Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair

[Buster's Uncle]

I'm planning to get a little fancy with the back...

[Mylochka]

Looks great!!! 

[Unorthodox]

My hands scream out in pain just looking at that.  (tendonitis, not the sisal) 

[Buster's Uncle]

It is a trial...
 

[Buster's Uncle]

I'm taking a picture every time I use up a rope roll.
 



Here it is w/ the vertical on the back finished, from the front:



And here it is at the end of the roll:


-Before I tie in the next 50', I need to redo the last five rows; what I tried there doesn't look like anything...
 
 
I left a lot of slack in the verticals; I do not recall it being so impossible to pack rows tighter together.

[Buster's Uncle]

Here it is with the rows redone:


I should take a shot of when I knocked off last night before I resume work...

[Buster's Uncle]

Here's where I knocked off for the night last night...



...It was getting late.

I was on the last row before I went to lunch.

[Buster's Uncle]

I'm done with the weaving and have tied the ends and cut the excess:
 

 
Not as fancy as I had hoped to do going in - and I'm going over it yet to straighten lines and get spacing just so before I call it done.  -Like the seat, as you may have noticed in the shots of the back in progress, straight on in closeup is the least flattering viewing angle.  I suspect the design I worked into the middle of the back will actually stand out more and look better in an angled view.
 
At any rate, it's an old worn rocking chair that didn't sand out all that pristine for varnishing, and it's intended for porch duty - any flaws in my contribution are probably fitting to the nature of the thing; one of my wimminz had an art teacher many years ago who'd call a flawed student sculptural effort "organic"...

[gwillybj]

Barely looks like the same chair.

[Buster's Uncle]

I know, right?

Blue really doesn't suit a rocking chair, somehow...

[Buster's Uncle]

BREAKING NEWS: Truce Called in Rocking Chair / Long-Tailed Cat Feud
AC2 Fake News Service  1 September  7:54 P.M. EDT

 

Goblin [ center ] negotiates a peace accord with the rocking chair [ everything else ].  "I'm very fierce and dangerous," she said.



Nobel committee take note; there is peace in our time between Cats and Rocking Chairs.

In a development rocking the world of kitty-furniture relations, a (future) long-tailed cat has negotiated peace between the long-rancorous scratched-up rocking chair and nervous feline communities.

"I'm planning to have a tail three or four feet long someday when I'm a giant fuzzy lion," said hero of the hour Goblin, age six weeks, "So when I walked into a new room to find my hippy messing with a rocking chair, I didn't get nervous; I got even."

"I'm all bite, no bark, and if there's a thing fuzzy lion princesses do well, it's woop ropes - and this thing was partly MADE of rope.  It was easy and fun," she said.

Goblin said she promised that if rocking chairs would lay off the tails in the future, cats would stop with the scratching furniture.  "Don't tell, but I was lying about that," she said.

Sources close to the rocking chair deny that she even promised.

Goblin said fuzzy lions grow to in excess of 2,000 pounds and have all-over manes.  "We're the color of old Halloween decorations to honor the horror our notorious biting inspires in our many victims, whether hippies, Hershey or Momma," she said.
 

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[Buster's Uncle]

[E_T]

How do the kitty and the dog deal with each other??

[Buster's Uncle]

They don't.  I'd introduce the two, but Mylochka is still too traumatized from Chula killing Hershey's litter-sister not a year ago...

[Buster's Uncle]

My wimminz say the chair is faboo.

I suggested doing something embroidery/cross stitch-like with yarn or something around the center design on the back, but Mylochka loves it like it is.

I need to take it up to the deck and get a photo in its natural habitat...