Over the course of 3 days I have successfully upholstered the couch enough so that I can sit on it! :) The first part that has to be upholstered is the seat, but doing this requires a sewing machine, and I accidentally forgot Dana's sewing machine in Burlington. I had to hope and pray that my sewing machine would work and would have a zipperfoot attachment if I wanted to use it. Luckily something finally went right with this project and I was able to repair my sewing machine, AAAANNNDDD there was a zipperfoot attachment in my book of sewing machine supplies! I was able to move on with the project as hoped. If you look carefully at the picture you might be able to see that the seat cover has a seam about 3 inches back from the front edge, well this had to be handsewn, which was a process but after that it move along quite quickly. I finished the handsewing and got to use my staple gun. As a side note, when I was removing staples I was cursing whomever had assembled this couch and decided to use so many staples, but I must say that it is really easy to get staple happy when you have that gun in your hand!
The next part of the couch that gets completed are the two arms. Completing the first arm required quite a learning curve and a lot of undoing and redoing. After about 4 hours I finally completed the first arm.
Completing arm 2 and the back of the sofa only took about 2 hours and the best part is that the couch is now upholstered enough to sit on it! I even took a nap on it already. I can't continue the project anymore until some additional supplies arrive, but all that is left are the outsides of the two arms and the back. Then I will add cording to the bottom edge and but the cover on the bottom!
2 comments:
Oh my gosh it is looking so good!!! From this angle you can hardly tell you aren't done yet. Can't wait to see the finished product in person!
Impressive! This might require a trip down to inspect the work in person . . .
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