Today: Working the first dinette seat cushion - the u-shape connector piece.
Determining a preferred cushion corner piping look, I found a suitable template to round the top plates - a large flat washer and cut each corner to size.
Then located the mid points of the long sides and the center point of the boxing, and made small notches. That way I can align things during assembly.
A little big on that one.
Before laying out the basting tape, I came in 1/8" and made marks, in essence giving me a seam allowance of 3/8".
That's the only one I did like that too, because the cover ended up being a bit too snug. The remaining four were loosened slightly by going right to the fabric edges and using just a 1/4" seam allowance. Those were still tight, and difficult to compress and staple, but easier than this one.
Where I butt jointed the piping I followed the video instructions and folded the vinyl pieces together, then folded one end into a half point, kind of like the first fold on a paper airplane to get the point. I got a look I didn't like. If it was just thin fabric it would have been okay, but since it was thicker vinyl fabric it was just too bulky.
This was the only one I did like that. The rest were left unfolded as kind of seen in the piping attached to the staple flap above.
I'll talk more tomorrow about doing the actual sewing when I show the other cushions. For today, here's the finished cover.
Back in the garage, I moved some staples to make room for the same sort of rounding on the boards, cut the carpet back and then used a jig saw to round each wooden corner.
Once stuffed we had this.
After fitting, I pulled it back apart and stapled the front edge of the cover to the backer board, then re-stuffed and compressed and pulled the thing together, stapling down the other three sides. I didn't get pictures.
