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| jpbluesky |
Posted - Jan 28 2005 : 4:00:28 PM
Homesafehome may be about making your home safer, but it is also about enjoying the safety and coziness that only our homes can bring.
So when you all tell us about reading and having that cup of tea by the fire, I always want to picture you in a certain chair. Do you have one?
Mine is a club chair with an ottoman. So soft and near the fireplace. It is navy with a golden pattern in it. My second favorite is a black Windsor that I "pad" with a quilt hanging over it. It is straight and yet comfy for watching TV.
Tell us about yours!
jpbluesky
Love those big blue skies and wide open spaces. |
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| jpbluesky |
Posted - Nov 06 2005 : 3:49:39 PM
Susan - hilarious! A fave chair to shave your legs. Now, that is a favorite! |
| Susie Q |
Posted - Nov 05 2005 : 8:40:07 PM
I've got two chairs one is a seafoam green velour club chair that fits me. I'm 5'2" and in that chair my feet and reach the floor so I dont have the seat cushion pressing behind my knees. It's the one to cuddle up in. I just slip covered it in a rose chintz.
The other is and old wooden teachers chair. I used it for everything and have had it forever and a day. It gets moved from room to room - kitchen, back yard, porch, bathroom as I cook, sew, exercise, shave my legs, or as I do a hundred other things. If my back is bothering me I find I can sit in it the best. |
| lamarguerite farm |
Posted - Jul 20 2005 : 9:36:11 PM
My favorite chair is one that my husband bought for me on our anniversary four years ago. He decided to humor me and we went antiqueing together. I found a worn wicker rocker that was chippy and missing a few "threads". It has the original cotton/spring filled cushion and I keep it covered in fresh cottage floral looking fabrics.It sits on my front porch where the cats sleep when they think I'm not looking!! It reminds me of my husbands thoughtfullness every time I step onto my porch. It's a place to sit and take off your garden shoes after a long afternoon of weeding or caring for the animals. It often calls out to me to enjoy an iced tea and the peacefullness around me.
Missy
LaMarguerite Farm
-I relocated this post and someone told me I could delete the other, but wasn't able to find the icon to delete it.(sorry guys!) |
| lamarguerite farm |
Posted - Jul 20 2005 : 2:32:48 PM
Sorry about the new topic on one that was already started! I clicked on the wrong thing and didn't realise it until it was too late. I'm still trying to figure all of this out.
Blessings,
Missy
LaMarguerite Farm
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| Mumof3 |
Posted - Jul 20 2005 : 12:48:08 PM
I love all of the descriptions of favorite chairs! Mine is an old white metal hospital crib with a side removed. It sits on my back deck covered in an old quilt and backed with lots of plump pillows. Just the right spot for tucking in and reading a good book. It is also the favorite spot of anyone who comes to visit. They don't want to leave. |
| MeadowLark |
Posted - Jul 20 2005 : 11:51:51 AM
Helen, Liked your post! I am the exact opposite, I like a bed to stretch out in in the summer to do my reading! I have a ceiling fan above it and it makes it cool and pleasant. The humming of the fan is soothing too. Sometimes I have a glass of mineral water and some lemons nearby, or iced herbal tea. I use a mister spray of homemade linen water for sheets that I spray on my face too! The heat here in Kansas is a killer right now. Line dried white cotton sheets add to the coolness. 
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." Rumi, 13th century. http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/sb/sb101.html |
| bubblesnz |
Posted - Jul 20 2005 : 02:11:11 AM
Have to say my favourite chair, would be my bed :) Nothing beats curling up with a good book and a coffee there, especially now as we are in winter.
Have had a favorite top I wore, till it was just embarassing, but cant recall a chair ever having grabbed me this way.
A great oak, is just a little nut which held it's ground. |
| mollymae |
Posted - Jun 24 2005 : 9:09:26 PM
It's been some time apparently since anyone has posted in this subject, but I wanted to share about my favorite chair. I have it in my 3 little ones' room, in the corner, perfect to sit in and read bedtime stories (right now it's the Lemony Snicket series, but I digress...) A couple of months ago I was on my way to Wallyworld and happened upon a yard sale (one of the first of the season here) and I had to stop because I saw the most beautiful chair that just called out to me "take me home with you!". It's fairly small (perfect for me, since I'm 5'2"), it is around 80 years old and upholstered in what appears to be it's original beautiful faded rose fabric, light yellow and pink roses on a very pale blue background. It's so comfortable and perfect, and I knew as soon as I saw it that it belonged to ME 
Cead Mile Failte,
Molly
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." --Henry David Thoreau
**When life throws scraps your way ~ Make a Quilt!**
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| jpbluesky |
Posted - Feb 27 2005 : 12:33:16 PM
Hi guys, I am still weighing my abilities in attempting to re-cane my historic rocking chair myself. I have looked and looked at it, and I saw the caning kit online for 15.00 (thank you, Eileen).
