Showing posts with label Upholstery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Upholstery. Show all posts

Tuesday, 29 November 2022

30 Nov 2022

Perhaps it was the impending St Andrew's day that was motivation for finally completing the upholstery of the passenger seat, though I would have actually had to remember that it was St Andrew's day (which I didn't), but finally it is done and for the time being that is it with upholstery.

The old Bluebird sewing machine had given up the ghost, so it is moving on to a new home in a museum (no, really, it is going to a museum!) and a new quite inexpensive Elna machine had no problem stitching it all together. Yah!



 I know they are not both the same. I was originally going to go for just an insert look with wings of the original upholstery  as per the base of the drivers seat, though that was somewhat too ambitious for my limited ability and a whole face replacement was much more my speed. Maybe one day I'll change the base of the drivers seat as well, certainly have enough cloth to do it, though for now I am happy for it to stay as it is.

Thursday, 2 December 2021

2 Dec 2021

 It sure took a long time and to say that the old Bluebird sewing machine behaved itself would be an overstatement, though finally the Drivers seat upholstery has been done (well at least until the vinyl splits again on the base).


It wasn't exactly as envisioned, though it'll do for the time being, though both the seat base and the passenger side seat faces will both need to be redone at some stage. No hurry just yet though. Just like the paint job on the car, it looks ok from a distance.

21 Apr 2025

 21 Apr 2025 Penultimate day has just been done! Well for the 2025 Morris Minors Rally in Perth anyway. It has sort of turned into a South A...