Mick has gone through several pairs of jeans in the past 3 years and the ones that have split, through stretching to get onto the boat have all been saved for my fabric stash. He forgets to hutch up his pants before stretching his leg up to get on-board and then the wind blows through the holes.
I like colour schemes that blend from light to dark and that was the effect I was going for. It wasn’t totally successful and I will ask someone else’s opinion on the shading next time.
From sewing the boat upholstery I found out that sewing the pieces together is the first step, then to keep it all flat you top sew on each side of the seams. This worked well and the cushions are bump free.
I used white piping string inside the piped edges and dark blue bias binding. Unfortunately the white shows through a bit, no one else will notice, but I do. Will use black next time.
I used curtain lining for the back and inserted the zip by simply cutting a slit into the fabric with small triangles at the end so that I could iron it back and simply lay the zip beneath and sew around the hole. As it is very rare that you use these zips they don’t have to be that robust.
They are lovely and comfy and should be hard wearing.
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