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Originally Posted by Jim&Cindy
Clay L,
I would love to hear more about that process. I would love to recover our couch and don't even know how to begin. I can sew but I've never tackled a couch before. Pics??
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There are a few pictures of some of the finished pieces here
Furniture project pictures by ClayL - Photobucket
I was the grunt labor and Lee did all the real work.
I removed the fabric and she used that as a pattern for cutting the Ultraleather.
The dinette was easy. The couch was a little harder because of the size and the hog rings used to attach the fabric to the metal rods used in the construction of the couch.
The captain chairs were probably but the same process was used.
We bought a pair of hog ring pliers and a couple of bags of hog rings at a local fabric store.
Her inexpensive sewing machine that we carried with us gave up the ghost quickly. We were in Bouse AZ for the winter. We went to Lake Havasu City and couldn't one that was suitable there. The best machine we found there was a Bernina, but they said it wasn't suitable for sewing Ultraleather.
We went back to Bouse and bought a 75 year old White machine in a junk store for $25. No fancy stitches but made of real metal and it did a great job sewing the Ultraleather.