The chair's last trip to college

I am pleased with the end result. Took the chair in for the last time to finish off the underneath of the chair.
I laid "her" on her back and stapled on the black fabric to the underneath of the chair. Just before I finished the tagging I wrote my name and date and my business name on the inside of the chair. I like to think that it's going to be uncovered by somebody far into the future, once the chair needs a new facelift.

The last day for this chair at college. She looks lovely! I am very pleased with the end result.
I'll post more on the beginnings of this chair soon.

I now also know that the side rails is not the right terminology either. The side rails are called scrolls. So scrolls it is now!

Side rails

The front lapels are not called that, as expected. It is very hard to find information on the anatomy of chairs. I only found one website which discribes the front of the arms as Side rail. So I think I will go along with that one, until I find out it's definite name.

I have now finished both the Side rails. I needed to adjust the front rail a little by tightening it underneath with some more tags.
The Front rail is the front lower part of the chair, in between the Side rails. Getting used to those names now.

Looking almost finished now. I have tagged the side and front rail to the underneath of the chair.

Front lapels.

I'm continuing on the front lapels. They are not called that, but I have to find out what each part of a chair is called, but for now the front facing part of the arm I will call it lapels. As on a jacket the front showing part.

 I had started with the right hand one, fixing the wadding to the chair with some dots of glue. Then pinned the top fabric roughly into place. Starting on the outer edge pinning it into it permanent place.  I made little snips in the material so it would lie flat once tucked under, following the contour of the top part of the arm. Pinned down the inner edge of the arm, starting at the top and working all the way down. Stood back and adjusted pins till it looked roughly right.
Next I started to sew the straight outer edge, starting at the bottom, working my way up. I stopped near the top and left the needle and thread just there.
I want both lapels to be the same in appearance so I stuck the wadding onto the arm of the left arm with some dots of glue and repeated the the process.
I am now at the same hight with the sewing as the right one and compared the look. The lower edge across needs to be the same across. Both measuring 10 cm! Nice! By standing back and looking at the chair lapels I can make the shape of the lapels identical, I hope.

Here the right hand lapel is pinned into place and the wadding on the left hand one is glued on.

Here you can see the small stitches, sewing the two parts together.

my first post

I like my chair.

Do you like it too?