Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair

[Buster's Uncle]

So I got to work-


Note Moses underneath, where he'd been "helping".

A view from behind.


Then a kid-scale chair showed up.




Goblin, seen here in the act of "helping".  Those two go into a positive frenzy when I'm weaving sisu seats.


The big seat finally done, Goblin finishes her inspection.




Mylochka had a shift minding the art gallery the following Saturday, so I wove the seat for the little chair right there in the shop.

It's sorta fun to do my crap for an audience at the shop and answer questions.  I hope it doesn't seem rude that I fail to stop working and look at them much - but a couple asked how to contact Buster's Daddy to commission a set of chairs for their deck...  I haven't heard if anything ever came of that, but these two chairs led to me getting a commission to put a seat in another rocking chair.

Now I have to figure out wicker.  She pulled a bit of a bait-and-switch one me...

[Spacy]

Eh, kilns for ceramics are 1000's of years old.  For wood I don't know how long they have been in use, but 100's I would bet.

[Spacy]

Good luck with the wicker!

[Buster's Uncle]

The long-delayed pics of the rocking chair in its natural habitat.

[Geo]

Looks reasonably comfy.

Why don't we see someone enjoying it? And when will the second... third... fourth cousin join it?

[Buster's Uncle]

Second... third... fourth cousin?  Join it?

What?

[Buster's Uncle]

At any rate, this showed up in the house over a month ago,

 

-and I finally gave up on waiting for Buster's Daddy to say anything about it yesterday, and set to work.  Seat's about 3/4 done, and in-progress pics coming soon.

[Buster's Uncle]

So here's what I got done yesterday, with the new shuttle-thingy I had to make this afternoon - the old one's gone missing.

I managed to leave a lot of slack in the columns -which turns out not to be entirely a good thing- and tried a fancier weave...


Here's a couple hours later.

I decided to go for a zig-zag pattern; I keep making creative/practical decisions on this one that make it more work for me.  The long thin shuttlecock is probably way too long...

[Geo]

Second... third... fourth cousin?  Join it?

What?

I meant, when are you going to continue building rocking chairs so the one on the porch doesn't look so lonely?

[Buster's Uncle]

Still waiting for more chairs to be thrown out...

[Buster's Uncle]

When I resumed work, Moses was "helping" by doing some product testing...

[Buster's Uncle]

The finished seat.










And upstairs, Carmen tries it out.

 



-Now to get a before pic of the little rocking chair - that woman never came through with the wicker supplies she promised, and obviously don't know what she wants, so I'm gonna do it with some smooth cord and be done with it...

[ColdWizard]

You must be very proud to have your work approved by Inspector Moses.

[Buster's Uncle]

Oh yes.

[Geo]

What weight do you think the seat could hold?
I'm assuming a human can't sit in it without getting acquinted with the floor real fast.