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The Emporia => House Beautiful => Topic started by: Missie on January 04, 2022, 13:29:29 PM
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Ok, so following on from my comment in plans for 2022, I really want to get this chair covered. I really want velvet (which I may live to regret) and I want it funky. The main colour of the room is purple, but has accents of hot pink, turquoise and lime. Any ideas on where I could look for some velvet to match. I don't care about the pattern, just the colours need to match (I've seen some with skulls on that I quite like). If the worst comes to the worst, I will just do it in purple, but I really want it to be wild! Anyone seen anything on their internet travels?
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@Missie Immanuels have a few at the moment
Immanuels (https://www.immanuelfabrics.com/soft-furnishings?page=2)
not sure if they have what you want but they add them regularly and I have seen some gorgeous furnishing velvet on there.
BB
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Thank you @Bumblebuncher I shall go and investigate!
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Lots of velvet upholstery fabric here (https://www.yorkshirefabricshop.com/fabric-finder/upholstery-fabrics/velvet) and here (https://www.fabworks.co.uk/collections/all-furnishing-fabrics) at fabworks
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Thank you @sewmuchmore . More to investigate :D :D
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Following this as I'll be covering 2 armchairs once our new sofa arrives in 6 days. Funky velvet sounds great.
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Just Fabrics have some lovely patterned velvets:
https://www.justfabrics.co.uk/?search=velvet%20upholstery
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Thank you @Greybird I found them yesterday from another post of yours. I'm thinking of this one (https://www.justfabrics.co.uk/curtain-fabric-upholstery/black-exotic-velvet-fabric/). I just now need to work out how much I need to cover the chair.
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Ooh! Lovely choice. Depends on the chair of course, but I have a friend who used to work for interior designers. She told me that they allow an average of 5m for a chair and 10m for a 2 seater sofa. You would have to allow extra for pattern repeats. Just fabrics are very helpful and if you ring them they would probably be able to suggest how to work it out.
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@Missie thanks for doing my research for me :D I really like that. @Greybird thank you too - that means I'd need 10m. I'm not ready to order fabric until the new sofa arrives so I can make sure we get something that goes well.
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@Missie it is cheaper here (https://ellbeefabrics.com/shop/curtblindfabs/curtain-blind-velvets/tropical-botanical-design-printed-velvet-curtains-cushions-furnishings-in-black/) and no PP.
i can recommend the shop, i recently recovered my settee and chairs with velvet from here and service is great.
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Ooh, thank you @sewmuchmore :* Could I ask how much you needed for your chair, please. I know they are probs different styles but, just a rough gauge.
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@Missie The fabric i used was a plain silver velvet and ordered 20 metres for settee/chairs. My furniture is solid oak frame with loose cushions so not much upholstery just made 10 loose covers with enough left over to recover a pouffe. Because of the nap each cushion took approx 1 3/4 metres. It really depends on the style of your chair and how big the pattern repeat is. I measured each cushion and then plotted out on graph paper how i could get each piece from the width of the fabric in order to work out how much i needed. The last wing chair i recovered for someone took 7 metres.
Just Fabrics have a good article here (https://www.justfabrics.co.uk/advice/how-much-upholstery-fabric-do-i-need/) that give an approximate figure.
Plus if you are using piping don't forget to factor that in. I always cut on the straight grain for upholstery piping (saves a lot of fabric) and have never had any problems.
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Sounds like a really interesting project! Would love to see the final result
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Stof France have beautiful funky velvet upholstery fabric, Spoonflower as well. Not allowed to post links, sorry about not being more helpful.
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Thanks for respecting that rule @SimOneNL ... Im sure Missie can google those names for herself ....You'll soon be able to post links just join in a lil first!
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…You'll soon be able to post links just join in a lil first!
To have my post reported for including a relevant picture or have it deleted by admin without any notification again? No thanks.
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Im sorry you feel that way @SimOneNL ... but it is quite clearly stated in the Membership agreement
New members are not allowed to post an item for sale, or external links, until they have been members for 2 weeks and have at least 25 posts, except with admin approval. If you'd like to share a link before you meet these specifications, please ask. We love both of these things, but we don't want to be treated like a free newspaper, and we prefer to know you before we enter into any business arrangements. We will edit or delete posts that do not comply with this.
and as you hadnt asked any of the admin team about posting the links they were removed.
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Im sorry you feel that way @SimOneNL ... but it is quite clearly stated in the Membership agreement
New members are not allowed to post an item for sale, or external links, until they have been members for 2 weeks and have at least 25 posts, except with admin approval. If you'd like to share a link before you meet these specifications, please ask. We love both of these things, but we don't want to be treated like a free newspaper, and we prefer to know you before we enter into any business arrangements. We will edit or delete posts that do not comply with this.
and as you hadnt asked any of the admin team about posting the links they were removed.
I didn’t post links. I posted ONE relevant image in the thread about the Sex And The City sequela.
That got reported and censored.
Anothwr post of mine, without any links and pictures got removed without any notification.
When I messaged the relevant admin asking why, they got flippant.
However, after seeing the public lambasting Charley got, I decided that lurking here is probably best for me. I could be very helpful here calculating yardage, but with admin on my heel fiddling with eveything I say, I better disappear into lurkdom.
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Im sorry but i have no knowledge of any of those removals ... I removed three links from, obviously another, new member recently but have not removed a complete post or a picture.
Are you sure all of these were on this forum ?
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Are you sure all of these were on this forum ?
Yes, and I have the flippant answer from the admin to my private message asking why it was removed.
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Please forward that message to me SimoneNL as I would like to see it.
Thank you