There's a tumbochka, too

That little divanchyk settee thing is part of a set. There's a little (well really,  it's kind of big, heavy and awkward) low table on wheels with storage underneath, too. Since the storage is only accessible by lifting the very heavy wooden top,  it's empty- except for a set of dirty sheers belonging to the landlord. In any case,  this brilliant piece of Soviet craftsmanship was the same red and black checked pattern as that poor divanchyk/settee- Oooo- ugly. So I also took the curtain and sleeping bag liner leftovers to it and,  with the help of that fabulous staple gun, gave it a new outlook on life.
And no, as someone noted in the comments a couple posts back- There are no before pix. None. Zip. Zero. I guess I was just too excited to stop long enough to do that.
Ahem.
And there are 2 more covered pillows now, both inflatable and fairly unexciting... although both tie shut with darling little ribbons. And that plain white pillow top got a simple white hankie with a simple blue  embroidered peacock stitched to the top. Sometime,  somewhere I got a ton of hankies,  mostly pretty... and I don't use hankies. They're fun little pretty-me-ups. And there are no pix of these newly-altered pillows. :-)

Oh the pillows?

Well yes,  I've been working on those pillows. As sometimes happens,  our plans for today were canceled. Everyone's looking out for the army these days and today was some big something or other to raise funds for the army. So people did that instead of come to our place. So I spent a good part of the afternoon working on this pillow. It's simple, yes I know. It has piping,  though. Some I made this time. And,  uh, it took me awhile to find the right presser-foot for the sewing machine and then to find the right cording for the piping (Are you taking note, Charlene?! You're absolutely right, It's The Piping!!)

Plus there was a simple square feather pillow to do (it needed a new casing as well as a new cover). And then there was the fun little new pillow! For a long time,  there  have been  four little, basically useless, tiny roundish neck-type pillows floating around this room. Noone ever used them and,  like everything else,  they matched nothing. K latched onto the foam one when she saw what kind peril it was in; I nabbed the other three  and had a party! One was regular fiberfill batting; one was  stuffed with puffy poly fiber balls; the last was stuffed with what looks like the hulls from something like millet. I made a casing,  put it all inside,  mooshed it around to a pleasant consistency and sewed it shut... and then made the cover. There 

are two more to go. :-)   

Divan, day 2

After several more hours yesterday afternoon, this is the little divan-chick. There's some hand sewing left on the sides and the front. And then deciding how to finish that back. Two crocheted lace runners there for now.

Whadda Mess

It's been a long time.... so I'm just going to jump in and go and pretend I never missed a beat... starting now.
My room doubles as the living room... Or else the living room doubles as my room.  I get that mixed up sometimes.
So, there's a couch. Blue plaid. And a table. Brown. And a bed. Covered in bedding and (quite often) lots of my stuff. And a few chairs. Green fabric. Some miscellaneous cupboard-y shelve-y things.  Small.  White,  cream,  brown,  ummm red. And then there's the short little divan-chick. The sort of strange,  completely ugly,  somewhat ungainly, heavy-as-lead Soviet-era sort-of-loveseat. Whoa.  Ugly. Very. Upholstered in red and black, with a red velvet cover (No,  the reds don't match-Should they?) Earlier I ditched the ice-blue polyester (shiny- All I can say is people have different tastes, I guess.) throw cover that had been trying to hide the various reds underneath.
Someone came back from the second hand store with the news that all household linens were 50% off.  Earlier, Karen had wondered out loud if a person could buy used curtains and reupholster furniture. So off I went to SecondHandLand. For $7, I got a pile of drapes,  a blanket, a sleeping bag liner, a valance, a duvet cover, some curtain lining fabric. There were even 3 tassles and some piping in that bundle. Laundered and dried and ironed (some of) it. Then started ripping seams on the main pieces. Salvaged the tassles and piping. Did some measuring and some sewing.
Not done yet but bedtime snuck up on me. The pix show this afternoon and evening's progress. 
-There's the partially done beast with the various fabric scraps and pieces. And the tassles and piping.
-There's the shot that shows the old red upholstery.
-There's the stack of pillows that get done up to match. (The furniture around this place needs pillows to be comfortable. Plus,  I like pillows. A lot. Plus,  I'm having fun.)