DIY – Lemon Fabric Kitchen Valance and Table Runner

admin — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 23:16:17 +0000

I was wanting to add a little yellow accent to the kitchen and saw this nice tablecloth for 60% off at a local store. I decided to make a Kitchen Valance and a table runner from it.

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Starting with a tablecloth.

First I eyeballed the size I needed for a valance, and also for the middle of the table. Then I grabbed my scissors and stitchwitch and my iron. I cut the tablecloth into two pieces to start.

If you don’t know what Stitch Witch is, it looks like this and is a bonding material that bonds upon heat. It will replace my need for any sewing on this project. You can purchase it HERE on amazon.

Here you can see the stitch witch placed down on the fabric, and ready to put fabric over it and Iron.

Just follow the included instructions on the stitch witch and Iron it to bond the fabric together. My Iron was at number 7.

Here you can see it bonded the fabric.

I now have my Kitchen Valance done. I did the same process for the table runner.

Ta da! Here you can see both the table runner and valance hanging up.

Here is a closeup of the table runner.

Here is a closeup of the Valance.

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Ikea Henriksdal Green Dyed Chair covers – DIY

admin — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 22:51:36 +0000

The Ikea Henriksdal Chair covers are really easy to dye to get the color you want. I now have a set of red, black and decided to do a green set. Dying some white Ikea Henriksdal green was next on my list.

Getting started

You can pick up the plain white Ikea Henriksdal chair covers at Ikea, at this link HERE from amazon. Here are mine getting ready to be colored. The covers they are sitting on are my red covers I did earlier.

I prepped the area to keep the stain from getting on anything as I was going to do this indoors. I used some tarps to protect the area in the kitchen.

The Dye I used

I mixed these colors for the project. This time I used RIT Dye (in my last post when I did the Red Chair covers HERE I used dylon brand dye.)

The colors I chose for this batch of Ikea Henriksdal covers was:

BLUE – Rit Evening Blue dye
Yellow – Rit Lemon Yellow dye
Emerald – Rit Emerald dye
Green – Rit Kelly Green dye

I used all four bottles per tub, one of each color.

Protecting my hands was a priority so they didn’t turn green. I used these gloves for this project, you can grab them from amazon HERE.

Needing a way to hold the chair covers down in the ink as they wanted to float to the top, I used some kitchen pots.

One result of being still wet is they look a little darker, but they lightened up after drying.

Drying the covers for just a bit you can see they lightened up, After that I did a hang dry to finish drying them.

Finished the Ikea Henriksdal Green covers.

My new dyed Ikea Henriksdal green covers installed on the chairs 🙂

A closeup shot of the Ikea Heriksdal Green chair cover.

I like changing colors in the room as a fun way to make a quick impact, I really like this option of having sets of separate chair covers in separate colors to go with my mood. This is one of the reasons I like the Ikea Henriksdal chairs so much. In addition to being really versatile, the price is not that bad either. These green chairs ended up being exactly what I wanted for now.

If you want to see more pictures of the red covers, they are shown in this post here.

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