - on old bed sheet - and I fastened a nice Egyptian pillow to the top of the back, for comfort, and a skirt at the bottom of a nice matching pattern: not quite hieroglyphics, but squiggles that have the right sort of look.

It isn't a brilliant job, but it's mine. Sort of tacked together.... But now it's together, even if a lot of it's jsut abasted, I can do the detailed sewing at my leisure.

While working on the chair this evening, I watched "Firefly" on the Space channel (the episode was "Bushwacked") and "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers". LOTR is wonderful stuff to watch while sewing. I love so many of those characters.

The same could be said of Firefly, of course.

Comments

[justblue0162.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

I am ridiculously jealous of your chair and the fact that you can watch Firefly on actual TV.

I live for December 9th.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes. Watching Firefly again is a treat. I hope they rerun all the episodes, too.

[star-maple.livejournal.com]

Woah, woah, woah... Firefly is on Space? As in the Canadian TV channel Space? What time? When? How have I missed this?

Time to learn how to set the VCR...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes, Firefly is on Space at 9 p.m. on Mondays. A joy and a delight, as always.