Reupholstering an old footstool

 Not my normal type of post but I am working on stuff.  :-)  I have had this old footstool for a few years and keep it at work, normally.   

I bought it for €5 in Italy and wasn't too concerned about how kitschy it looked.  It's clearly 1990s and well, it needed a refresh.   First, I took the rope trim off the footstool.  I realized after taking the rope trim off that the rope trim and the fabric were pretty well glued down.  I decided to keep the fabric on it footstool, mostly, and just use it to help keep the new stuffing in place rather than mostly sew down the new fabric and stuff it that way.  

It became very, very stuffed.  

I then stapled on a rather nice golden tan cotton velvet I had on hand.  I just folded the edges under and used an upholster staple gun - which I found out are pretty cheap.  In order to make the footstool fancy, I gathered a blue lace I had in the stash and wanted to add it as a skirt.  The plan was to add another trim on top of that and I found a fabulous fringe that went perfectly.

The finished footstool!   I sewed the fringe trim and the gathered lace to the velvet.  The corners are far from perfect but this is for work so my ability to care too much is gone.  I just wanted it to look fancy.  :-)