Willa Hartt LLC

🤓 K.Willa Hartt, mathematician, at your service.

💪 The first full reupholstery project I’ve tackled since I was injured back in May. I’ve been doing smaller furniture, and some sewing, as I build back my strength, but nothing as major as rounded-back-button-tufted-PLAID-armchairs, ya know?

⏳ It took twice as long as it normally would have, because of the start-stop nature of my recovery process, and because I was so darn out of practice after months of “rest”… I second guessed myself every step of the way!

🤗 I’m quite pleased, not only to be done with these GORGEOUS (if I do say so myself) armchairs, but also to be getting my hands on some furniture again. These were torn down back in June!

🧮 And, I mean, that pattern match, right? (It’s not an accident! It’s a lot of planning and math and careful construction.)

😍 Oh, how I love a good plaid.

🥳🤩💕🤪🧮🤯💪☺️🤓🏆❤️🙌

😒 I still hesitate to share photos like the second one in this post, because inevitably there will be some fool who pops off in my comments with a “did you know they make a cutting tool for that?” 🙄🙄🙄

🙃 No, I didn’t ask for the “advice” but, even if I had, -they- didn’t ask if there’s a reason I’m doing it this way… (and yes, of -COURSE- I know…)

🎯 Every single part of my craft is important to me, including the tiny details like the way a pattern lays out on the buttons. If I used a cutter tool to speed up the process, I would lose some of the precision that I count as necessary for a job well done.

✂️ (For those not in the biz, a cutter will slice through multiple layers of fabric at once, instead of individually cutting out circles. However, it’s pretty impossible to line patterns up exactly when layers are piled up like that.)

🤩 My way may not be faster, but as that’s not the point, nor my goal, I am quite happy with the results. I’d rather have quality over speed any day.

💃 I’m writing the rules, and doing things in a way that feels good to me - speedy production be damned.

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🎃 Fall at the upholstery shop =

🌸 Mums outside
🇦🇽 Plaid inside

🚲 I can’t show the chairs yet, but here at the flowers.

🎃🍁👻🍂❤️😂🙏😍🚲🔥🫣🤓😘💃

😬 I’m always here for a new challenge.

😮 Like…upholstered walls?!

🤪 May was crazy, and June is going to be crazy, too. I’ve been pulling a lot of long studio days and have had no room in my calendar to speak of for weeks!

🔥 But I’ve been doing so many projects that are fun and interesting, I don’t mind! (Though I do need to quiet things down enough to enjoy just a -little- bit of this glorious, and short, Maine summer!)

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😨 Whew!

🔥 Burning the candle at both ends: this week is the final push before a gigantic Saturday install up at the Norumbega in Camden this weekend!

👏 I can’t wait to share some pics when everything is in place!

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