Triumph over a chair....

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.