How to Make a Stadium Cushion (Seat) For Your Car – Sewing Machines Los Angeles

Making a stadium cushion (seat) by your own is good way to provide your car an accessory that when created attractively can enhance the interior appearance of your car. Stadium cushion seats can be commonly seen during big events held at indoor or outdoor stadiums and coliseums. This can definitely provide you comfort when seating in hard seats, so as for you to avoid certain unpleasant feeling while driving or simply riding in the car.

Making a stadium cushion (seat) is really a good solution to banish your problem with hard seats. That is why if you are one those people who wish to have comfortable seating, make your own and purchase the following needed materials to start making a stadium cushion (seat) of your own:

1. Vinyl materials / Cloth

2. Vinyl thread

3. Measuring stick or tape

4. Fabric marker

5. Scissors

6. Needle Velcro

7. Foam cell

8. Sewing machine (medium size capacity)

9. Paper

10. Durable – Elastic Plastic Sticks (should be hard enough but not brittle)

11. Garter

Here are the steps that you need to follow in making a cushion (seat).

* Take the measurements of your car seat. With the use of a tape measure get the length of the total surface of the seat and the distance of the backrest from edge to edge.

* Using the measurements that you have taken, make a pattern of the surface of your stadium cushion (seat) in a paper, and then cut out the vinyl basing on your pattern, you should have a partner of vinyl. Do the same process for your backrest.

* After that, sew the vinyl on its three sides leaving one side open to serve as the entry point of the foam cell. Make you to allocate some allowance for the seam. Do the same process for the backrest part.

* Insert the foam cell inside and lock it using the Velcro.

* For the backrest part, cut out the plastic stick equal with the backrest’s measurement. You can also lessen its total length by half so as your stadium cushion seat will not be equal in length with your seat’s backrest. Remember you must have two sticks for the two sides of your stadium cushion that will serve as a supporter.

* Wrap the sticks with the use of the excess vinyl. Tie the vinyl securely and insert the stick in the cushion seat that you have made.

* Finally, bind the backrest and the main stadium cushion seat that you have made where the seams are.