Now I can usually figure things out pretty good, but I feel if I tried to do this chair back myself, it would be all too obvious it was my first try! I think I will save my money and have it done right, then try my hand on caning something that does not matter if it looks perfect or not! Your input has been very helpful, guys! It still sounds like something fun to learn. (I have never made baskets, either).
jpbluesky |
| bramble |
Posted - Feb 19 2005 : 2:51:25 PM
Eileen--- The site is www.caneandreed.com. The site is brief but informative and the service has always been great. I even called for help once in the middle of a chair and someone talked me through my dilemna! The basketry supplies have been good quality also. Hope this is another source for you!
with a happy heart |
| Eileen |
Posted - Feb 18 2005 : 1:41:36 PM
Bramble ,Do they have a webb site? I am always on the look out for suppliers. Eileen
songbird; singing joy to the earth |
| bramble |
Posted - Feb 17 2005 : 5:28:44 PM
Jeannie-- another good source for supplies is Connecticut Cane and Reed. They have all sorts of supplies that I have had a hard time finding elsewhere. They even had a good selection of the twisted braid alot of 1920's and 30's wicker furniture was made with. I am sure between the two sources you will find what you need. We have an old swivel business chair that has been missing it's seat for too long. This discussion might spur me to do something about it!
with a happy heart |
| Eileen |
Posted - Feb 17 2005 : 2:40:02 PM
jpbluesky, I just logged on to that site and found that they have a chair recaning kit for $14.95 with instructions and a pattern. Just click on caning/upholstery and go to the handweave section. Might be just what you need as well as a little patience in learning this fine skill. We crafty people don't have too much trouble learning this type of thing I think.
songbird; singing joy to the earth |
| jpbluesky |
Posted - Feb 17 2005 : 2:24:57 PM
Thanks, Eileen. Now I feel better about the price she was asking, knowing that it is labor intensive and must be kept damp, etc. Many arts and crafts are habitually under-rated. I have found that with my needlework designs, too.
I will visit the site you mentioned.
jpbluesky
Love those big blue skies and wide open spaces. |
| Eileen |
Posted - Feb 17 2005 : 2:05:37 PM
Hi Jpbluesky, You can get recaning supplies on line through constantines.com. This is where I get all of my rush and cane for jobs here. $1.75 per hole is a fairly common charge. It is labor intensive but if you want to learn see if your library has the video on how to recane. My mother-in-law taught herself with a book and really enjoyed it. I charge $175.00 to re-rush a dining room chair if I do not have to do major repair on the chair itself, more if I have to fix the chair too. It takes about 8 to 10 hours to do it and you have to keep going until you are done once you start a project. You cannot let it dry out so that is why this is an expensive type of work. Caning is a little different but you still need to keep all the cane damp to work with and should not stop in the middle but not as hard to get going as rush work.It could become a very profitable hobby for you if you find it fun.
Eileen
songbird; singing joy to the earth |
| jpbluesky |
Posted - Feb 16 2005 : 2:54:11 PM
I found someone who will recane my antique sewing rocker but she charges $1.75 per hole to do it! I counted just the back of my rocker and it has 97 holes! So much for having the seat done too. (The seat is in good condition, but I want t hem both to match when it is done.)
I think I may try to teach myself how to do this. Has anyone on this site done recaning of old furniture? Do you know where to get supplies?
jpbluesky |
| jpbluesky |
Posted - Feb 08 2005 : 12:02:02 AM
Meadowlark, I do agree that loved pieces of furniture and clothing can be filled with personality. Sometimes in an antique shop certain pieces will have a feeling that seems to come from them. I recently bid on and won a little cane-seated sewing rocker at a silent auction in our church. It just spoke to me. I tracked down the person who donated it to the auction and learned it had come from an historic home here that is now a state-owned museum/reception house. It had belonged to the maiden aunt who was the last to live in the old southern home. Her great-nephew did not know what to do with it as he has lots of furniture that came from that home. I was so happy to know where the rocker had come from and pleased that it was historic. When you look at the rocker, it somehow lets you know it was loved. Now I need to have the back re-caned! :)
jpbluesky
Love those big blue skies and wide open spaces. |
| MeadowLark |
Posted - Feb 07 2005 : 2:30:56 PM
That is a beautiful memory JP...Do you think that sometimes objects like chairs or favorite coffee cups, or a well knitted sweater can take on a little of the personality of the person who uses them and loves them? It sounds like the chair you described that was your mother's favorite was special in that way.
