HOW-TO: Reupholster your door panels

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Since we are making two identical door panels, the first thing you do is, lay the fabric surface to surface. This is the artificial leather:



Next, Lynn took a pattern she made on plain brown paper and laid it down on the fabric. Once she was happy with it's position, she pinned it in place:



Then, she traced the pattern onto the fabric:



Cutting out the pattern. I told her to take pics step-by-step:



Here she is, working on the gray suede part:



Feel free to make your patterns bigger than the exact Mazda patterns, you can always trim down later.

Now that she got all the pieces cut out, it's time to pin them together. Since we're hiding the seams, you will notice that the back of the artificial leather is what's showing. We just matched 'em up the way Mazda did theirs.



Here it is all pinned together... Is that just hot sex on a platter, or what?



Here's the other side being pinned:



She's sewing them up right now after a couple practice runs. Now, remember, she has a hardcore sewing machine... It's a Bernina... It's no fuckin' Singer that your Grandma has in her closet, these are a couple grand a pop.