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08-21-2012, 08:31 PM
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Boat reupholstering anyone done it?
Mil has offered me her industrial pfaff machine, so I am thinking I have a winter project lined up. Can anyone offer helpful tips?
I am thinking that by using the existing material will of course be massively helpful, and when I go to sew the pieces together I will use a pencil line to follow very slowly, but YouTube and google can only teach me so much.
Happily I have an empty bay so the boat can sit all winter in the shop, and with the 18 year old leaving soon I have a room to sew in, just need to get creative.
Piping scares me.....
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08-21-2012, 08:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Ken07AOVette
Mil has offered me her industrial pfaff machine, so I am thinking I have a winter project lined up. Can anyone offer helpful tips?
I am thinking that by using the existing material will of course be massively helpful, and when I go to sew the pieces together I will use a pencil line to follow very slowly, but YouTube and google can only teach me so much.
Happily I have an empty bay so the boat can sit all winter in the shop, and with the 18 year old leaving soon I have a room to sew in, just need to get creative.
Piping scares me.....
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Piping is simple enough, you'd be surprised.
Take your old upholstery and a seam ripper. lots of pictures and number each piece in order of disassembly. You now have your pattern for the fabric you choose and number the backs of them accordinglyso reassembly is easier.
If this is your first time, get spare chunks of fabric and piping and practice getting your seams with them straight.
Mom was a seamstress, uncle did upholstery work, step daughter did fashion design in college ( don't ask) picked up a few things. Fabric comes apart a lot easier then welded steel if your seams aren't straight.
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08-22-2012, 08:58 AM
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Welding I could handle, but sewing 
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Originally Posted by Twisted Canuck
I wasn't thinking far enough ahead for an outcome, I was ranting. By definition, a rant doesn't imply much forethought.....
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08-22-2012, 09:24 AM
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Think of it as "stitch welding" 
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08-22-2012, 04:00 PM
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Trouble is I think you have to have any amount of artistic talent to do this, and I do not.
I bought all the vinyl today, enough to do the cover and entire upholstery, just have to get the machine here from the MIL, and get at ripping seams.
More to come......
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Originally Posted by Twisted Canuck
I wasn't thinking far enough ahead for an outcome, I was ranting. By definition, a rant doesn't imply much forethought.....
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08-22-2012, 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Ken07AOVette
Trouble is I think you have to have any amount of artistic talent to do this, and I do not.
I bought all the vinyl today, enough to do the cover and entire upholstery, just have to get the machine here from the MIL, and get at ripping seams.
More to come......
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Let me know when you get good at it....might be a long winter???? 
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08-22-2012, 04:02 PM
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Pics would be nice. 
Yanno a good welder would just weld that upholstery.
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08-22-2012, 04:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Ken07AOVette
Trouble is I think you have to have any amount of artistic talent to do this, and I do not.
I bought all the vinyl today, enough to do the cover and entire upholstery, just have to get the machine here from the MIL, and get at ripping seams.
More to come......
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I Don't buy it. Welding from a plan takes as much artistic know how as sewing does. You do need to learn how to keep your pieces straight, know the rate on which the fabric needs to be fed through, what type of foot to use, just like what shielding gas to use, amps, and feed rate depending on your thickness of material.
Man up and learn to sew 
But seriously, good luck and I'd love to see pics
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