Doggone Good Furniture

I found this picture of Jo's dog from Jo's Country Junction on her blog.

http://www.joscountryjunction.com/?p=4157

She made a chair cover to protect the chair from Gracie the beagle. There's a recipe for it on the Moda bakeshop.
http://www.modabakeshop.com/2011/06/jelly-roll-chair-cover.html

Jo used a Jellyroll package of strips from my Civil War Reunion collection for Moda.

It's a theme. I just finished a similar item for my sister who collects dogs. Her husband collects antique furniture. Bad combination.

Izzie and friend

She thought some kind of a chair pad of William Morris fabric to cover the craftsman settle (a leather-upholstered bench) might be smart, because the new dog Izzie likes to sit on it.

Here's a mockup we agreed upon by email. That's my dog Dot photoshopped in there to show the function.

We decided on this green Honeysuckle from the Morris Garden collection I did for Moda several years ago. I'd bought a bolt.

She measured the seat and I made a whole-cloth rectangular quilt that size without any batting, bound it in a compatible print and made two ties for each corner (each about 12" long) so she could tie it to the wooden posts and it won't slip off. It's two-sided and I needed 4 yards of the fabric (her bench is 27" x 72".)

Here's a shot of the corners with one tie pinned into place and the other already stitched into the binding. I put the ties about an inch from the corner.

She says it's too good to use (NOT!). It's machine quilted and not quilted very closely so it took a few hours to make. I even bound the edges by machine.

She could, of course, teach the dog to sit on the floor, but if you look closely at this William Morris painting of his wife you will see the dog is curled up on the bed (where dogs belong.) So Willie would approve.