I can't drive to Atlanta and shop at Forsyth Fabrics or Lewis Textiles for $16.99! And if I did, the least expensive I could purchase the fabric would be around $15/yard. These panels were 54" w x 95" long. This was a DEAL folks!
However, I always check out the end caps for clearance items and guess what I found? Give up? This bunched up packaged panel for only $7.56. Only $7.56? Really?
See where it says "online item"? I guess someone had ordered it online and returned to our local Target and since it wasn't packaged the same as the others, ended up on the clearance shelf.
Score!
I couldn't get out of there fast enough. I kept thinking someone was going to come over to me and tell me that the panel was mistakenly placed on the clearance shelf and the price marked was incorrect.
Once home, I opened the package and pressed the panel and thought about the best way to use it. Pillows for sure, then I remembered that I was going to use some antique chairs that I had and the chair pads had not been updated in about 20 or more years. They still had the hunter green & cream gingham check fabric that I added way back in the day when "the country" look was all the rage.
WAY BACK!
Mr. Fixit had to make a few repairs so they would be safe to sit in and while he did that, I started laying out the seats on top of the new fabric to measure for cutting. I added 3 inches all the way around and cut out enough for 4 seats.
Once all covers were cut, I started stapling and pulling. It's not difficult and it goes fairly quickly.
Sometimes I had to use my little pink hammer to get the staple all the way in.
To create a neat corner....I folded up the corner like so and stapled...
Then tightly pulled up the bottom portion of the corner and stapled.
Then pulled over the side part of the corner and stapled
Look at how they update these chairs...
Some of the left over panel was used to make a table runner for the table and I still have enough left over to cover some throw pillows.
All of this for under $8!
