{"id":19578,"date":"2013-09-18T06:19:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T11:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=19578"},"modified":"2013-09-18T07:10:10","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T12:10:10","slug":"rocking-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=19578","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Rocking&#8221; Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rockingchair-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Rocking Chair\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>What a great idea for recycling old band T-shirts.  ElderGoth Tina commissioned <a href=\"http:\/\/annodominihome.blogspot.com.au\/2013\/08\/rocking-chair.html\">Anno Domini<\/a> to upholster a chair using her collection of vintage band T-shirts.  I&#8217;ve heard of turning beloved T-shirts into quilts or throw pillows, but the upholstery idea is new.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how much the professional job cost&#8211;my guess is &#8220;lots&#8221;&#8211;but it&#8217;d be possible to DIY without enormous difficulty.  Chairs with stained or torn fabric are cheap at thrift stores, so this project involves more time than money.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of tutorials for reupholstering chairs; a couple are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allthingsthrifty.com\/2009\/11\/reupholstering-101-how-to-reupholster.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhg.com\/decorating\/do-it-yourself\/fabric-paper-projects\/how-to-reupholster-a-chair\/\">here<\/a>, and you can google up plenty of others.  If re-covering a whole chair seems a little too daunting, you could do just the padded seats of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familyhandyman.com\/woodworking\/furniture-repair\/how-to-reupholster-a-chair\/view-all\">dining chairs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll want to make careful measurements to decide how best to place the shirt elements in order to show them off to advantage.  When cutting the T-shirts make sure to leave enough space around each design for a hem.  Since the jersey-type fabric of most shirts is both stretchy and thin, it might be a good idea to anchor the pieces to a heavier-duty fabric intended for upholstery; your local fabric store can suggest good candidates.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great way to both show off T-shirts that would otherwise languish in a drawer and add an interesting accent to a room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a great idea for recycling old band T-shirts. ElderGoth Tina commissioned Anno Domini to upholster a chair using her collection of vintage band T-shirts. I&#8217;ve heard of turning beloved T-shirts into quilts or throw pillows, but the upholstery idea is new. I don&#8217;t know how much the professional job cost&#8211;my guess is &#8220;lots&#8221;&#8211;but it&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19578"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19910,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19578\/revisions\/19910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}