take a (miniature) seat

Hey everyone, I'm back with something that actually belongs on this blog 😉, but thank you so much for your wonderful and supportive comments on my last post, it means a lot! Because I needed something a bit straight forward for now I recently started a miniature chair I've wanted to make for years. After one I've had myself that I still love and although I plan to one day make one just like it, for now I'll make a green leather version.

Why green? Well, because I have an old olive green leather jacket that is a bit damaged but more importantly makes me look 20 pounds heavier than I am and for some years now I thought it is however the most lovely and perfect material for a miniature leather .., well anything really, like a chair. It's very soft & supple and slightly aged. I might make a chesterfield couch with it someday, I've always loved those too and how cool would a green one be?

don't judge.. 😊 the material is too perfect for what I love to make (as I am usually the biggest fan of giving clothing a second life as well as a fan of second-hand clothes and second-hand anything myself), haven't had the heart to cut the leather yet though.. ;)

I'm not sure if I'll succeed at making the 'chesterfield'-type indentations (I think there is a term for that, but if so I have no idea what that is) mostly because I'm not able to use a sewing machine but I'm also not sure íf the leather - although not thick at all - is thin enough for that. But I'll definitely give it a try and see what I'm able to make of it.

That's for later as I obviously started with the skeleton. I have no idea what that looks like on the inside and no expert in miniature furniture as it is, but I decided to use 5 of the basic shape - that I determined based on what I could feel through the fabric and padding - I cut from a sheet of 1,5mm mdf. I'm going to fill each section up with 7 layers of pieces of coffee stirrers. They are perfectly narrow for that and can also be easily snapped at the right length (cut superficially with a hobby knife first). → I later realized it probably has more depth in the middle so I cut more out of the seating area towards the middle, as you can see above.

I had them the same size here, but decided to cut out more of the middle sections

For the legs I found staircase posts in my stash I've started to cut into the right shape and I once found the most perfect little wheels for it I've had for quite some years with this very chair in mind. They are from Art of Mini, but unfortunately for anyone who would love to have some, they don't sell them anymore at the time of writing this post. Maybe they will again in the future. The legs are still quite raw and not what they should be, but it's a start.

 

In case anyone is wondering about the working blender and treetrunk-coffee table I was in the process of making, I have not forgotten those I promise. I would actually really love to proceed with and finish those, but I have my (long story) reasons for still not being able to work on either one of them and this is the alternative. The chair does fit and will go in the scene with the coffee table that could actually use an easy chair so it's still related to that 😊.