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If you need any proof that my sisters and I think alike - even while miles away - just keep reading. 

I was gifted this beautiful rocking chair - because the giver had seen some of the work I've done and thought I could do a "marvelous" job with it. 
 

 
Now, I'll admit right now that sister #3 pays much better attention to detail to me & I was intimidated by this chair!  Great bones, but it needed some lovin. 



 Luckily the wood and frame were in pretty good shape and I could focus on simply reupholstering it.  That's when I call my resident This Old House expert....sister #3.  She pointed me to products and a great site for material.  And then she answered every.single.frantic.text I sent while working on this chair.  But my first question was "what fabric?!"  I switched between what I knew would be "historically accurate" (= leather) and wanting to do a bold, modern fabric (since when did I become a bold, modern girl?!).  This is what I chose:
Does it look familiar?  It might because it was also used on this chair which was redone by sister #3...who lives 7 hours away from me!  Yup, we might be related ;-)



So this chair took up 25% of my living room for MONTHS (I bought the fabric in April, 2 months AFTER I got the chair!) - I'm happy to present the finished product!

Whew!  Now on to the next project (I have room again to work on them as this beauty moved to my bedroom).
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