Football Chair

Usually every year, I try to make at least one gift for the boys.  I love the old fashioned Christmas feel of making gifts instead of buying feels.    This year, I decided to recover an old chair that I bought for $5 some years back.  I went with a football theme to go in the new gameroom. 

Here are a few of the ugly before pictures of the chair.  Despite it's dingy brown fabric, it has some really good bones and tough springs...I have a few scars from trying to redo the springs. 

My little helper!  Good thing he can't talk clearly yet, so the chair was able to be kept a secret until Christmas morning. 

I found a sheet set at a local thrift store for $4.50.  It was a vintage NFL logo sheet set.  Perfect for what I had in mind!  I took the fitted sheet and cut it up to cover the base of the chair.  It was a simple upholstery job where I just folded the fabric in place and stapled gunned it down.  On the top portion of the chair, I used a pillow case cut up.  I love it because it has a full figure of a football player in action.  This required a little bit of sewing on the sides to give it a neat appearance, but again, it was very simple stitching. 

Tonight during one of our nightly Foosball matches, Ryan said, "Mom, that chair you made is really nice.  I sit in it every afternoon after school."  Awww, that means the world to me.  Sweet boy.

I'll have to post pictures of the gameroom soon.  We've gotten a ton of enjoyment out of it already!

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