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Old 19th January 2019, 13:08
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Molleur & Barber - Thanks gents.

As you will see from my next piece below, more practise is still required…

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Sewing Circle Continued…
It is wet and miserable outside, so it was back to practising my sewing.

The photo of Mr T's headrest showed a single 'hump' piece with second 'band' piece added for the depth.

So I cut out a small corner section just to test how it might work.

I also cut out an edge strip used in the sofa as that already had holes in it.



After putting holes in the 'face' piece I ran a single stitch loosely through the two sections.



Note: You have to sew them together with the inside faces on the outside.

At first, I though the 'band' section looked messy on the inside because the stitches were loose.



However, pulling the stitches tighter didn't seem to make any difference.



As this whole thing only works when you pull it inside out.





Lessons Learnt:
Using smaller stitches than the headlight cover was definitely the way to go.

But I will need to punch each hole through the two layers at the same time.
( As the original sofa holes were not an exact match for my hand made ones. )

The thread needs to be pulled much tighter than I did with this test piece to avoid seeing the stitches.
( Although I will be using black tread on the real head rest. )

You really need to take your time if you don't want the final piece to look like Frankenstein's handiwork.

Until next time, take care, Paul.
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