Easy DIY car seat upholstery sewing repair

[@texasclodcruncher9580]

Love the bowl licking addition. Im guilty of that also. Good video

[@mystixa]

Something that may be helpful.. With the hogrings you can remove them a lot easier, even with just 1 needle nose pliers. You were trying to open the jaws of the hogring, turning the 'o' shape into more of a 'u' shape. Instead grab the ring across the 'o' , contacting 2 sides to give you leverage. Now twist the ring against the item its holding. It works well with 1 pliers on most objects. With something soft like you were using you could use a 2nd pliers to twist against, but its most likely not necessary. I just finished doing this on my seats and once you get the hang of it, its amazing how easy it goes.

[@thejasonofalltrades]

Great tip, thanks!

[@wilkbor]

Great job. I think my favorite part was the brownies.

[@thejasonofalltrades]

I'm pretty sure the brownies were my favorite part, too! ;) Thanks Keefe!

[@nmartin5551]

Very much appreciate the video. I am trying to take the seat covers off of a “modern” bucket seat to recover the seat in an 1984 Toyota camper. Trying to start the removal on the seat back is where I stopped today. The newer seat has a pocket on back bottom. Any suggestions anyone?

[@nainka11]

Hi. have you tried using an "under patch" of material to stitch the seat fabric to...........that way no reduction in the seat material to cause stetching .

[@thejasonofalltrades]

I haven't. I actually haven't done any other auto upholstery since this video. Upholstery isn't the main focus of my sewing, I just wanted to convey how simple the actual sewing part is. Good idea, though! Thanks for watching!

[@grady3130]

Very cool, bro!

[@losxlakers]

Great vid man!!!

[@JIMPONYD]

Great video; how was the brownies? Man I love me some brownies!

[@deltajohnny]

Very well done! :-)

[@davidhutchison3343]

Great job.

[@nainka11]

Thanks, and well done.............Better to wear a mic though.

[@thejasonofalltrades]

Hi, Thanks for the feedback. This is an older video of mine, and while audio is still one of my biggest challenges, I've made some improvements since this was filmed. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@peepers4763]

In a different video you did a quick mention of your wife’s sewing machine. Without touching it and with permission maybe you could do a show and tell. I’m curious what it does do or doesn’t do from any of your other machines. Brand? Model? I’m enjoying you videos from a simple tour or a demo of a machine, right up to car seat upholstery repair. There was one video where you made a simple pouch using hook and loop. Have you made a video inserting a zipper? Where do you buy your the material like rolls denim or heavy duty nylon? The local fabric store carries bolts...

[@thejasonofalltrades]

Hi, My wife sold that machine a few years ago. It was a Husqvarna Viking 875 Quilt machine. She actually traded down to a much less expensive machine, a Brother CX155, that she loves. The Husky was about $2000 brand new, and she had a number of problems with it - all minor, but annoying when you've paid that much. I have a zipper pouch video here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKuUqWt7j8d5Y9E and I'm planning a couple of videos in the very near future that will involve and discuss some zipper tips. I bought my rolls of fabric from a seller on Craigslist, and I got the deal of a lifetime on them. Unless you are currently operating a business where you need that much fabric, I don't recommend buying this kind of quantity (unless you find an incredible deal like I did). A full roll of 1000D Cordura could cost well over $1000 (exact pricing is hard to find). It's very helpful to have such a large supply of fabric to experiment with, but I still end up buying other fabrics in different colors, weights etc. I hope that helps, thanks for watching!

[@geezer4444]

wish i could buy a sewing machine for $13 dollars

[@highwayhobo1275]

Much easier to cut hog rings with sidecut pliers and replace with new hog rings

[@thejasonofalltrades]

That's probably a better way to do it. I didn't have any hog rings handy, but if I were going to be doing a lot of upholstery it would probably be good to have a supply of them. Thanks for the info, and thanks for watching!

[@cmill8465]

5:28 that quick, simple?!??? 75% of the video is u trying to figure out how to take the fabric off!

[@thejasonofalltrades]

Yes. Sometimes I'm really funny. :)

[@vaquero3578]

C Mill - how about you actually listen to what he said at the beginning of the video instead of griping about it when he went to the trouble to upload this to help people like you? he said at the beginning @ 53 seconds "the HARD part is getting to it..."...hence your 75%.

[@tomcrae6381]

Love the dikfit lol

[@thejasonofalltrades]

Thanks! That was the brand of a coach of mine at that time (his name was Rich, hence the name). Thanks for watching!