No more dirty, ugly carpet!!!

I pulled up to carpet to reveal the glued down backing stayed stuck to lino that may not look to shabby if I can get the glue and underlay off the floor. Tomorrow I plan to use boiling water and a scraper to get all the stuff off and then we'll decide if the floor looks good enough of if we do indeed need to put new flooring down.

We almost have chair cushions!

I did all of the machine work today, tomorrow I plan to put the covers on the other 3 cushions that are in the garage and then hand stitch them closed or insert a zipper, we'll see what I can find tomorrow - I don't want to spend $40 on zippers when chances are we won't have a need to take the covers off as we don't normally eat in the camper, we eat at the picnic tables. Here is a picture of how the cushions will look. They can be placed with the "wave" pointing upwards or downwards, until they're in the unit it's hard to tell which will look better.

Ignore the date, it was truly taken May 4th, 2010

bedding done, patterns made!

I finished the bedding this past weekend - it's all ready to be wrapped up, and I just made the pattern for the 4"x20"x40" cushions, I am getting ready to lay out the fabric and start cutting.

Old wrapping paper works great for making patterns that slide over fabric and don't tear as easily as tissue paper. And who can't feel cheery when working with a bunch of snowwman on a summer project?

patterns wer 29" x 49" with 4" squares cut from each corner.

Fabric has been cut and I have now used the pattern above to create the bottom of the cushions by cutting off one long flap and 2 short flaps.