- Sat Apr 27, 2024 12:59 pm
#17415
Hi Guys,
I’m both new here and new to upholstery. I have purchased a Juki sewing machine to start practicing on. After doing some small pieces I have decided to try and recover some rear seats - thought these would be the easiest to start with.
I have stripped the covers off and picked them apart to make some card templates to then be able to transfer to Alston suede. The issue I’m coming up against is that where the material is so thin (1.2mm I believe) when I’m trying to trace my pattern it’s just bunching up and soo struggling to get something to mark the material easily.
Has anyone got any ideas round this? I have tried to pin the material down with pins around the template and used weights on the actual template but nothing so far has worked.
Cheers
I’m both new here and new to upholstery. I have purchased a Juki sewing machine to start practicing on. After doing some small pieces I have decided to try and recover some rear seats - thought these would be the easiest to start with.
I have stripped the covers off and picked them apart to make some card templates to then be able to transfer to Alston suede. The issue I’m coming up against is that where the material is so thin (1.2mm I believe) when I’m trying to trace my pattern it’s just bunching up and soo struggling to get something to mark the material easily.
Has anyone got any ideas round this? I have tried to pin the material down with pins around the template and used weights on the actual template but nothing so far has worked.
Cheers