Where it all began

We've mentioned this before but the only reason we learned how to upholster furniture was so we could put quilts (vintage or made by mom) on them. While the majority of our furniture now is not upholstered with quilts we still put a fair amount of furniture to the side hoping to one day make or find a quilt that will look great on it. We've even committed (in our heads at least) to bringing twice the amount of quilted furniture to Swiss Days this year then we did last year. All of our quilted pieces sold out so fast in 2010 that we ended up feeling a bit bummed that several people didn't get to see how it all really started for us. We just completed our first quilted chair to put in the 2011 Swiss Days collection and are looking forward to finishing a few settees and a couple more quilted chairs before September!

Before

And Now...

The purple and blue batiks were quilted by my mother and we chose a coordinating velvet for the welting and back. This chair is quite a bit more vibrant than our last quilted wing back shown here but I really love the idea of using such a traditional batik fabric in very modern bright colors - I mean really, who said quilting was only for grandmothers anyway?

Linkin' up at SNS

-Andrea