I wanted some unique seat covers to brighten up the cab of my truck a little, so I picked up some MARPAT Woodland camo fabric, broke out the trusty 1958 Singer 401A and went to work.






1958 Singer 401A, picked it up for $10 w/ sewing desk at a thrift store.



The covers are slid over the factory covers, but they fit pretty much like a second skin. I've had them on for a month or so and they're staying tight and not moving around. I've haven't done much sewing before, but I had the machine, saw the fabric on ebay and thought I'd give it a whirl.

 

That looks awesome man, especially with the color of your truck. Ive beent rying ot find some 3 color desert camo seat covers for my truck...I figured 3 color with my tan interior would be pretty awesome.

 

Thanks! I considered the desert MARPAT, but I figured it'd be too much tan. The black in the Woodland goes w/ the black in the interior, and the green adds some color to the interior. I'm hoping the Woodland also hides dirt better (the main reason I wanted a camo pattern).

 

You should go into buisness - Would be a nice one, - on the side

I'd be a customer - Good job ! - I need some pretty bad lol.

 

For the amount of time I have in them, you could buy a much nicer cover. I've got 20-25 hrs in them and I still need to add some pockets and cover the rest of the console (I ran out of cloth). The backs are each made of 9 panels and the seats have about 5 panels each. I made patterns for the panels by tracing the existing panels on clear plastic, so these covers fit like the factory covers.

I threw my TV away a few years ago, so I do stuff like this as a hobby in the evenings instead (more fun and I sometimes actually accomplish something). I was actually amazed that having sewn basically nothing before, I could come up with something somewhat presentable. Having done this little project has given me the confidence to go after my '67 Fairlane seats.

 

A 67! - Nice!

So I have to purchase a sewing Machine ehh? Idk, I'd have to hide that sucker on Poker night -

Yea, I need to do something to the interior, it's looking it's age. A carpet kit and some GOOD seat covers would probably do wonders.

Good Job.

 

The first thing I did was to make a camo cover for the machine to hide it lol.

My boss saw them at work the other day, and his comment was "...you got weird hobbies...". My wife, who sewed a lot when she was younger, was VERY skeptical when I started ("how can you sew anything w/o a pattern") ... when I was done, all she could say was "I can't believe you pulled it off, you don't even know how to sew".

Here's a few other things I made recently (duffel bag has tow ropes/hitch, MARPAT bag has owners manual, small bag on left has code reader/repair CD)

 

67 Fairlane huh? Not bad. 67 was a good year for ford...Ive got a 67 mustang.

I love those bags you made...I would deffinitly pay for something like that in 3 color camo.

 

'67 was a good year for Fords (except the Falcon lol). I drove a '67 F100 for years, I also had a '67 Mustang for a while (straight from Detroit, better known as the Rustang). I also have a '67 Cougar XR-7 (not a Ford, but close) which I got about 1/3 restored before I ran out of money. I've kind of lost interest in the Fairlane lately (I think I've driven it once in the last 6 months). I've talked of selling it, but the wife says "... if you sell it, you'll be sorry down the road ..." She's probably right.

 

You have some weird hobbies!

J/K

Looks good though.

 

those covers look great... better than the ones they sell at Cabellas for like $300 time to go into the business of making them lol

 

haha, my dad and i have talked about selling ours ('66 Fairlane...same body style, minor differences) but can't bring ourselves to do it...it's just been in the family too long.
very impressive work on the seat covers btw!

 

Mmmm I love me a Cougar, especially a XR-7. Those cars are dead sexy.

How much would you charge for some bags like that in 3 color?

 

im really considering trying to tackle a set in ACU, possibly Multicam for mine. im Army branch, and the ACU i have in it now looks good with the silver anyways. but Multicam would bo cool too. i already have a nice set of covers on it now. im almost thinking i could just take those off and sew the ACU fabric directly on those

 

Look at this s**t, we got Martha Stewart up in here. And the product looks good. Gotta give credit to the old singer though.... still puttin it down. My mom has one almost identical, maybe a bit older. Good work man. Can you embroider? That would be the poop. I have a buddy who is an upholster, makes real good money doing custom interiors.