The Upholstery Forum

I thought I would share this with you guys. This is a buddy of mines Blazer. It was the first bench seat that I re covered and then he brought it back to me to finish out the rest of the interior. I made the back seat from scratch because the floor is really modified to fit all of the suspension, so it didn’t leave much room. But he didn’t want just a big carpeted open area. I learned a lot doing it and it was also the first time I made custom fit carpet. Definitely learned you have to think a few steps ahead. But I’m pretty happy with how it came out.

@Mikesimpson
Dude! that looks awesome!!!! Nice work!! The double diamonds look really good!

Thanks John! I learned how to do all this stuff from your courses and trial and error. I never would have dreamed that I would be able to make my own upholstery from scratch let alone do it for others. Thanks for putting your knowledge together and sharing it with everyone. Now I have people lined up wanting to get work done haha.

That looks really great! It is such a good feeling when John's courses and your first job come together! Good luck with all your work.

You guys are awesome!! Thanks so much!

@Mikesimpson Stories like yours are exactly the reason I work so hard to build The Lucky Needle. Thanks!

@kl4bidn Thanks you rock!!!

@Mikesimpson , I give you a hand On these things myself would rathernot say how difficult it can be as you all know lots of redos and what the hells. You did a fantastic job and really think it looks GREAT!

Great Job, that's something to be proud of!

That’s awesome! I can imagine this would bring you in a lot of customers. You’ll have to post more as you finish them

Thanks Cody. Yeah after people have seen it I have no shortage of guys wanting me to do work for them haha. I only do this in my spare time after work, so finding the time to get stuff done in the time that I like is my challenge. One thing I never liked about having upholstery done by others was it would always take forever to get done, or you would just get blown off by the guy doing the work.

Outstanding!

Excellent job!
How hard is it to keep that double-stitching on the diamond pattern as straight as you did?

Thanks! It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be to keep straight. I just had to really pay attention to what I was doing because it gets really boring when you are just sewing straight lines haha. You just have to make sure to keep everything straight as your feeding it through the machine because the material wants to hit the body of the sewing machine and push it out of alignment when you get toward the middle if the panel. Something else I learned the hard way to keep in mind is pay attention you your bobbin thread. You go through it fast doing the double diamonds, and it sucks when you run out in the middle of a row.

Looks Good

Great advice @Mikesimpson Haha its so frustrating when you run out of bobbin on those

Looks sweet! Great work!

Wow, looks like a monumental job. Nice work

I watched all of John's videos on YouTube and found out about this forum from there. This post and his videos is what made me take the courses. Awesome job!!

Welcome to the forum @M_Cobern !!! Happy to have you here. Cant wait to see your progress pictures!

@John thank you sir! If I can ever get these machine problems figured out I will post some progress.