Since we moved in to our home here in Tucson we have wanted to have cushions for the outdoor seating/kitchen area to make it more comfortable to sit either in the cold or the heat.
We bought the Sunbrella last year and the foam this year and hauled it down from Tacoma.
Beverly, my sister, agreed to make the cushions with me helping wherever I could - she is the expert!
So earlier this month Bev came down to spend a few days with us and make the cushions. She brought her older machine and I had a newer machine. We could not get Bev's machine to work with the Sunbrella and after quite a few tries gave up on it.
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| Cutting out the cushions |
We then moved on to our new Singer lightweight machine which did just fine with the fabric. The first two cushions went very well but when Bev was about half way through the third cushion my machine just died. We spent a lot of time working on it doing everything we knew how to do then called Singer who suggested that we open it up - it is well sealed like a lot of products these days - and we tried but were afraid that we were going to break the housing. They didn't know what else to do so Bev and I returned it to Costco and bought the only machine they had on the floor - a different Singer.
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| The Third Machine |
This machine was terrible from the first stitch! The fabric moved around, Bev couldn't make it sew around corners, it jammed, the feeddogs would not adjust to help with the issues. She, a saint, managed to finish the third cushion but it took ten times as long as it should have. Needless to say we returned that machine to Costco also.
The fourth cushion Bev took home with her to sew on one of the machines the family has up there. She also took home the pieces to make our bbq cover.
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| Laying out the bbq cover |
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| Bev and Michael testing out the first cushion |
Bev was so much more patient that I was with the @#$% machine!
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