Footstool (as birthday present)

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One of my roommates had a birthday recently, and when I thought about gifts it ocurred to me that she reclined in her family’s old armchair pretty often.  She’d told us a story of how it had once had a matching footstool, but nobody in the family could seem to remember what happened to it, so I decided to make her one.  Full of figuring and learning the lathe (yay!), this project brought some challenges, but was an overall good learning experience.

Upholstery?

Upholstery?

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