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3-24-2008
3-24-2008
my motto: fake it till you make it.
get yourself a good seam ripper, take all the fabric apart really carefully and use your old peices for patterns. pin it all together and run it through the machine. if you dont like the way it came out, just seam rip it back apart and try again. 
I stitched all of the seams with piping by hand. my machine doesnt have the right foot for stitching over piping, and I wanted it all to line up right in the end so I used a thread and needle and passed it through the holes made when it was originally sewn together.
I just cant wait to get it all back together.
4-14-2008
well, Ive been fighting with the second door card since the last time I posted on this thread. I simply could NOT get the fabric to fit the contours of the door card.
the first time I did it in black it went right in. - but the fabric was stretchier and easier to work with.
I did the other card in red and that went in really well too.
but after I pulled the black off this card and tried to put the red on I just couldnt get it to go. you have to kind of stretch and shrink the fabric in different places to get it all in there without leaving wrinkles and stuff. I ended up ruining three peices of fabric because I would get too much glue on there or just lip out and rip it off.
in the end I just tried to make it look neat and hide the extra crap in the corner.
anyway. I just glued it together and have a stack of books on it holding it together.
the remaining peices should be back from the embroiderer any day now and Ill be able to finish the front seats. new headliner and stuff should be here tomorrow. then I can put it all back together
on another note, the new weitec coilovers should be in tomorrow, and a bunch of megasquirt stuff..
