Madeline wrote us with not only a great Before & After to share, but a lovely story: I had done a lot of looking around online for inspiration for recovering old gliders and really didn't find as much as I'd hoped. Now that my old glider has a fresh new look I was hoping it could be some inspiration for someone else out there. I know it looks like just any old grandmother's glider but this one belonged to one of the coolest ladies who ever lived; it just had to be part my baby's room. My dad dropped it off last week and despite the awesomeness of my grandmother the country blue fabric wasn't cutting it.
My other grandmother was so kind to share with me her endless supply of great quilt scraps, they've been sitting around in a box waiting to be put to good use and finally they have a good home. So now with the help of both my grandmothers (and my mom who taught me how to sew) we have a newly recovered glider!
Brava! And so special that three special women in your life could play a part! Thanks Madeline! Folks, Madeline is a "a landscape designer by day and a jewelry-making aficionado by night" - intrigued? Find her at mimosa by m.e.
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Wow - way more fun!
Check out this glider make-over, too:
http://acireg.blogspot.com/2011/05/glider-makeover-complete.html
Beyond cool...congrats Madeline!
Love it!
What a nice way to incorporate and honor the grandmas! Awesome job.
Love it! Also, nice kelly green lamp thing. I think I might have to buy a can of kelly green Spray paint now.
gorgeous. i've been considering doing something similar, but the fact that you used your grandmother's scraps makes it all the more meaningful. just lovely.
Great idea - I like how it ties in with both sides of the family!
love that it's refreshed without a paint job!
*I'm not anti- paint, but I'm glad she saw the beauty in the original finish :)
hmmm. I think that chair got uglier, but maybe it's so bad it's good.
The finish is nice with solid colored fabric, but I think would like better painted white with the colorful scrab fabric. Either way, though, the family connection is so sweet :)
That is awesome! I love that you now have two great-grandmas and a grandma "helping" you nurse your child. :)
(And the bright colors are great, too--they would look right at home in my own little girl's room!)
Very cool, love the wood-- glad you DIDN'T paint it white as someone else suggested.
love it!
Love it! From what we see of the crib though..Holy Cow! Looks dangerous! Eeek!
e's my grandma glider. http://nurseknits.blogspot.com/2009/05/chair-part-two.html
These chairs are so comfortable, they really are worth updating.
Yikes! I love the thought behind the quilting,
it would have been better if the fabric had been
over dyed to take the curse off of it, this reminds me of some of the quilts my mom's friends used to give her in the 70's, technically great but made out of polyester. Also the application seems lumpy and inelegant.
Gasp! Love the transformation!
I agree with what someone else said-the chair did get uglier! The patchwork patterns are very random and look like you used Grandma's quilt to recover it.