As well as my illustrative work, I have been teaching my self upholstery over the last few years. Although I haven't been able to do much of it recently because of my uni and work commitments, I hope to pick it back up in the summer when I finish, and hopefully i'll start selling some of my pieces!
Below are a few examples of the kind of things that I have been doing for other people.
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| Before I got my hands on it! The sofa was about 35 years old, and had spent much of that time sitting in a leaking conservatory, so it was in a pretty bad way. |
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| After I had a play - it looks a bit wrinkly because the whole thing is stuffed with duck down, so when you sit on it you sink into a little bit of heaven! :) |
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| This was the first sofa that I did, it was in good shape, but the owner didn't like the colour anymore. |
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| This is what I turned the red sofa into, it's far more fun now, and I made matching lamp shades to go with it. I was really pleased with the final outcome, especially as it was my first attempt. |
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| These were the most challenging bits that I have done so far, mostly because of the sheer size of the sofa, its hard to tell from the picture but it was massive! The owner also wanted me to make the covers detachable and a bit on the big side, as she owned dogs and a couple of men folk, so she wanted to be able to keep washing them without them becoming too small. |
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| Detail of the sofa, I really like the fabric it was covered in, there were lots of patches of various fabrics and all the piping was made using a variety of different fabrics, as I didn't want it all to be the same colour. |
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