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Tuft Love
PhotoImage Got tufting on your mind? This cold snowy morning makes me want to stay home, stay warm and exercise my manual dexterity with a little button tufting. Tufting styles vary from the very...
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Diamond Tufting ‘Aint for Sissies
this diamond tufting image is a re-run, but I’m running the photo to illustrate a point. I’m putting it up here for all the DIY-ers who may get frustrated on their first upholstery attempts. Like...
View Article5 Minute Clinic: Button Tufting
I finally figured out how to succesfully load up my button tufting video, so take a look. This is the most basic kind of button tufting, no folds or diamonds involved. This video will show you how to...
View ArticleHow to Make Covered Buttons Like a Professional
This isn’t my first video, but let me tell you, this up-close and personal thing is hard to tackle. Unfortunately for me, upholstery almost has to be taught through seeing with your own eyes how things...
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DIY Upholstery Down Under
“Not more upholstery posts!!!”, you say. Yes Sir! After I saw a Pingback from a site called What Maddy Did Next, I was curious. (I sort of know what a pingback is, but not really.) Anyway, I...
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Pink and Gray are a Couple
Color trends in interior design come and go quicker than you can get new pillows made and repaint your dining room walls. Gray is still the most popular kid on neutral block. It’s been on my walls for...
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Upholstery Repair: Tufted Ottoman Top
Here’s an upholstery repair that may come in handy some day, especially if you have someone in your house (I’m not naming names) who inflicts unusual wear and tear on the furniture with his big feet....
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Celine’s DIY Upholstered Bedroom
Celine is a smart cookie. She wisely signed up for one of my pillow workshops so she could get her foot in the door for the Beginning Upholstery class. Once she got her little foot in that door, she...
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Sofa Rescue: Scavengering Fabric to Fix Covered Buttons
Our sofa upholstery is, oh, I’d say about ten years old. Long gone are the arm covers. About a year ago, I found a leftover scrap of sofa fabric so I made enough covered buttons to give the back...
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Online Upholstery Classes Coming Your Way
Our 3 Day Upholstery Bootcamp has sold out for the past four months. That tells me it’s a winner that you all need and want. What if I told you that you don’t have to travel to my fun studio to take...
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Beginning Upholstery: 3 Day Bootcamp and Wednesday Night Upholstery Club
2 and 3 Nobody likes to read blog posts or email newsletters that are constantly pushing products, right?! I agree. So, let’s reframe the goal of this post. Pretend that I’m like your mom reminding...
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