Its actually called the singer "confidence," and confidence it has certainly given me. Last fall I made five aprons for my moms and sisters and started to make a quilt with the leftovers. Ohh yeah and I made those awesome Christmas PJ's but I am by no means an experienced seamstress. In fact, I hadn't touched my sewing machine since I finished the PJ's (and we moved and what not) until last week.
One of the first neighbors we met was actually the daughter of the man who had lived across the street for more than 40years and had recently passed away. She was cleaning out the house and asked if we wanted any of the furniture... which we did. I am pretty sure most of it had been in the house for the full 40 somethig years that they lived there, but hey, Sean and I were coming from a 700 sq ft. apartment and had about 2000 extra square feet we needed to furnish so we snagged 3 chairs, and old sofa, some yard tools, and a brand new tempurpedic twin bed.
For the first few months the new furniture just sat in our ugly green carpeted formal living room and held boxes and other objects with no real home. But a few weeks ago we ripped up the green carpet and were pleased to find very nice hardwoods underneath. Thus, I was inspired to buy a slipcover for the sofa and would have bought one for the chair, but sadly I couldn't find one that fit.
So Sean suggested I just make one, and I did. Which is why I said my sewing machine is magic. Its not like it was really complicated, but somehow I was able to channel the title of my sewing machine and all the confidence I needed to whip up a slipcover for my chair... in under 3 hours no less. No pattern, no previous experience just a whole lot of inexpensive cotton and a little trial and error.
Chair Before:
Chair After:
