Anyway, I have been looking for a child size couch at garage sales in hopes of having the foam for a foundation to remake for our piano room. I found one a few weeks ago for $1! The foam was heavy duty and in great shape, but the cover was a cheap fabric with thomas the train.
I came home and soaked the foam in a mixture of hot water, bleach and soap. I let it soak for hours, and then let the foam dry for days!
Rick went with me to JoAnn's and we picked out some fabric that would go well in the room. My mom is the queen of upholstery redo's and sewing. I asked her for tips on how to do it! I gently cut apart all the pieces off the old cover and used them as a pattern.
Last week I finally found time to make it and I did SO good by myself piecing it altogether and getting nice clean seam lines...UNTIL I got to the arms! That is when I lost my patience, ambition and vision! Fortunately for me Rick is amazing when it comes to everything and swooped in and helped me mentally and physically finish it!
(side note: he did say he was impressed with how much better my sewing skills have become and that if I keep it up he will get me a BERNINA!)
So we shoved and squeezed the cover onto the foam pieces to finish the last stitch only to turn it over and find that all that shoving had busted my gorgeous perfect arm seams!!! Agh!!!!! I was so bummed...they looked professional....thus the ugly hand stitching. And why is it not in a beautiful perfect line? That is because when I handstitched the first arm and went onto the 2nd arm, THAT stitching tore! So I had to get really creative and you can see my ugly stitching to repair the damage!
Anyway! I am happy it is done! I am happy I finished it, I couldn't have done it without Rick! I love how it looks, and most importantly Hunter loves it!!!!!!!
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