After my grandmother passed away, my mom brought me a glider from my grandmother’s house. I wish I could say that it is an antique, but it’s not. But I didn’t have a glider, and so it has been a nice addition to the furniture in our house. The only bad part about it was that it was ugly! :) And I had lived with the ugliness long enough! The initial plan was for me to buy replacement cushions. But those are expensive! I can buy a brand new rocker for the price of the cushions. When I told Mom, she said that she could recover them with no problems. My mom is so talented and creative that I wasn’t worried at all about how it would turn out.
My mom came 2 weekends ago to help with this and several other projects. We went to Hobby Lobby and found some upholstery fabric that would go great in Levi’s nursery. I wanted to get something that would look great in his room, but then when he got bigger, I could bring the glider in the living room and it would go great too. Well, I think we picked a great fabric!
Anyways, my mom did the majority of the work, but here are some of the “how we did it” pictures.
Lay your cushions over your fabric and cut around making a pattern
Turn them inside out and do a lot of sewing and other fancy things that I have no idea what she did! :) (If you really want to know how to do this, let me know and I’ll ask my mom!)
Cut out a piece and staple to your ottoman.
Before and After! What a difference!
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