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." Rumi, 13th century. |
| jpbluesky |
Posted - Feb 06 2005 : 7:00:29 PM
What great memories, girls!
I remember my mom's favorite chair. She had it positioned so I could see her through the crack in the door as I went to sleep. She always left a crack in my bedroom door. I could go to sleep knowing that mom was there in her chair and the world was right. I would sometimes sit on her lap in the afternoons, with my arm under her, and she would rock me. Even until I was eight! It brought me all the comfort and security a child could want. That chair had wooden arms, was a platform rocker, and was covered in many different fabrics through the years. She even took it to her room when she went into assisted living. Sadly, she became incontinent and it did not come away from the place where she spent her last years. But it certainly fulfilled it's role in our family.
jpbluesky
Love those big blue skies and wide open spaces. |
| MeadowLark |
Posted - Feb 06 2005 : 5:57:49 PM
I can relate to the chairs being an escape...As a kid mine was my parents huge old black painted wooden rocker. ( It probably wasn't that big...I was just small) It was my "spaceship". Don't ask me why, but I would imagine blasting off into space and traveling the galaxy in that rocker. I would rock so hard in it it would tip over at times. Ahhh childhood...
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." Rumi, 13th century. |
| cecelia |
Posted - Feb 06 2005 : 4:22:29 PM
Thinking more on this subject (in my favorite chair, of course!), I thought back to two chairs my parents had when my brother & I were young (before #2 brother came along). They were huge overstuffed '50's style chairs, one blue, one sort of a cranberry color. Those chairs were everything to us, as we had few toys and no TV. We could put them together to make a railroad car, in which we traveled to wherever our imaginations took us. Tipped on the arms, they became a cave or tent in which we became pioneers out west. Side by side we were in a train or plane (though we never were in the real thing, so I don't know where we got the idea - books probably).
They were simply chairs to other people, but to us they became a means of escape and imagination.
Cecelia
ce's farm
"Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery" Victor Hugo |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Feb 04 2005 : 12:28:40 PM
My favorite for the last few years has been a glider rocker with green cushions and the glider ottoman that goes with it. I did have a willow rocker years ago that was by alltime favorite. I put it out in the garden though, and after a few years of loving it outside the weather finally deteriorated it too much to sit it. When we moved here it just sort of fell apart. Bummer. I will get another some day I am sure. The mennonite rocker sounds wonderful too!!
Jenny in Utah
Bloom where you are planted! |
| marlyn |
Posted - Feb 03 2005 : 06:47:57 AM
pjbluesky
My rocker in a large seat at the front and narrower near the back, with straight spindles at the back. I have arm rests but not at all fancy. The arm rest is very sturdy, and wider then most rockers. Its a real arm rest. Good for a baby head rest once the fall asleep in your arms. When they were babies I would rock them to sleep and still have myself all curled up on the large seat.
I just can't picture myself without that rocker. Its been a big part of my life.
Simply Marlyn
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| jpbluesky |
Posted - Feb 03 2005 : 05:19:53 AM
Marlyn - How is your Mennonite rocking chair shaped? Is the back straight like a Shaker chair would be? Does it have a wide seat and deep? What color?
All of our favorite chairs are so different, but all sound so inviting as perfect places to read and quilt and hold babies. Love it!
We have my husband's grandmother's rocker. It has a slight Mission-style look to it, but a padded seat that I have had recovered. The wood on the arms is still the golden oak color while the rest of the rocker has darkened with the years. But where his grandma's arms rested, it kept the wood from getting the age patina. I love to look at it and picture her rocking there.
jpbluesky
Love those big blue skies and wide open spaces. |
| marlyn |
Posted - Feb 02 2005 : 3:28:47 PM
My favourite (Canadians spell favorite different!) chair is a Mennonite wooden rocking chair. I have had it since I was 18 years old, and was given to me by my brothers along with a braided mat to sit the chair on. I read rocking, have nursed all my children in that chair and find it a gem to quilt in, by the cookstove in the winter.
Marlyn |
