Next time I'll just buy a new couch: Part I

So...am I working on my white blazer?  Nope.  Have I started my homework from last week for the online sewing class I signed up for?  Double nope.  What HAVE I been doing?  Torturing myself by sewing a slip cover for the couch.  And, I'm about half way there (to being tortured).  I haven't cried yet, but there's still time.

The couch has spent its whole life being very red, which I have enjoyed for quite a while.  About 5 years, I think.  But, I'm tired of looking at it; yes, I'm tired of the red.  Who knew there could ever be too much red in one's life?  I entertained buying a new couch, knowing how much work this would involve, but I'm just too cheap right now.

I chose some blue fabric online and had it shipped, and I'm still deciding whether I hate it's country undertones or not.  I really wasn't going for country.  Honest.

Here's the couch at the start of this project (minus its cushions).

Here's some draping and pinning work...

...and the dog being totally bored by this two-day long affair (though her tail IS blurry in the photo, so she must have been wagging at me...poor thing probably thought we were going outside--which we did not because it is literally 100 stinkin' degrees outside).

And here's the (almost) finished base part of the slip cover, the red cushions I still have to cover (zippers and all).

Here I draped some blue fabric over the seat cushions, just to give you the overall effect of the blue couch.  Oh, and I also made the pillows this weekend.

Maybe next weekend I'll have it done so I can blog Part II:  Next time I'll just buy a new couch.