We took some popcorn and lemonade and went to see fireworks last night.
I've been progressing with the old-lady-style crochet, but not so far as to want to practice holding the thread properly.
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I took a short barrel-style upholstered chair from the fifties that I patched up a while back, and stripped all of the upholstery off it. The most recent potty-trainee had frequently used it as a place to quietly go without immediate detection, and I am not in favor of unwashables in the home.
As usual, it was a messy and somewhat hazardous process, but very satisfying in its own way.
The chair turned out to have two sets of springs in the seat and cushion, which explained the chair's other popularity as a trampoline.
The looseness in the frame turned out to be from two bolts, easy to deal with. Beyond that, the structure is fine except for the beginnings of a crack along the top.
I am thinking of building the bare frame out a bit with wood, doing some shaping and sanding, and then finishing it simply with Danish oil (fast) or linseed oil (slower). For the seat, I am replacing the springy cushion with a washable pillow, and keeping the bottom springs. Some amount of new padding and cover will have to go over those.
I saved all of the tacks that I pulled out of the chair while stripping it down, which will be useful for other chair projects, especially since our main staple gun is currently nonfunctional in some non-obvious way.
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As a research project, I tried mixing acrylic paint with dryer lint, to see what I could do with it. I found that the lint, mostly cotton, absorbed a lot of the water from the paint, so it dried very quickly and was different to even mix through the lint. Kneading the two together (wearing rubber gloves) was unpleasantly like handling freshly-vomited cat hairballs, and the dried result is very much like painted hairball.
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