I'm very tired tonight and an early night is on the menu. All weekend I sewed new covers for a five-piece modular lounge suite I gave to Lauren about 8 months ago. I bought a new lounge to get out of re-covering it, but ended up doing it anyway. I had a 30-metre roll of material here for the job, so Lauren and Zeke came over for the weekend while I cut and sewed.
By last night I had finished all the cushions and bolster pillows, and tonight I have finished the first slip-cover for the base. I'd take a photo but my camera is having a "Lens Error", and because it's less than a year old it's back to the shope for it.
All weekend my website has been broken, but I had to have my priorities right, and I feel like I've really achieved something with the lounge. If I can manage to do one slip-cover each night, the whole thing will be finished by next weekend when I'll go back over to Wagga. I got up at 5:30 am, a miracle for me, to do something about the site, and managed to get it all working again by 7:30. (My normal wake-up time.)
This lounge is similar to the one I'm re-doing, but it has sides on the two ends, with corner cushions. Great triangular things that were hard to do the ends on. There was a fair amount of hand-sewing too because I decided to do without zippers this time. This is the third time I've re-covered the lounge in 14 years. Not a bad life-span for the lounge, and it looks like new again each time. The material is nice: black grey and gold squares and stripes. It'll look lovely in Lauren's back room and will be nice for when she has her baby in June.
I have less than a year now to give up smoking, I promised the kids I'd give up before I turn 50. The count-down has begun.