Facelift for an Old Friend

In celebration of the Chinese New Year and the Year of the Dragon, Tom and Maureen have been busy clearing out the old and welcoming the new.  In the case of this chair, it's more a matter of making new from old.  This was Maureen's sewing chair for many years.  It's now being re-purposed as a guest room chair.

Several years ago, we met a guy who was marbling leather hides in a 10ft X 10ft vat in a large storage unit in south Salem.  This was long before we had taken a marbling class and we were quite impressed.  Now that we know more about marbling, we are even more impressed with what he was doing.  We bought quite a few pieces in various colors, planning to use them in artist's books. 

Maureen has been in a marbling mood for the last couple of weeks and is preparing to marble some fabric for the Fiber Explorations qroup she is a member of.  In between prepping the fabric,  making marbling brushes, mixing the size (the solution the paints float on) and the paints, and making new paint rakes, she squeezed in re-covering the seat of this chair.  All in a week's marbling!