Swing Picture Ideas

[Kristin Banyas]

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KariAnne, I could not wait to see the finished product. I saw you yesterday on IG and you were so excited it made me excited.LOL. I too have a swing and would not have thought to do that. Have used them on cords in the house. You are Genius and resourceful. I will be following suit. Also, yesterday you mentioned not sure how will hold up. Spray with outdoor water repellent to keep moist away. Just a thought. Also, what is the plant that is in the urn? Thanks again. Have a great weekend.

Brilliant! We moved last October to a home that has a swing in the backyard. We were going to replace the rusted chains but this will make it look so much nicer! Think I'll wait until after it gets power washed though! What a great idea!

Great idea, KariAnne! Helpful explanation and easy enough for me to do. My husband put up a punching bag for my (then) young teen-age daughter years ago, and I also disliked seeing the chain it hung from it, although it was new and appropriate. It's down now, but your idea could have worked for that, as well. I suppose it might work on cords that cannot be hidden or almost anything that it might fit around. Well, maybe not ANYTHING! I love every sentence in your post, and I share the same sentiments about "the littles"!

You want to make your swings totally fabulous?!?!?! Add a heavy-duty spring where the swing is attached to the hook and you will love the "bounce" it gives the swing. It is such a simple thing--but boy will you love the results!!!

Karianne, when seeing this post I immediately thought back to when I paid a friend to make red/white checked covers for my porch swing chains! I saw this setup in a magazine years ago, and immediately thought I had to do this! However, my friend sewed these like a 'tube' with a tie string at the ends. They were challenging to get on and stayed on for years until they had to be removed because they were so dirty. And they were just as challenging to get off! When they were washed, there were no plans to put them back on! Being resourceful, they were saved and eventually landed up covering a piece of hose when I made a 'hose wreath.' =) I would entertain getting what you share because of the Velcro, however, I have allergies to jute/burlap so it would need to be made of another fabric. Yet I will look into this once again making life easier this time around. And that picture is priceless - consider enlarging/framing it so whenever you? hubby? or even the kids pass by it smiling knowing how they have grown and the memories that come with that.....priceless indeed!

Oh my goodness! You have to get your kids to recreate that photo! It's a quarantine thing! :D p.s. I grew up on Schoolhouse Rock, as well. My favorite was always, "We the people, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility .... ". It's never left me. Whomever owns the rights to Schoolhouse Rock should really bring it back! Take care.

Hope you were able to find a solution. But, for anyone who needs this same thing there is a company in California that specializes in patio swings and can make you a replacement seat sling for your metal patio swing. Price $69 to $89 depending on size. swingcushioncovers.com They can also make you a replacement canopy or cushion cover - they use Sunbrella fabric which comes with a 10 year warranty.

I used old pallets to replace mine, too. I took them apart, cut them to fit the seat and backrest, and tied them right on the chair frame and works great! Helpful Doreen Albee-Snider on May 26, 2015 I went and got clothes line and restrung it and pulled it as tight as I could and it came out GREAT! Now I just have to make cushions and it will be even better. I sat on it and it didn't move or sag at all. I am HAPPY! :) 1 marked as helpful Reply See 3 previous Kelly Bailey on Jun 09, 2017 CAN YOU PLEAS E POST A PIC OF THIS? THANKS INADVANCE

I attached a picture. We started on the bottom and weaved the rope over and under each side wrapping twice each end. Then We taped the ends of the rope because the red covering starts to unwind. Also try not to unwind all of it. Just unwind as you go along. It took about 2 hours. We used poly rope from Home Depot but I think Lowes or any hardware store would have it. We bought two packages at 10 dollars a piece because my husband is a perfectionist when he puts his mind to something plus it has a 244 pound weight limit. I hope this helps. I haven't done the cushion yet just through a sheet on it. Let me know if you have any questions.

i have done ours and in the process of doing 2 more swings....we disassembled the swing and carefully removed the cover so a pattern can be made .... bought some outside sunbrella type fabric cut it out sewed it up and reassembled it......my latest patten i made from a large vinyl tablecloth so i have a forever pattern for when i need it again....

Could anyone tell me the manufacturer of the original poster's swing? I just found one on a swap page and I'd love to find the original schematics on it. It, too, has the sling torn out of it. I was told by the original owner that it had a canopy to it, too, but it tore apart long ago, and they did not remember the brand or store from which it came from. This threads picture is the only one I've found that looks like it could be the same model as mine.

They do sell replacement slings, just make sure you measure to confirm the "universal" part. Otherwise if you do sew, you can use the old one as a pattern to make new. Sunbrella fabric is waterproof and fade resistant and made for this type of application.

You should be able to find replacement fabric covers already pre-made online but you can likely DIY up a cool replacement using wood, outdoor fabric, webbing, or other sturdy outdoor material. In the end you'll have a custom piece all your own!

The famous tree swing picture (also known as tyre swing, tire swing, rope swing) depicting tyre (or tire) and rope swing in various states of dysfunctionality, illustrates the pitfalls of poor product design, or poor customer service, and the dangers of failing to properly listen to customers and interpret their needs.

The tree swing also demonstrates the dangers of departmental barriers, and failures of departments to talk to each other, and to talk to customers. As such, the tree swing is perfect for training these areas of quality, communications, customer care and inter-departmental relations. If you are using the tree swing to highlight a training subject most people very readily interpret the pictures into their own organisational situations. Some tree swing discussion points are at the foot of the page.

Marketing - Adding overly complex, unnecessary value - embellishment, putting their own mark onto things, creativity for creativity's sake, subjective as opposed to objective. May ignore customer survey feedback, failure to consult with engineering, production and anyone else in the organisation.

Management - cost-conscious, process-led rather than output-aware, failure to understand and interpret real issues and implications, failure to ask questions, committee decisions produce impractical solutions, removed from reality, detached from customers and front-line staff, failure to consult with users and functional departments.

Engineering - technical interpretation rather than practical, unconcerned with aesthetics and ergonomics, lack of consultation with specifiers and user representatives, inappropriate materials and absence of styling.

Manufacturing - production specification over-rides design considerations, detached from users, specifiers, designers, and everyone else except other manufacturing staff. Unconcerned with usability or functionality, unconcerned with bells and whistles and added value, totally focused on production efficiency, cost and time, lack of liaison with all other departments.

Maintenance - necessity is the mother of invention, very big tool-boxes, huge stocks of parts and ancillaries, materials, nuts, bolts and all other fixings known to man, happy to work all hours, especially evenings, weekends and public holidays at treble-time-and-a-half with days off in lieu, never consult with specifiers or customer specifications, enjoy quick-fixes, sticky-tape, mastic, bending bracketry, planks of wood and extended tea-breaks, never liaise with any other departments and think management are all useless idiots who can't even change a plug.

Uncertainty surrounds the origins of the tree swing cartoons. Several variations of the cartoons now exist, some extending to more than six pictures, in colour and in more elaborate detail, covering additional departmental perspectives (see the specially designed series of Businessballs Treeswing Cartoons, for example).

In the first few years of the world-wide web I recall seeing a web page reference which named a cartoonist who supposedly originated the tree swing cartoons in the first half of the 1900s, but regrettably I never kept and cannot find that reference. It may or may not have been correct of course.

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