I picked up four directors chairs at a thrift store for $5 each. They didn’t have any seat backs or bottoms. And I spent the summer terrified to try to make my own patterns and sew up my first upholstery project. 

I finally worked up the courage to make it happen! 
After a great deal of measuring and cutting and fretting and feeling like I was failing? I DID IT! And Dale and I sat in them and I felt triumphant.