Bluebird Upholstery

🍃🌸🌺 William Morris Lampshade Making Workshop at John Lewis & Partners in Liverpool One!

Saturday 16th May, choose from an AM or PM session.

Learn how to make a drum lampshade in a beautiful William Morris print fabric, in a relaxed 2 hour workshop. Cuppa & a brownie 🫖🍪in the John Lewis restaurant after the workshop, is included in the ticket price.

Book tickets -£58.50 p/person - on Eventbrite - link below 🎫🎟️

William Morris Lampshade Making Workshop Get creative with Bluebird Upholstery, and learn how to make your very own lampshade, using timeless William Morris fabric!

Delighted to be trading at the Make.North Docks & Invisible Wind Factory Winter Arkade event on Sunday 16th November!

Save the date! Lots of lovely stalls by local makers as well as workshops & other fun stuff. I’ll be selling cushions / lampshades / footstools & smaller stocking filler items ❤️🎄❄️❤️ 🎄 ❄️ ❤️

Next lampshade workshop; Sat 10 August John Lewis Liverpool store, AM & PM session 🎫🎫🎫✨✨✨

William Morris Lampshade Making Workshop Get creative with Bluebird Upholstery, and learn how to make your very own lampshade, using timeless William Morris fabric!

Deadline of 24 October to have your say on U.K. Government new draft fire regulations for upholstered furniture.

The U.K. has the strictest fire regs when it comes to upholstered furniture, necessitating the use of toxic chemicals in top fabrics and fillings. This new legislation will affect EVERYONE, not just those of us in the industry. It will result in increased use of toxic chemicals in our furniture which are particularly hazardous to small children. There are much better, proven alternatives.

Can I ask you all to please take a look at the website below, go to the ‘add your name’ section and sign the open letter to the Government to let them know we don't want, or need, these chemicals in our homes.

Please share, the more signatures the better, deadline is 24th October.

Thank you. And for more info take a look at the posts & videos of some brilliant Upholsterers who are spearheading this campaign such as Vintique Upholstery

CFR campaign | Eco Chair The Government acknowledges the harm to health and the environment of chemical flame retardants in furniture and has published a consultation on new draft regulations, the aim being to reduce toxic chemical flame retardant usage and retain fire safety.

⭐️NEW⭐️ Beginners Upholstery Evening Class!

UPDATE : all spaces have now been filled.

Join me for a weekly upholstery leisure class, workshop : Pilgrim St, L1, Liverpool. Starting mid April, on a Tuesday or Thursday evening (tbc) 5.30-9pm.

I can only accommodate 3 students so places are limited 😂 so you’ll benefit from a small group / lots of 1-to-1 tuition time. Students sign up for a block of 6 weeks costing £180, plus the cost of materials & fabric used. I am hoping to run 4 x 6 week blocks between April - Oct so towards the end of the first block of classes, students will be given the option to sign up for the next block. Any spaces that become available at this point will be offered to those on the waiting list.

The syllabus is up to you - Students can bring their own pieces to work on (this will be limited to smaller, simpler pieces as it is a beginners class so I will discuss with you beforehand to advise you on what types of pieces will be suitable to work on) or I can provide students with the materials needed / source furniture for some beginner projects such as footstools / head-boards / dining chairs etc. Sewing projects such as scatter cushions, box cushions (not curtains/ blinds or loose covers) can also be covered in the class.

The £180 covers tuition, use of all tools & equipment, use of library of reference materials, storage of your project between classes, refreshments : tea/coffee/biscuits.

Upholstery materials & fabrics for your evening-class projects can can be purchased through me at trade price plus 10%.

UPDATE : All spaces are now filled. DM me if you would like to go on the waiting list.

Imogen X

❤️💚💛💜💙💖FOR SALE 💜💙💖💛💚❤️

Round footstool with mint green hairpin legs from the The Hairpin Leg Co. & covered in glorious Kitty McCall printed linen. Thick ply base & fire-retardant interliner used so that the fabric complies with fire regulations. Size is 30cm height x 40cm diameter.

Price is £139 plus postage (£9 for UK postage), or free to collect if you’re local. DM me to purchase or with any questions, after 1 week if unsold I will add to my Etsy shop but will have to increase the price to cover the hike in seller fees on there.

My clever customer Louise has designed THE most gorgeous under-stair reading nook 📚 ❤️📚❤️📚 and I delivered a car-load of custom cushions for it today: bench seat buttoned box-cushion, buttoned bolsters, round cushions & square piped scatters. I love the combination of colours, patterns & textures Louise has chosen 😍😍

Fabrics are Warwick Fabrics UK Ltd Graf in Turmeric, Villa Nova, Fabrics and Wallcoverings Atil velvet in flame, romo_fabrics Issia in Manderine, ROMO fabrics Katori in Manderine.

This was the final large-scale piece I’ll be doing for the foreseeable future as Bluebird Upholstery will now be a part-time venture for me, as I will be working full-time elsewhere.

I’ll still be doing customer commissions, but I will be limited to smaller /quicker pieces & also the turnaround time for jobs will be much slower.

Imogen x

Antique deep-buttoned chaise, reupholstered from frame using traditional methods & materials. Fabric is Piccadilly Teal by Fabric from the Underground II Series.

Dining chairs re-covered in a printed velvet fabric supplied by my customer.

There are 10 dining chairs in total that my customer has been sourcing for a while. The chairs are different styles and eras, and all will have their seats re-covered in this striking fabric, which is a great way to bring different pieces together in a design scheme.

Thanks to my lovely guinea-pigs for doing a practice lampshade making session with me last week ❤️❤️❤️, and to the lovely ladies who joined me for the first Bring Your Own Fabric Lampshade Making workshop this morning in Baltic Creative CIC . Gorgeous shades made by all 😍.

There are spaces left on next weeks William Morris fabric lampshade workshop (Weds 16 March, 6-8pm DoES Liverpool) and on the next bring your own fabric lampshade workshop (Friday 1 April, 10am-midday Ness Botanic Gardens ). The session on 9 April at Williamson Art Gallery & Museum_ is now sold out.

Just search for Bluebird Upholstery on the Eventbrite app / website to book tickets or click on the events section on here 🎟🎟🎟🎟