Vintage/ old budget finds

Hi!

Saturday I gave a CrazyQuilt lesson at the LQS, and it was a success, 2 of the girls are now hooked, and the the others liked it too. I was planning to take some pics, but when I got the camera out I had no batteries left :-((

W are re-doing our living room. We now have a sofa there that I have had for a long time. I had it when I was living in a small apartment and it was used as a pullout bed as well. My DH and I had been looking for a nice sofa for a while, but couldn't really agree on one, but now we found one. It is a beige one, with big pillows in a tweed kind of woven fabric.

I am now planning to redo the whole living room at once, and to do this on a budget, at bit like how I did my sewing room make-over. I found some great things for a bargain. I found this fabric. The light blue is going to be our curtains. I liked it a while ago when I saw it, and thought I would buy it someday. So I went back to the store to buy it and found out that the fabric was not 1.40 m wide for 19 euros but 2.80 m wide. It was folded in half on these big roles. So that meant I could buy half of the yardage I thought I would need...*s*. And the other fabric had a little error somewhere. We saw it when we were measuring it, so I got that 50% off, and I didn't have to use that part..

Last Friday I found this old footstool that I redid in a very modern fabric in blue and yellow. (the pic looks more gold but that is because I used a flash.

The Old footstool:

The footstool is hollow and has a tray inside as well:

This is how it looks now:

We also found this old cabinet. It will fit our TV on the top...our DVD and video player and our stereo inside, plus all our videos and DVD movies. So we will be getting rid of a lot of clutter...*s* I will sandpaper it down so you will see the wood color below the white paint. If that doesn't work I will repaint it in some color.

I also started working on Lucy's star quilt. It looks great, but is a bit difficult with the Y-seams.

So now you know what is going on in my house..total chaos, in hopes to getting a new living room done soon!

Barbara