When I'd covered all but the seat with the new fabric, I decided I didn't want the whole thing the same colour. Luckily I found exactly the right length of material: a beautiful curtain from a flat I lived in about 20 years ago - the pattern even echoes my new oriental rug.
It took some deft manipulating and hours of stitching back what I cut
off by mistake, but finally it all came together. Trickiest of all were
the arms - staple gun fired hundreds of staples into the front panels
of the sofa's arms to coax fabric into the required curves. But staple
craziness is hidden beneath a solution which I may have invented: traced
the shape of left and right arms' front panels, cut the shapes out of
thin card, then wrapped and glued the fabric to the card, then glued
the wrapped panels in position. Presto, no piping!
Like I said, it's not perfect but it's not bad.
Like I said, it's not perfect but it's not bad.
3 comments:
That looks perfect, congratulations on the flair & ingenuity involved.
Looks pretty darned good to me.
Thanks Vincent, perfect it ain't (mustn't look too closely) but it works. What's for sure is that I wouldn't undertake this agin!
Bruce,yes it is pretty damned good, absolutely!
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