Fabrics!

I love to reupholster furniture and I've been looking for some good fabric wholesale websites.  You used to be able to get fabulous fabrics by the yard from pottery barn on sale for as little as $3 a yard, but they don't seem to go on sale all that often anymore.   Warehouse Fabrics has some great upholstery fabric for about $6.95 a yard.  But the thing I am most impressed with is their yardage estimator, which helps you know how much fabric you need for whatever you are upholstering.  Great find and I hope to have a project soon to try out their fabrics, but I already have two chairs to finish up in the garage.   

A couple upholstery tips, make sure you use a fabric that will be easy to piece together on a chair, stripes are really difficult, patterns are great if there is no real upside to the pattern otherwise pay close attention to the pieces you cut out.  Although I picked out a mostly white pattern above, I don't recommend using it for furniture because it is very difficult to keep clean and can fade and shows dust and dirt.  I think it would be great for a throw pillow though.  My favorite way to make a throw pillow is to buy two fabric napkins from pottery barn or world market and sew three sides together inside out, then reverse, stuff and hand sew the four side.  Then you have an easy and fantastic throw pillow that can bring life to any room!    

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