I went into a local shop that makes wooden furniture, had a look around the warehouse/showroom and found so many lovely things. Enquiring about the price of some chairs I liked, I found that my estimates on price were about half of the label prices in store - ouch!
I asked what else they had to offer at a lower price and embarrassingly (at first) the manager was summoned from upstairs. He asked what I was looking for and offered me a set of chairs that had been used for display with a large discount. They were still very slightly more than I'd hoped to pay but keeping in mind the amount I saved when I bought the table, I haggled to include free delivery and handed over my debit card. New chairs to match the table - yay!!
I freegled my old table and chairs, which were collected at 4:30pm on Friday, and the new chairs were delivered at 5pm - it was so uncomplicated that felt like it was meant to be.
Over the weekend there has been a frenzy of knitting as I made the first seat cushion - freestlyling with no pattern, as usual!
It's the biggest thing I've knitted so far but my knitting has gotten much faster and the chunky wool is amazingly easy to work with.
Two viewings of Julie & Julia, Mastercrafts on the Iplayer and some lovely chat on twitter with Florence & the Machine in the background kept me company as I knitted my way through three balls of rainbow wool. I finished it on Sunday afternoon.
I'm really pleased with it, it's comfy and it's simple enough to throw in the washing machine if we have any kitchen accidents.
I have another three to knit, but now that there's a comfy chair for Cameron to sit in, I'm going take my time on the others.
6 comments:
I love them! What a fantastic idea!
You have the same taste as me I think, I am after a nice pine farmhouse table and spindle back chairs too!
The cushions work really well and add to the whole feel. Great job!
Thanks!
Aww how nice is that cushion! I'm so jealous, I joined a knitting group last year and got so frustrated at how bad I was, I slinked out of it; I've resigned myself to be a non knitter forever :(
Aww don't give up Catherine! I was terrible when I first tried knitting. I used to make the stitches so tight that my fingers blistered from knitting any more than 4 rows!
I taught myself a couple of years ago using a children's library book and using videos on youtube so I could visualise what didn't quite make sense in the book. I'm still learning but it does get easier. I'm going at my own pace - I only learnt to increase last week!
Love the chairs, plus you reminded me I must get set on learning to knit
Great chairs - these are definitely my favourite type of kitchen chair and well done for getting them at a near decent price. Your cushion cover is lovely - it will be really cosy when you've done the others too.
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