Alain's Brasil-style turbo Fox build

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Another small update on the seats. Got the two pieces of fabric back from embroidering 





Super happy with the result 

Heading up to the motherland tomorrow, too - have a foxy Christmas, everyone 

2-28-2014

Back at home for a bit over a month now, before sharing what I brought back this time, I'll show what I've been working on for the past month.

Been tackling the seat project myself, learning about sewing and upholstery. It's simpler, more straightforward than I thought, but it does take a lot of time and patience - especially since I am doing it mostly by hand, wherever there are curves or piping involved. I've learned how to thread and use a sewing machine, but I only use it where the stitching goes straight.

Basically I've taken apart the seat using this thread as a reference, then marking along where each piece of cloth meets each other for later reference, undoing the original stitching, ironing each part separately, then tracing it on the new cloth, and sewing it together the same way it was before, with double the thread to make it last.

It helps that these seats have a really smart design, where anyone can actually take them apart with simple tools and work on each piece individually pretty easily. The hardest was making sure the lines and segments all lined up for the blue striped cloth, but after some trial and error it went really well. I'm glad I bought more cloth than needed 









The first seat is almost done; this is a test fit. Still need to finish the bottom of the back rest, and do the headrest. So far so good.

Then it's on to do the back seat and door cards