Thank you Miss. Mustard Seed!

For anyone who hasn't seen one of Miss. Mustard Seeds tutorials you've really been missing out.  She recently posted one on making vintage "grain sacks".  When I saw it I was thrilled.  So simple yet I hadn't thought of it before. 

I have these two vintage french cane back chairs I bought some time ago.

As you can see they came with some ugly "pleather" seats.  One had a small tear which turned into a huge rip so I stripped off the nail heads and used the icky "pleather" to make a pattern from a well washed drop cloth.  (some of my favorite fabric to work with!)

Then mixed up some blue and black acrylic until I had the right blue and painted on the stripes

I have an old set of vintage French monograms I bought on ebay so I made a photo copy of the two I wanted to use, then taped them to a window and used a graphite pencil to trace the back of the design.   Then laid that down on the fabric where I wanted it and rubbed it onto the fabric.  It was really faint but it gave me a layout to work with.  Then with a tiny liner brush I painted on the monograms.

Then I gave them a good spray with clear matte spray to make them hold up.

A few carpet tacks and we're in business!  I can't believe how good these look and how simple it was.  

Thank you Miss Mustard Seed!!