Kellye gave me this umbrella (actually 2 of them) that Willy saved from the trash pile on a job. It's huge...about 12' across. The fabric was so dry rotted, that when I tried to sew the rips in the fabric, it just fell apart.
So, I decided to re-do the entire thing.
MDH sanded the wood so I could paint it. This is the same $5 gallon of paint from Lowe's in Vegas.
It matches our swing chair and the side table.
Last year Manfred gave me a bunch of fabric that his wife was throwing away. I had almost enough yellow silk for the panels. I wouldn't have chosen yellow & I wouldn't have chosen silk, but as someone always tells me..."If you can find it in the house, then you can have it." Since I'm not crazy about yellow, I decided to sew some patches on the underside...
I had to use orange velvet for the center section since I ran out of yellow silk.
I decided to add our initials so everyone knows who it belongs to ;)
Tah dah...
Free:)
I have an idea for the other one, but that's a project for later.
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