Jenny's Reupholstering Another Chair

Take a look at the chair to the right of the couch- not the bright green one at the front of the picture, but the one with its back to us.

This was an old green corduroy chair from The Rattery.  The green was a bit darker than it shows in the picture- kind of avocado.  That black stuff hanging to the bottom is the bottom of the chair.   The springs apparently had a raucous party at some point, because they were unsteady, pointed every which way, and made sitting in this chair an extremely awkward exercise. You know that hindu guru exercise where the guru lies on a bed of nails? That same guru would have sought chiropractic care after fifteen minutes of sitting in this chair.

Here are the offending springs:

Jenny says the bottom had fallen out of the chair, so the springs really had no support.  She's retied them to a more stable surface.

She carefully cut off all the green corduroy, and pulled out the stuffing, which is mostly this nasty looking stuff that looks like black dog hair.  She says it's not hair, though. I have no idea what it is.

Here's the bones of the chair- you can see it has a lovely bone structure.  The brown stuff is burlap.

She'll be covering it with some upholstery fabric I picked up on sale at JoAnne's.  I went in and looked over the upholstery fabric and about fainted in the aisle.  Sixty dollars, seventy dollars- one sample I liked was 90 dollars.  I did find a couple that were 20 dollars a yard, but I really didn't like them.  We were on our way out of the store when Jenny spotted the clearance aisle and found the green paisley fabric you see in the top picture, with the springs.
It was six dollars a yard.