chair recovery

As summer commenced this year, so did garage saling season. I love garage saling- the thrill of searching for a treasure, a steal of a deal amongst someone else's throw aways. For many a Friday mornings this past summer I would meet up with a couple of good friends at Starbucks, grab coffee, plan our garage saling route, and be on our way. We'd be gone for a few hours and end up at the end with items we'd felt like we'd almost stolen. Some of my thrifty finds this summer included depression glassware plates, vintage pyrex bowls, roller blades for my husband and I, an antique dovetailed drawer dresser for $7.50, and this chair:
I almost passed it up, but considering my friend Holly talked the lady down from $5 to $4 it was pretty much a no brainer at that point. (P.S. - there were two identical chairs and Holly walked away the proud owner of the second one). We had big hopes of recovering our little beauties, convincing ourselves it would be a breeze. Well not exactly a breeze later (it might have taken us about 19 hours in all to tear off the old stuff, cut out the pieces, sew the piping, and figure out how to staple it all back together), we finally have lovely little chairs.