Show How 0 w to Slip-Cover Slip Your Old Rocker By RUTH WYETH SPEARS O ONE NE day there came a letter with a rough sketch of the old rocker at the upper right The Thelast Thelast Thelast last line of the letter said I will remove the rockers if you say so Mrs Spears but I would like t to keep them Well why not There is nothing smarter now than things Victorian Old oil lamps with flowered globes are being wired for electricity so why not redesign this rocker along simple saw OFF OFFENDS ENDS w 1 i SEW PAD AD WITH AN OLD OLO BOARDS t 1 QUILT orTO OR ADDED COTTON TO MANE MAKE BATTING EDGES ASTED TO EVEN MUSLIN rJ ac lines Cover it with plain rep inI in ina I a nice shade of blue perhaps andI and I give it a matching foot stool and anda a hem stitched linen chair set all tricked out in m tassels Here is the result of that idea and the diagram shows all the steps that led up to it Almost any old chair may be transformed with a slip cover if a little work is done first to build out or to saw off projections Padding is also important and open spaces under underarms underarms arms anns may be covered by stretching stretching stretch stretch- ing int the padding tightly and tacking tacking tacking tack tack- ing as shown here |