LOLOL

I always reckoned you can't talk about stitching all of the time - stitching - info - much chat, is what a live stitching group does when it meets.

I've been recovering diningroom chair seats today, my hands ache from the staple machine and I have ripped most of my finger nails removing staples. Oh well, two left to do tomorrow.

Hey- when you're done, want to come help me. Mine are seats only and I have a staple pulling tool. Bonus is you can help me shop for new fabric first! LOL

I was really lucky - when I moved here I had a chair professionally recovered, for some reason old Bucket really hated that chair, it was ribbons but thankfully he was not interested in the recovered chair.

I was a bit annoyed at the time that they apparently ordered enough of two fabrics to cover two chairs - but it has come in handy now. I did the two end chairs in one fabric and the others in the other. Looks like it was intentional lol

What sort of staple pulling tool do you mean ? I have two different ones (left over from upholstery classes) but they are not powered so still require hands, fingers and wrists. These had been shot in with a power stapler so were beastly.

It is an extra long tool for more leverage - one end is forked and the other like a narrow flat screwdriver - about a foot long. Worked a treat

Yes, have that but wait until you try removing staples shot in with an air driven stapler, it's like changing a tire when the mechanic put them on with an air whatnot. It's probably because I am older than you lol

Though I have to say the place where I get my tires changed now, guarantees they have backed them off enough that if you are hundred kilometres out in the wild, you WILL be able to change it lol